President Donald Trump on Monday indicated that he wants to reach an agreement with Ukraine to gain access to the country’s rare earth elements as a condition for continuing U.S. support for its war against Russia.
  • AbsentBird@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Britain picked fights with the French, the Spanish, and Austria, then expected their colonies to foot the bill.

    • pmk@lemmy.sdf.org
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      2 days ago

      Isn’t that kind of what colonies are for? Extracting money from land you took from the people who lived there before?

      • AbsentBird@lemm.eeEnglish
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        1 day ago

        If that’s how you treat people you shouldn’t be surprised when they ‘cause a fuss’ and kick you out.