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geopolitics (jē″ō-pŏl′ĭ-tĭks) noun

The study of the relationship among politics and geography, demography, and economics, especially with respect to the foreign policy of a nation.

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America Should Recycle Its Own Rare Earths, Not Grab Ukraine’s: Green measures at home beat bullying abroad.| FP (foreignpolicy.com)
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[–] truthfultemporarily@feddit.org 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Recycling is woke though.

[–] Red_October@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

You're really not going to find a lot of people who actually think bullying Ukraine for their Rare Earth metals is the best solution. Those people either think Ukraine should "Pay back" the US for military help rendered, or want to hurt Ukraine in support of Russia.

[–] realitista@lemm.ee 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

You obviously haven't spent much time over at .ml ;-)

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 11 points 3 months ago

Those are in fact people who want to hurt Ukraine in support of russia

[–] Red_October@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

And proudly so, but I still expect they all have motives beyond what makes the most economic sense, even if their thin excuse says otherwise.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

The problem is that those people aren't in charge. The idiots are running the show and the chief idiot can’t do anything except bully.

[–] barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

At this point, Trump's America should just go fuck itself.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I mean, that's been the case for almost a decade now.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

The US doesn't give a shit about Ukraine's rare earths. That was never anything but a poison pill to manufacture an excuse to let Russia genocide them.