“I told them [Ukraine] that I want the equivalent like $500B worth of rare earth. And they’ve essentially agreed to do that so at least we don’t feel stupid,” Trump said.
“Otherwise, we’re stupid. I said to them we have to — ‘we have to get something. We can’t continue to pay this money,’” he added.
“The Americans helped the most, and therefore the Americans should earn the most,” Zelenskyy said Friday in an interview with Reuters.
Step 1: use soft power to deteriorate diplomatic relationship of two neighboring countries.
Step 2: tell country A to join your military coalition against country B. War ensues.
Step 3: send investment in the form of weapons.
Step 4: get returns on investment as full control over the country.
I guess it’s only slightly more mask-off than imposing austerity policies as a condition for IMF loans
To those in the know. Most people probably have no idea what the IMF actually does.
it’s like a HOI4 exploit strategy, like shadow puppeting…