Asking the Ukraine for rare earth metals in exchange for protection is pretty much right out of the Mafia playbook. You guys can't even claim to be able protect against Russia because you still have no solution to Russia's hypersonic weapons, which Canada, btw, was trying to help you out with years ago already but maybe that didn't work out, or if it did, seems to be completely forgotten about.

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