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Clive Thompson (clive@saturation.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Feb-2025 02:58:50 JST Clive Thompson

A powerful and unsettling post by Timothy Snyder, the historian of tyranny ...
... about Trump's horrific stance towards Ukraine -- i.e. demanding half the profits of Ukraine's mineral rights, *in perpetuity* (among other things) ...
there's too much to quote in here, but the tl;dr is
- it's effectively colonialism
- it rewards Russia
- it massively overstates the aid the US gave to Ukraine ...
- ... and understates the huge benefits the US got
Read the whole thing: https://snyder.substack.com/p/recoup-the-costs
In conversation about a month ago from saturation.social permalink
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1. Screenshot reading: "1. The American demand is of an extraordinary scale. In Kyiv and again in Munich, the Americans proposed that Ukraine concede half of the profits from its mineral rights in perpetuity and from other national resources and from its ports in perpetuity with a lien on everything important -- in This is not really a monetary proposition, let alone a "deal,’ but rather the demand that Ukraine become a permanent American colony. It amounts to blackmail enabled by ongoing Russian nvasion. In effect, the United States is telling Ukraine to concede its resources to the United States, under the threat that American aid will be otherwise withdrawn, and those resources will be taken by Russia." The final three sentences have been highlighted
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  "Recoup the costs"
  
  from Timothy Snyder
  
  The sadism of American policy to war-torn Ukraine

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