Ukraine (6 Viewers)

[boutte]

It was a strategic interest, not an economic one. Ukraine doesn’t have much in the way of natural resources, nor do they manufacture

It wasn’t like Iraq with oil. As the sub e, it was expected they would lose. As Tapxe said, the US didn’t start ramping up support until after about a week or so of fighting

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/natural-resources-ukraine-war-1.6467039

Not to mention agriculture.

Ukraine can feed the world

The launch of an agricultural land market will leave Ukraine well placed to assume an ever-greater role in global food security, says Ukraine's Minister of Agrarian Policy Roman Leshchenko.

www.atlanticcouncil.org

 

[Tapxe]

It was a strategic interest, not an economic one. Ukraine doesn’t have much in the way of natural resources, nor do they manufacture

It wasn’t like Iraq with oil. As the sub e, it was expected they would lose. As Tapxe said, the US didn’t start ramping up support until after about a week or so of fighting

I think you are right in terms of oil, but Ukraine had recently been identified for it's large (maybe largest) lithium deposits. An Australian company worked deals and was due to be the battery producer for Europe based upon those deposits.

Before Invasion, Ukraine’s Lithium Wealth Was Drawing Global Attention (Published 2022)

Chinese and Australian investors had been lining up to explore for lithium, a metal that is critical to batteries and the world’s transition to clean energy.

www.nytimes.com

Ukrainian researchers have speculated that the country’s eastern region holds close to 500,000 tons of lithium oxide, a source of lithium, which is critical to the production of the batteries that power electric vehicles. That preliminary assessment, if it holds, would make Ukraine’s lithium reserves one of the largest in the world.

But the Russian invasion has come just as Ukraine, under President Volodymyr Zelensky, was trying to position itself as a major player in the clean energy transition — an evolution for a country that long built its economy on coal, iron, titanium and other legacy industries.

 

[BigFrosty]

 

[efil4stnias]

The RuAF countered thru their own defensive mine fields?

 

[BigFrosty]

 

[BigFrosty]

Bonus round.

 

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[baarbogast]

The RuAF countered thru their own defensive mine fields?

Thats the way I read it.

 

[DaveXA]

It was a strategic interest, not an economic one. Ukraine doesn’t have much in the way of natural resources, nor do they manufacture

It wasn’t like Iraq with oil. As the sub e, it was expected they would lose. As Tapxe said, the US didn’t start ramping up support until after about a week or so of fighting

Ukraine actually has a ton of natural resources. It's partly why Russia invaded them. They won't admit that, but it's true. They do some manufacturing, depending on the industry. They were manufacturing all kinds of heavy industrial equipment prior to the war.

 

[boutte]

Just throw some boards across it. It'll be okay.

 

[baarbogast]

 

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