Ha ha ha ha! You want $500 BILLION from Ukraine's rare earths? BE MY GUEST! (Complex topic - to engage in it - please watch video)

[eclipsenow]

Hi all,
this is the best punchline of the last few months!

To engage in this thread please watch all 18 minutes of our ABC's deep dive investigative journalist - Matt Bevan.​

You'll learn a lot about rare-earths, China, Australia, California, and Texas.

And you'll learn about smart and silly.

 

[Nithavela]

You want people to watch an 18 minute video to engage in a thread which doesn't even specify what it is about?

 

[Hans Blaster]

You want people to watch an 18 minute video to engage in a thread which doesn't even specify what it is about?

It's about a guy named Matt, of course.

 

[eclipsenow]

You want people to watch an 18 minute video to engage in a thread which doesn't even specify what it is about?

It's about rare earths - and how incredibly hard they are to extract at an economic price because despite the 'gold rush' for them - they are not that valuable.

It's about how Ukraine is a totally useless place to go looking for them! You may as well dig up your own backyard soil because they're in that as well. Just not concentrated enough to make it financially competitive with the cheap way China does it.

It's about how 'smart' this Trump Regime is - and how if Zelenskyy HAD said yes - please - give away 20% of my country and you can have all the rare-earths you want you silly, silly man - I'm not sure who would have been the bigger con-artist?

(OK - just joking for hyperbole. OF COURSE it's Trump trying to get the western world to give 20% of Ukraine over to a dictator. But what's new?)