The headline should rather be, "Russia forces Finland, other neighbouring countries to withdraw from landmines treaty." It's very sad that they have do that.
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The next propaganda news. The senior politician Michael Kretschmer - 'not wanted' in Ukraine- also questioned Germany's support and didn't want to deliver weapons to Kyiv in 2022 when the war started.
I don't know, maybe. I am just wondering what this "other agenda" actually is. Undermining Ukraine's EU accession? It's independence? I don't know, but it's good that Zelenskyy has rejected the deal.
According to renowned scientists, Ukraine doesn’t actually have minable Rare Earths.
The contentious 28 February Oval Office meeting can’t be understood without a crucial piece of context: there are no deposits of rare-earth ore in Ukraine known to be minable in an economically viable way. And that would be true even if full-scale warfare were not raging in the country’s east, where a great deal of its mineral resources are concentrated.
Ukraine is believed to have four areas with substantial deposits of rare earth ores, according to Erik Jonsson, senior geologist with the Geological Survey of Sweden. “There are four slightly bigger deposits: Yastrubetske, Novopoltavske, Azovske, and Mazurivske. All but one of them seem to be now within or near the zone that the Russians control, as far as I can tell,” says Jonsson. “And when it comes to resources in those deposits, I mean, we have numbers; yes, that’s nice. But we have no real, detailed, outline of how those numbers were arrived at.” The numbers are believed to come from Soviet surveys dating as far back as the 1960s.
“The rare-earth deposits don’t look that relevant,” Jonsson concludes. “I mean, I wouldn’t go for them.” Two of the deposits are dominated by a mineral called britholite, he notes, which is not desirable because it has not been processed for rare earths, which means that almost nothing exists in the way of process chemistry and equipment.
“If you want critical minerals, Ukraine ain’t the place to look for them,” declares Jack Lifton, executive chairman of the Critical Minerals Institute. “It’s a fantasy. There’s no point to any of this. There’s some other agenda going on here. I can’t believe that anybody in Washington actually believes that it makes sense to get rare earths in Ukraine.”
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You are explicitly accepting here the worst of disinformation (in violation of the comm's rule, btw). And you have been offending people, just read your comments back then.
The argument was more nuanced.
'More nuanced'? You even got offensive as practically all others in this thread back then had a different opinion. People switch to pure propaganda bubbles anyway, whether or not you are explicitly fine with Chinese and Russian propaganda. There's is no excuse for that.
First, not all here are supposedly aware that this media outlet is propaganda, but even if so, there is no need for this garbage imo. And, second, the same user cited Alexandr Dugin, one of Putin's most derailed propaganda figures (who supports Russia's invasion because, according to Dugin, all Ukrainians are 'nazis' - Dugin is one of the Russian figures from whom this and other repugnant slurs come from, used by Russia to justify the war).
That aside, you and me (together wirh a couple of others if I remember that right) had a discussion in another thread some time ago. Back then you, poVoq, argued to explicitly allow propaganda, so I am -unfortunately- not surprised here.
Friendly relations are always good, but China is the same hostile country as before. Nothing has changed. As Mr. Carney says, "We obviously do have a large amount of trade with them[China], but we have to be very careful, very deliberate, and they need to meet Canadian standards.” The same is true for European standards.
China is an active threat to Europe as, for example, it supports Russia in its war against Ukraine, it conducts sabotage and subversion, thus tries to aggressively undermine stability, and attempts to gain influence by controlling global global supply chains and information through technology in order to spread their totalitarian system across the globe.
“There are partners in Asia with whom we can build deeper ties. But the partners in Asia that share our values don’t include China.”
Hybrid Warfare – the coordinated efforts of Russia and China against the West -- (January 2025)
Russia and China are conducting hybrid warfare campaigns against Western nations, leveraging a blend of conventional military assets and non-military tactics, including cyberattacks, disinformation, economic pressure, and exploitation of political and legal systems. These efforts aim to destabilise and weaken adversaries from within.
Russia has been intensifying its sabotage campaigns across the EU, reflecting a significant escalation in hybrid hostilities [...]
China, while maintaining a more covert stance, has recently begun to employ economic coercion, bribery and corruption, along with significant lending and advancements in technology and logistics to influence political parties, subtly but effectively. By integrating itself within essential global supply chains and controlling information through technology, China exerts a soft but potent form of political influence, aimed at swaying the economic and political decisions of target countries [...]
As an addition to what I have already written in this thread (and having read your other comments here), the question is rather what your motive is in publishing this Chinese and Russian authoritarian propaganda like SCMP and Dugin.
What are you doing here?
Alexandr Dugin is a strong supporter of Vladimir Putin who is often referred to as "Putin's brain". Putin's politics and his propganda content echoes Dugin's "philosophy" to a large part. Dugin vocally supported the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014, and since 2022 has supported its full invasion of Ukraine as representing a battle against "absolute Evil, embodied in Western civilisation, its liberal-totalitarian hegemony and in Ukrainian Nazism".
What this man is saying is the worst of extremist and derailed propganda.
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I don't understand the downvotes here.