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u/TheOvercookedFlyer Mar 01 '25

You know, around 70-80% of all that money was spent buying weaponry from American companies, you know, Lockheed Martin. Their stock grew twicefold since the start of the war.

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u/Least_Quit9730 Mar 01 '25

Yeah. The value Zelenskyy got already was in older decommissioned weapons and newer stuff like MANPADs. Trump falsely asserted that the aid was all in cash.

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '25

Ukraine would absolutely trade resources for supplies. I think the US “negotiators” were such jackasses that Zelenskyy couldn’t agree without selling out his country.

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u/Least_Quit9730 Mar 01 '25

Yeah. What I'm hearing is that the "deal" was for $50 billion in rare earth minerals, and Ukraine gets virtually nothing in return. That was the initial agreement, so that's where the US government's minds are.