Si parla molto di come fare appello "transazionale" Trump. Molti, tra cui il senatore Lindsay Graham, hanno parlato pubblicamente dei ricchi giacimenti di minerali e petrolio/gas dell’Ucraina, compresi metalli rari chiave come il gallio.
La Cina ha appena vietato l’esportazione di gallio, germanio e antimonio negli Stati Uniti.
Mostratelo a Trump. Per un investimento relativamente piccolo in armi (nessun intervento degli Stati Uniti sul terreno), l’America può avere accesso garantito al gallio e a carichi di altri metalli, petrolio e gas.
L’Ucraina ha 15 trilioni di dollari in risorse minerarie!! Confrontatelo con un investimento di 100-300 miliardi di dollari per liberare completamente l’Ucraina. Per non parlare del vantaggio geopolitico di incasinare la Russia.
Ukraine is the world's fifth largest gallium producer — China on Tuesday banned exports to the United States of the critical minerals gallium, germanium and antimony that have widespread military applications
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Holy shit – this may be a blessing in disguise.
There was also graphite.
But graphite as a mineral is too dirty for batteries.
It is just carbon and made by companies like SGL Carbon much more pure.
Germanium has some revival as SiGe semiconductors for high frequency.
Antimony was once used to make the lead for printing harder.
Someone knows what antimony is used for now?
So there should be reserves, even hidden recyclable reserves.
Gallium is really interesting.
There is GaN, GaP, AlInGaP, gallium nitride, gallium phosphide, aluminum indium gallium phosphide.
All materials used in modern light emitting diodes.
folks keep in mind that so called seldom earths are not so seldom as media repeats. There are for sure huge geological differences from continent to continent yet they all came from one big fat chunk of Gondwana and it is rather a question of price, technical accessibility and ecological impact to dig for it. Just recently (actually two years ago) finland announced it tapped into a very huge deposit.
Just make yourself familiar with a simple question.. why does the material come from countries with super low wages and large unused swats of land with very low ecological impact control? see the pattern? now you know.
one historical sidenote: many think russia had and has the largest deposit of uranium. … well not entirely true. A tiny area in east germany called ‘wismut’ (as coverup name) was digging for uranium and all that stuff was transported to – you guessed it – russia for decades. For ecological and economical reasons the extraction ended with the reunification of germany. If the price would fit again.. well, not entirely impossible stuff gets lifted. and so it is with many potential locations.
overplaying their hand … kinda like OPEC in the 70s and the gas crisis.
never threaten a valuable resource when that resource exists elsewhere in equal or greater abundance.
You know what?
I think the West and allies should just do a huge resource survey and supply each other, cut off these scummy unethical suppliers like RuZ and XiNa.
Let them feel the power of customer satisfaction. heheeh
Ukraine is also one of the TOP producers of…………courage.
Which is super rare and valuable.
So, it’s time to commoditize some courage. hehehe
“Transactional??!?”
Trump is not transactional. Not in the slightest. He’s as “transactional” as a Nigerian prince advance-fee scammer. The only two things he wants are to always get something for nothing, and to perform an exaggerated drag performance of a rich and successful businessman.
He is a vain, gullible narcissist whose primary use to those immediately around him is as a conduit for grift. The only transactions he is ever involved in are unwitting ones, whereby he is exploited by others in exchange for flattery.
Trump’s orders are to fuck Ukraine over. He will rationalize any decision he makes to that end after the fact. The only way to stop him is to surround him overwhelmingly with voices saying “no” and blocking him at every turn.