WTH Extra! Who Gets Ukraine’s $26 Trillion In Gas and Minerals? Dany and Marc Discuss
What the Hell Is Going On
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🗓️ 23 December 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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In this episode of WTH Extra! Dany and Marc discuss Marc’s column in the Washington Post, Does Trump want Putin to get Ukraine’s $26 trillion in gas and minerals? Ukraine is a mineral superpower, with some of the largest reserves of 117 of the 120 most widely used minerals in the world. And with the help of U.S. assistance, Ukraine has successfully defended roughly 80 percent of its known mineral deposits. If the U.S. continues to help Ukraine secure and develop its natural minerals, we can not only deal a strategic blow to Beijing and Moscow, but also bring enormous financial benefits back to the American people.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by the American Enterprise Institute. |
| 0:03.1 | If you like what you hear, please subscribe, rate, review, and share. Thanks for listening. Here's our show. What the hell's going on? What the hell is going on? What the hell is going on? I don't know what the hell he's talking about. You don't have to know what the hell is on it. What hell's the matter with these guys? We don't know what's going on. What hell's going on? |
| 0:01.1 | Who in God's name knows what it's all about. |
| 0:29.4 | Hi, I'm Danielle Pletco. |
| 0:31.2 | And I'm Mark Thiessen. |
| 0:32.3 | Welcome to our podcast. |
| 0:33.6 | What the hell is going on? |
| 0:36.0 | But extra. |
| 0:37.4 | Mark, what the hell is extra this week? Well, what the hell is going on? But extra. Mark, what the hell is extra this week? |
| 0:40.1 | Well, what the hell is going on is you're down and laying down under. So if folks, if you start hearing Danny's Australian accent kick in, it's because she's amongst her people. |
| 0:49.0 | I am. I'm with my peoples. |
| 0:50.8 | There you go. The other thing that's going on is we're doing an episode of what the hell did I write this week, because I had a big essay in the Washington Post this week, talking about Donald Trump's great critique of the Iraq war was we shouldn't have gone in, but if we did go in, we should have gotten the oil. Well, Ukraine has a lot of minerals. It's a mineral superpower, and it's got trillions and trillions of |
| 1:12.1 | dollars of critical minerals that we need, as well as shale gas and oil and other things. |
| 1:17.2 | And Vladimir Putin wants those things. So I decided to do a little bit of a deep dive into |
| 1:22.4 | what exactly does Ukraine have? And why would we want to make sure it didn't fall into the hands of |
| 1:28.7 | Russia and China? So what prompted you to do this? It was interesting. Obviously, |
| 1:33.2 | you know, I know, but I think our listeners would like to know, what made you think about this? |
| 1:38.0 | Because it seems to me that one of the weaknesses of national security strategy in a lot of instances is that we really |
| 1:49.1 | only think about the sort of State Department foreign ministry perspective. In other words, |
| 1:54.8 | bad that Russia is invading or bad that the Taliban and Al-Qaeda have taken over Afghanistan. |
| 1:59.9 | But we don't necessarily think |
| 2:01.8 | about the economic issues. We don't necessarily think about the other factors that might |
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