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“Trump has said he wants a share of “rare earths”, a class of 17 minerals. In fact, Ukraine has few of these. The US president appears to have confused them with rare metals and critical materials, such as lithium and graphite. Alyoshin said there was a further misconception that quick profits could be made. “People think you put a shovel in the ground and dig up money. We have been working on this project for five or six years. With investment we can begin production in 2028,” he said...”
“It’s as if we lost the war to America. This looks to me like reparations,” Volodymyr Landa, a senior economist at the Centre for Economic Strategy thinktank in Kyiv, said. Ukraine’s overall reserves are worth $14.8tn. They include lithium, titanium and uranium, as well as coal, steel, iron ore, and undersea shale gas. Many deposits had not been developed, Landa said, either because they were not feasible or due to political instability.
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‘It’s blackmail’: Ukrainians react to Trump demand for $500bn share of minerals
Ukraine’s lithium deposits are among biggest in Europe and the US is looking for ‘payback’ for previous military assistance
Sat. 22 Feb 2025 07:08 EST
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“There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don’t know we don’t know.”-Donald Rumsfeld
Unknown unknowns:
The potential real world violence of Elon’s Hitler Youth hackers working inside U.S. government.
FED UP Army Vet Files MASSIVE LAWSUIT against Trump
Kris Goldsmith is an Army veteran and CEO of Task Force Butler, an organization that identifies, tracks, and holds accountable extremist organizations and actors. He is a plaintiff in a new lawsuit against the federal government that aims to prevent Elon Musk and DOGE from accessing private information that could be used to target critics of Donald Trump and extremist groups.
"Kash Patel’s confirmation as Director of the FBI is not just another Trump-era power grab—it is a tremendous swing toward the complete politicization of federal law enforcement. This is the moment where the rule of law is officially subordinated to the will of an authoritarian movement.
I fear that very few Americans, including the 49 Senators who just voted against his nomination, truly understand the magnitude of the threat Patel poses to our constitutional rights and way of life.
To be clear, this isn’t to say that these Senators—or the millions of Americans like you who closely follow reputable news sources—aren't well aware of Patel’s history. His open threats against his perceived political enemies, his written and spoken promises to weaponize federal law enforcement, and his role in advancing Trump’s most dangerous authoritarian ambitions are well-documented. What I mean is that unless you’ve been in the room with Patel—while he's in his element, unscripted, and playing to an adoring crowd—unless you’ve seen firsthand how he whips his supporters into a hysterical frenzy, you cannot fully grasp the danger we now face.
That’s why I need to tell you about what I saw in Branson, Missouri.
An Immersive Experience with Kash’s Cult in the ‘Vegas of the Ozarks’
The following account isn’t just drawn from memory—it’s backed by a 24-page intelligence report I compiled after attending the event, along with several hours of footage and over 400 still photos.
The weekend before the 2022 midterm elections, I traveled to Branson, Missouri, on an undercover mission to infiltrate the ReAwaken America Tour as a QAnon-radicalized veteran. This Christian nationalist roadshow, founded by serial grifters Clay Clark and Michael Flynn, is designed to radicalize MAGA diehards into believing they are on a mission from God in a literal war against demonic forces. It’s where former Trump officials, conspiracy theorists, and extremist preachers stand shoulder-to-shoulder, indoctrinating their audience with a singular message: Trump’s return to power is divinely ordained, and their enemies—Democrats, antifascists, journalists—must be crushed.
While researchers and journalists have extensively documented ReAwaken America, including livestreams of the main stage programming, what happens off-camera is even more disturbing. Watching from my office as part of my work in threat analysis was one thing—being there, embedded in the crowd, was something else entirely.
The livestreams boasted eight-hour days, but in reality, the programming was much longer. There were VIP meet-and-greets, private dinners, and after-hours cocktail events where attendees could rub shoulders with their heroes—Trump loyalists, QAnon influencers, and extremist operatives. These were the spaces where Flynn and Clark promised their followers access to “insider knowledge,” drawing them deeper into the movement.
Then there was the vendor tent—a marketplace of extremism where fringe personalities, many too obscure for mainstream media attention, operated as minor celebrities within this alternate reality. These figures, despite their relative anonymity to the outside world, wield enormous influence among their followers.
It was here that I met Michael Flynn Jr., son of the disgraced general, and one of the earliest amplifiers of the Pizzagate conspiracy theory—the claim that Hillary Clinton was trafficking children to harvest their blood. I hadn’t immediately recognized him when I reached out to shake his hand. He introduced himself by referring to his father as “General Flynn,” and we spoke for nearly an hour.
Flynn Jr. was aggrieved. He described his family as victims of a weaponized FBI, lamenting that even Trump’s team had abandoned him after he was fired for spreading conspiracy theories. But what stood out most wasn’t the content of his rant—it was the way he spoke. As he went on about the “deep state’s persecution” of his father and the necessity of building an army for Trump, I could see the occasional pause in his expression. He knew he was lying. He knew the contradictions in his own words. But none of that mattered. He was there for a purpose: to help his father recruit an army.
Inside the Mansion Theater for the Performing Arts, a 3,000-seat venue, Clark bragged from the stage that they had sold 1,000 more tickets than the venue could hold. A quarter of attendees were forced to linger in the vendor spaces at any given time—prey for the grifters.
This was the environment Kash Patel stepped into...
In autocratic regimes, the first step in dismantling democracy isn’t always an outright coup—it’s seizing the institutions that enforce the law. By installing Patel at the helm of the FBI, Trump’s movement has neutralized one of the last remaining checks on its power. This is not an accident; it is a deliberate strategy, one that has played out in authoritarian takeovers throughout history.
Now, as FBI Director, Patel has the ability to ensure that future investigations into corruption, election interference, and abuses of power never even begin.
The law will no longer be applied to the powerful—it will be weaponized against their enemies.
This is the moment where Trump’s cronies have the power to bend federal law enforcement so that it ceases to function as an independent institution. It is now on its way to becoming an enforcement arm of an authoritarian project."
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On Offense with Kris Goldsmith
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FEB 21, 2025
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