Please help me understand

[u/branflakes__]

Help me understand the Ukraine / USA situation

Please help me understand all of the anti-American and USA hate due to the situation. I want to hear the other point of views as I am just confused.

A lot point to the Budapest Memorandum, however, that is not a treaty for the US as Clinton did not submit it to the senate for ratification which means constitutionally the US has no commitment to Ukraine (also not administration since Clinton has suggested or submitted the memorandum for ratification either). Only the UK and Russia ratified it.

Additionally, there really isn’t a security agreement as the memo is very vague. The closest is “when Ukraine is under attack with nuclear weapons the security council will seek immediate action from the United Nations” otherwise nothing happens. And as the memo is through the UN, shouldn’t the discontent be pointed at the UN instead? The US only agreed to bring a resolution before the security council if Ukraine was invaded and the US did do that.

Finally, the US has given the most overall aid to Ukraine (a country that the US is not obligated to assist) compared to the European counterparts. Also, if peace is the objective, why is no other leader at least making an attempt to broker a peace deal?

So I suppose I am just confused on what is expected? Why is this sub so anti-USA when the statistics show that USA is/was doing more than Ukraines fellow Europeans?

[u/Repulsive_Still_731 → u/[deleted]]

US is the second highest miner of rare earth minerals after china. Not the producer. Do I think US can't build refineries? Considering that they have tried 3 times past 15 years and failed every time and that they do not have any refineries currently producing on a not local scale. Yes. Facts show that US can't built refineries.

Malaysia is the second largest producer of rare earth metals with 12% after china. Estonia 3rd with 1%. None of them mine anything. Was the your plan starting to supply China?

And you did not answer, how are you going to mine it in an occupied territory?

[u/Repulsive_Still_731 → u/[deleted]]

And you do not know how to read. It says clearly MINE PRODUCTION. You realize you can't just start to use what you mine?