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Originally Posted by 80stech
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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Rare earth metals are mostly from China (an adversary) and after the US has given Ukraine 4 1/2 times the amount of all the other countries combined it sure seems more like getting something for all the funds and weapons we've provided. Getting a needed item from an adversary is bad, just ask Europe about natural gas from Russia...
As for hypersonic weapons the US 1st started on them in the 70s and did have a surface to space nuke that was the fastest around, I have actually had to work on them (trainer versions) as it's a mandatory thing. You don't want to try to disarm a nuke for real without ever practicing before...
The Russian version is not that special or that fast compared to other weapons coming out of NEO.
As for going against Russia... If it's conventional warfare, we'd put their dick in the dirt fast. Ukraine had shit for equipment, training and experience and they've held the Russians pretty much at bay for years, while we've had 20 years of combat and for the most part top of the line equipment. I am very certain of our military just because I've stacked bodies from the conflicts in Panama all the way through Afghanistan and Iraq.
I would say that most of what people are seeing and not understanding is that the American People are fed up with paying for other countries equipment, training and providing military for in others defense for the only thing to happen is those countries get to use more of their GDP to progress but we have to go slower or even deeper in debt to maintain just the status quo.
I don't really have an issue with Canada but as an example Canada uses the proximity to the US for not needing much ofba military. The entire Canadian military is smaller that the amount of troops and equipment maintained at Ft. Hood, Texas.
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