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s nukes and those are not a deterrent to being invaded. Like what are they actually buying weapons to do? Are they buying weapons so that they don't have to use their nukes if Russia tries to roll over Europe and take over the UK? Has Russia ever shown, give me a history lesson, has Russia ever shown interest in conquering any country that wasn't really either Russian-speaking or had some obvious…

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can do it.

So JD Vance was explaining how the mineral deal would have been better than a security guarantee. And he said the president knows that look if you want real security guarantees, if you want to actually ensure that Putin does not invade Ukraine again, the very best security guarantee is to give Americans economic upside in the future of Ukraine. That is a way better security guarantee than here comes his diss, I love how JD just slaps down other entities because this is way better security guarantee than 20,000 troops from some random country that hasn't fought a war in 30 or 40 years. Wow that's how he talks about our allies. Well okay I like it. And I agree. The only thing that protects you is that the country that has the big guns has a personal interest. So if we've got a lot of money on the line, I mean this could be a trillion dollars you know in these mining deals, yeah that would be a good way to guarantee that we're interested.

And by the way if you're Russia and we said to you don't attack Ukraine because you know we'll go in and protect them we gave them a security guarantee would that be stronger than saying you better not go into Ukraine because we've got a trillion dollars riding there and we're not going to let that just be taken over so if you go in we're going to protect our interests. Doesn't that sound the same? The one where you say we're going to protect our own economic interest that sounds like the more real one because everybody protects th

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eir own economic interest. If you said oh we're going to go protect this country on the other side of the world that doesn't have a direct impact on us even if we meant it it's not terribly persuasive. But if you say we're not going to give up a trillion dollars in mining operations which are critical to our most important industries like AI and self-driving cars and robots, we're not going to giv…

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