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Jonathan19
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Dope one! I din't watch any Marvel after Endgame (Din't intrest me after this) but this one was so good
You really missed out on the iX3 product placement in Shang-Chi.
Was it what you expected?
WBarnes
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Certainly wouldn't have expected Texas and Cali fighting on the same side.
Alien: Romulus (Disney+) - One of the best Aliens movies.
I think the way they united both states by having the cause of the conflict being the president disregarding the constitution to get another term worked well...
... though in real-life, it appears the majority of American voters don't actually seem to care about the constitutional restrictions on presidency... so maybe Civil War gave Americans too much credit.
KiwiRob
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They should make every single America alive today watch this film. Sadly at least half of them wouldn't get it.
WBarnes
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Sound of Freedom - Very moving story that is actually based on a real life event.
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WBarnes
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He keeps repeating that $350bn figure, no matter how many times it's been fact-checked as a lie, both before and after the election.
America has elected to support Russia in the Ukraine conflict, it won't be the first or last time America is on the wrong side of history, but - to keep this relevant to the thread - Civil War focused on how Americans interact with their constitution, not their foreign policy, and that's why it works so well as a film.
WBarnes
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I'm surprised the secret service stuck with the President until the end.
KiwiRob
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They keep on sending mixed signal, the Cheeto inked a deal for Ukrainian rare earths. Don't understand this since the US Geological Survey reports from a few years back clearly states there are limited recoverable resources, and nowhere near $500b of them
WBarnes
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There's >$8tr, all of which happen to be in the SE where Russia is invading, rather than the NE, which is where they would have taken if it was really about security.
KiwiRob
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Those are mineral deposits not rare earth deposits.
spectrum.ieee.org
Ukraine Doesn’t Actually Have Minable Rare Earths
To begin with, the contentious 28 February Oval Office meeting can’t be understood without a crucial piece of context: there are no deposits of rare-earth ore in Ukraine known to be minable in an economically viable way. And that would be true even if full-scale warfare were not raging in the country’s east, where a great deal of its mineral resources are concentrated.
Ukraine is believed to have four areas with substantial deposits of rare earth ores, according to Erik Jonsson, senior geologist with the Geological Survey of Sweden. “There are four slightly bigger deposits: Yastrubetske, Novopoltavske, Azovske, and Mazurivske. All but one of them seem to be now within or near the zone that the Russians control, as far as I can tell,” says Jonsson. “And when it comes to resources in those deposits, I mean, we have numbers; yes, that’s nice. But we have no real, detailed, outline of how those numbers were arrived at.” The numbers are believed to come from Soviet surveys dating as far back as the 1960s.
“The rare-earth deposits don’t look that relevant,” Jonsson concludes. “I mean, I wouldn’t go for them.” Two of the deposits are dominated by a mineral called britholite, he notes, which is not desirable because it has not been processed for rare earths, which means that almost nothing exists in the way of process chemistry and equipment.
oilprice.com
The United States is pinning its hopes on reclaiming expenses incurred on Ukraine during its war with Russia by tapping Ukraine’s vast mineral potential including the development of rare earth element deposits.
The problem with this deal is two-fold: one, the deposits in question are mostly within Russian-occupied territory; and two, rare earths are difficult to find lumped together in economic quantities, and even harder to separate into rare earth oxides, that are used in everything from cell phones to electric vehicles to high-tech weaponry.
However, despite all the hype about rare earths in Ukraine, the country doesn’t even make the top 12 countries ranked by the US Geological Survey as having the largest rare-earth mineral reserves. These countries are, in order, China, Brazil, India, Australia, Russia, Vietnam, the US, Greenland, Tanzania, South Africa, Canada and Thailand.
It's just another one of Trumps idiotic deals for his base to get excited about.
Oval Office Outburst Reveals Flaws in U.S.-Ukraine Rare Earth Minerals Deal
A chaotic Oval Office press conference on Feb. 28 revealed a nonsensical U.S.-Ukraine deal for rare earths, baffling experts who knew Ukraine lacks viable deposits. Is Trump’s rare-earth strategy misguided political theater? With China dominating the market, why ignore U.S. resources...
spectrum.ieee.org
To begin with, the contentious 28 February Oval Office meeting can’t be understood without a crucial piece of context: there are no deposits of rare-earth ore in Ukraine known to be minable in an economically viable way. And that would be true even if full-scale warfare were not raging in the country’s east, where a great deal of its mineral resources are concentrated.
Ukraine is believed to have four areas with substantial deposits of rare earth ores, according to Erik Jonsson, senior geologist with the Geological Survey of Sweden. “There are four slightly bigger deposits: Yastrubetske, Novopoltavske, Azovske, and Mazurivske. All but one of them seem to be now within or near the zone that the Russians control, as far as I can tell,” says Jonsson. “And when it comes to resources in those deposits, I mean, we have numbers; yes, that’s nice. But we have no real, detailed, outline of how those numbers were arrived at.” The numbers are believed to come from Soviet surveys dating as far back as the 1960s.
“The rare-earth deposits don’t look that relevant,” Jonsson concludes. “I mean, I wouldn’t go for them.” Two of the deposits are dominated by a mineral called britholite, he notes, which is not desirable because it has not been processed for rare earths, which means that almost nothing exists in the way of process chemistry and equipment.
Ukraine Rare Earths Deal Is Nonsense To Mining Experts | OilPrice.com
Despite the risks and limited returns, a minerals-for-reconstruction deal appears to be moving forward.
oilprice.com
The United States is pinning its hopes on reclaiming expenses incurred on Ukraine during its war with Russia by tapping Ukraine’s vast mineral potential including the development of rare earth element deposits.
The problem with this deal is two-fold: one, the deposits in question are mostly within Russian-occupied territory; and two, rare earths are difficult to find lumped together in economic quantities, and even harder to separate into rare earth oxides, that are used in everything from cell phones to electric vehicles to high-tech weaponry.
However, despite all the hype about rare earths in Ukraine, the country doesn’t even make the top 12 countries ranked by the US Geological Survey as having the largest rare-earth mineral reserves. These countries are, in order, China, Brazil, India, Australia, Russia, Vietnam, the US, Greenland, Tanzania, South Africa, Canada and Thailand.
It's just another one of Trumps idiotic deals for his base to get excited about.
