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Comment by belter

8 days ago

You have seen nothing yet. Next he will want a mineral deal with each country to pay back the money they stole from the USA in the past. "Primate Behavior Reference 21": https://youtu.be/GhxqIITtTtU

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ggm  8 days ago

We even have aspiring leadership in Australia who see this as a win win and have proposed offering JV in uranium, lithium and rare earths. Murdoch press backs the idea, even when criticism of Trump is overt they always go to "we need him more than they need us" because of 50+ years of Defense posture which assumes we're insured by US forces.

  • GuestFAUniverse  8 days ago

    What posture? Contracts with either Russia, or the US are worthless. E.g. the Budapest Memorandum?

    " According to the three memoranda, Russia, the U.S., and the U.K. confirmed their recognition of Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine becoming parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and effectively removing all Soviet nuclear weapons from their soil, and that they agreed to the following:

    1. Respect the signatory's independence and sovereignty in the existing borders (in accordance with the principles of the CSCE Final Act).

    2. Refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of the signatories to the memorandum, and undertake that none of their weapons will ever be used against these countries, except in cases of self-defense or otherwise in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.

    3. Refrain from economic coercion designed to subordinate to their own interest the exercise by Ukraine, the Republic of Belarus, and Kazakhstan of the rights inherent in its sovereignty and thus to secure advantages of any kind.

    4. Seek immediate Security Council action to provide assistance to the signatory if they "should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used".

    5. Not to use nuclear weapons against any non–nuclear-weapon state party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, except in the case of an attack on themselves, their territories or dependent territories, their armed forces, or their allies, by such a state in association or alliance with a nuclear weapon state.

    6. Consult with one another if questions arise regarding those commitments. "