🧵 1/ If you’ve digested Parts 1 and 2, you’re probably starting to get a sense of where this is headed. And if you think this is all just theory, let’s take a look at Ukraine, where we can already see this resource-grabbing scheme playing out in real time. Lets roll: x.com/EiWasDann/s...
2/ At first, #Ukraine didn’t play any geopolitical role for Trump at all. He simply didn’t care about it, but he had a score to settle with the country (#Hunter Biden). Then, however, the businessman in him sensed a huge money-making opportunity and a historically unique chance for blackmail.
3/ Think back to early 2024. For months, the MAGA #Republicans blocked vital aid. This wasn’t just domestic political squabbling. It was a deliberate attempt to starve Ukraine into a state of vulnerability, making it ripe for attack and as susceptible to blackmail as possible ⤵️
Republicans ‘shameful’ for blocking Ukraine aid, says Australia’s Tony Abbott

Ex-Australian PM says U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson has been “all politics and no statesmanship.”

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4/ And then the mask slipped. Remember Senator Lindsey #Graham. He suddenly stood there and spoke quite bluntly about the 10 to 12 trillion (!) dollars’ worth of critical minerals and natural resources lying beneath Ukrainian soil.
5/ It was clear where this was headed. Trump is using straight-up #Mafia tactics here: protection and weapons are now only available in exchange for mining rights, mineral deals, and the complete sell-off of your national resources to U.S. corporations.
6/ But it gets even more devious. Because Trump is playing both sides. While he blackmails Kyiv, he’s simultaneously making backroom deals with the other oligarch, Pootin, who’s offering him raw materials at rock-bottom prices. They’re simply dividing up the best cuts among themselves. #Wittkoff ⤵️
Putin offers Russian and Ukrainian rare minerals to US

The proposal to give the US access to minerals would also include those from territories taken from Ukraine.

7/ Pootin wants at least the eastern territories up to the Dnipro, the coastlines, the Black Sea, and the vast agricultural and coal-mining areas for his self-sufficient ruZZian stronghold. Trump grants him this. In return, there are lucrative global deals and Pootin’s cooperation on other fronts ⤵️
Ukraine’s Assessment of Russian Operational Objectives By the End of 2026, Published On June 5, 2025 By Ukrainian Presidential Office Deputy Head Colonel Pavlo Palisa

A Map of Ukraine’s Assessment of Russian Operational Objectives By the End of 2026, Published On June 5, 2025 By Ukrainian Presidential Office Deputy Head Colonel Pavlo Palisa, produced by the Institute for the Study of War

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8/ Ukraine is effectively being sacrificed on the altar of resources. What’s left belongs to U.S. corporations; the rest goes to ruZZia. And that brings us to the next item on the menu: #Europe and #NATO.
9/ If you still believe the nonsense that Trump is only concerned with the “2% target” when it comes to #NATO - sorry, but wake up. He WANTS to dismantle NATO because it stands in the way of his new “Greater North America” business model.