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Isn't that exactly why Russia invaded to begin with, to steal minerals?
Russia is a huge country has plenty of minerals and a low population. Trading people for more minerals isn't exactly in Russia's interest.
No, Russia stated that NATO membership for Ukraine was a red line, so their goal is to either prevent membership or demillitarize Ukraine entirely, and they have the means and will to continue until those objectives are met. That's really all it boils down to.
The Kremlin says whatever suits its needs at any given moment. Of course, they've called NATO membership for Ukraine a "red line"—just as they've claimed Ukraine is full of Nazis, that the U.S. started the war, and that up is down and red is blue.
Putin lies with every word he speaks. His statements are meaningless; his actions tell the real story. He is an imperialist obsessed with his own legacy, determined to be remembered as one of Russia’s greatest leaders. His ambitions are monstrous, and he will stop at nothing—no matter the cost in human lives—to achieve them.
Russia/NATO relations predate the Russian Federation's existence.
Of course, Russia/NATO relations predate the Russian Federation—just as imperialist ambitions in Russia predate Putin. But history isn't an excuse for present-day aggression. Whatever the past, the reality now is that Putin's actions are not about NATO; they are about control, power, and his own legacy. He isn't reacting to a genuine security threat—he is manufacturing one to justify his war.
NATO expansion didn’t force Russia to invade Ukraine. Ukraine wasn’t on the verge of joining NATO when the full-scale invasion began. Putin made that decision because he saw Ukraine slipping out of his influence, not because of any immediate NATO threat. His goal isn't just to stop NATO expansion; it's to erase Ukrainian sovereignty entirely.
Do you have anything to back that up, or is it just vibes? You can dislike or hate Putin while also believing that Occam's Razor applies, and having a hostile Millitary Alliance on Russia's doorstep could be seen as aggression by NATO towards Russia from the Russian POV.
Why do you think that what Russia says is true?
Russia said they didn't poison Alexei Navalny in 2020, but they did. They said they didn't kill Alexander Litvinenko, and they said they didn't poison Sergei Skripal, but they did both of those things.
I trust Occam's Razor, this is consistent with what has happened in the past regarding Russia/NATO relations since NATO's formation as an anticommunist millitary alliance against the USSR, a history continued into the modern Russian Federation even after the adoption of Capitalism.
Occam's razor would dictate that Russia is probably lying if they say they're not interested in Ukrainian minerals, given that the Kremlin has lied about pretty much everything for a long time.
Putin is even saying he wants to sell minerals from Russian-occupied Ukraine to the US. Clearly he wants to profit from minerals in Ukraine.
Occam's razor doesn't mean "the view that contradicts my prejudices the least". What you consider more or less likely has jack shit to do with it, learn what terms mean.
You do realize that you just contradicted yourself, right? Why do you believe Putin when he says he wants to profit from minerals in Ukraine? Wouldn't your belief in Russia as only lying mean that he actually doesn't want to sell Ukrainian minerals to the US?
Russia can and does lie. It also tells the truth. Analyzing historical trends and motivations is important for figuring out what is actually going on, rather than just assuming the opposite of whatever Russia says. That's not Occam's Razor, that's analytical nihilism.
I didn't say Russian only lies. I said Russia "has lied about pretty much everything for a long time". That is not the same thing.
I'm not just assuming the opposite of Russia's statements. I'm drawing a best guess conclusion based on two premises:
I think it's likely that mineral wealth would have been part of the Kremlin's motivation to invade. Along with general megalomania and irredentism.
Certainly you can see how the statement that "Russia has lied about pretty much everything" can be seen as "Russia always lies," right?
Either way, I still don't see why NATO expansionism would not be the primary factor, given that that has been a huge part of Russian geopolitics since back when they were still Socialist. Mineral access could be a secondary factor, but that doesn't explain minerals being absent from the peace deal proposed by Russia near the beginning of the war, which instead focused on NATO.
It seems more likely that as Ukraine and the US rejected the Russian-proposed peace deals, Russia has seen that as an additional opportunity to recoup some of the cost of the war through going for minerals as a secondary objective.
No, it was because they didn't want a bordering nation to join a hostile military alliance.
And oil
If the war was purely economical it would have ended by now
Russia hasn’t seized those materials yet and they still believe they can so the war will continue.
Funny way of going about it, given that they've offered terns of peace every few months and negotiated a ceasefire that the US and its vassal the UK vetoed (hmmm 🤔) a few months in.
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Still looking for a valid source on your claim...
They're quoting people who were at the negotiations and when Johnson vetoed the deal, evidence doesn't become more true or less true because it's posted by a billionaire's paper.
But if you like, you can pretend NBC quoted an anonymous source who said it. Or just look for Arakhamia+"do not sign anything with them" and do your own cross referencing instead of sealioning.
And Im asking for you to establish that those quotes are legitimate by backing them with a source that theoretically does not have a built in bias.
Im asking for you to back your claim with a more valid source because People’s World is equivalent to Fox Cable News when it comes to built in bias
All sources have a built in bias jfc. If you think you've seen an unbiased source that just means you're not self aware enough to recognize that it's just your bias