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The West owns enough potential mines, the problem is that they don’t care about developing them. Instead they’ll sit on the land for a few years and then sell it on. Also, the problem isn’t the availability of the metals but the processing. China does the processing, and as such they have to buy from China.
“Battle for Resources” is only a partial truth. The resources or rather productive forces will remain underdeveloped as long as capitalists can inflate their spreadsheets through the virtual economy and hiking prices in the short term.
I thought it is because of freedom and morality. Which motives could the west have if not those noble ones
Yeah, but what’s more noble than granting Blackrock the freedom to plunder the resources of Ukraine.
You probably wanted to say that Blackrock got the opportunity granted to secure valuable resources in the quest to protect freedom in eastern Europe against the successor of Hitler aka Putler, who is performing a genocide in his ambition to conquer the whole free world with his communist, fraught with criminal energy, friends from the everlasting collapsing CCP.
Without those valuable resources, orcs would march over Berlin and Paris till Madrid and create a dictatorship, where every citizen would be forced to eat Pelmeni for dinner.
The West: Yeah, Ukraine has mountains of mineral wealth, but umm, we don’t even want it. But Russia does! So we need to get those strategic resources so Pootler and Xi cannot finish their evil plans or something!
Russia: Pfft, you call that mineral wealth?
