Aprominent US lawmaker has referred to Ukraine as a “gold mine”, insisting the West must maintain access to its estimated $12 trillion worth of critical minerals.
US Senator Lindsey Graham made these comments in a June 10 interview on the CBS program “Face the Nation”.
“They’re sitting on $10 to $12 trillion of critical minerals in Ukraine”, Graham said.
“They could be the richest country in all of Europe. I don’t want to give that money and those assets to Putin to share with China”, he added.
Graham, a Republican, recalled that, when Donald Trump was president, he sent Ukraine military aid in the form of loans.
The senator strongly implied that Ukraine should pay the West for weapons shipments with its large mineral reserves.
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