Donald Trump's fight with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky in the White House reflected how the US treats Ukraine as a colony. Trump is demanding control of the country's rare earths and critical minerals, to weaken China, re-industrialize, and make new technologies. Trump wants to be paid $350 billion, roughly twice Ukraine's GDP. Ben Norton discusses Washington's economic colonialism, and Republican Senator Lindsey Graham's comments that "this war is about money" and the USA will "enrich ourselves with rare earth minerals".
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Topics
0:00 (CLIP) Trump fights with Zelensky
0:21 Trump treats Ukraine like a colony
1:07 (CLIP) Trump: Ukraine has no cards
1:51 Throwing Ukraine under the bus
2:14 Economic colonialism
3:36 (CLIP) Trump wants Ukraine's rare earths
4:43 Lindsey Graham says quiet part loud
4:58 (CLIP) Ukraine has trillions in minerals
5:34 US wants minerals
6:03 (CLIP) Graham: "This war is about money"
6:53 Colonialism
7:05 Toxic effects of rare earth elements
8:42 US attacks China in supply chains
9:54 Dividing Russia & China
10:22 (CLIP) Trump: split Russia from China
10:40 Making weapons
11:10 (CLIP) Trump: make tech & weapons
11:43 USA targets China
12:31 Trump's Ukraine mineral demands
14:20 Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent
14:48 US-Ukraine fund
16:57 How much will USA be paid?
18:03 Zelensky proposed mineral stake
19:01 US Fed oversees Iraq's oil revenue
20:07 Billionaires run Trump admin
20:36 Kissinger: fatal to be US ally
21:10 What does Ukraine get?
22:32 (CLIP) Trump on military support
23:29 Trump boasts of arming Ukraine
24:20 (CLIP) Trump on Ukraine aid
24:36 False $350 billion aid claim
26:41 Why Zelensky was angry
27:08 JD Vance, Peter Thiel puppet
27:39 (CLIP) JD Vance: thank the US empire
28:06 Ukraine "card game"
28:26 (CLIP) Trump gives orders to Ukraine
28:38 Trump erases US culpability
29:37 (CLIP) Trump: thank US military
29:55 Trump boasts of Javelin missiles
30:27 (CLIP) Trump vs Obama on Ukraine
31:00 NATO fought to the last Ukrainian
31:19 (CLIP) The last Ukrainians
31:30 US hypocrisy
31:56 Lindsey Graham attacks Zelensky
32:37 (CLIP) Graham on Zelensky
33:01 Ukraine as a US "investment"
33:47 (CLIP) US tells Zelensky to resign
33:54 True face of USA
34:07 WWII UK debt with US
35:11 It's fatal to be a US "ally"
36:26 Outro
