Comments by "Pantherparatrooper" (@506thparatrooper) on "Silicon Bites #100 - Trump is Mad, Bad and A Clear and Present Danger for Freedom, Law and Democracy" video.

  1. Secretary of State Rubio, "There are newspaper articles out there about how (Joe Biden) cursed at (Zelenskyy) in a phone call because Zelenskyy instead of saying thank you for all your help is immediately out there messaging what we’re not doing or what he’s not getting. Secondly, I was personally very upset because we had a conversation (in Munich) with President Zelenskyy. The US Vice President and I, the three of us and we discussed this issue about the mineral rights. And we explained to them we want to be in a joint venture with you not because we’re trying to steal from your country but because we think that’s actually a security guarantee. If we’re your partner in an important economic endeavor, we get to get paid back some of the money the taxpayers have given, close to $200 billion and we have a vested interest in the security of Ukraine. He said, ‘Sure we want to do this deal. It makes all the sense in the world. The only thing is I need to run it through my legislative process. They have to approve it.’ I read two days later that Zelenskyy is out there saying, ‘I rejected the deal. I told him no way that we’re not doing that.’ That’s not what happened in that meeting. So you get upset by somebody. We’re trying to help these guys.” 21 FEB 2025 No rare earth minerals, no US weapons manufactured.
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  2. You complain about Russian money going to conservative American podcasters funded Russian disinformation. Why are you silent about US government aid going to domestic and Ukrainian media outlets? USAID Funded Ukrainian Media Who funded Ukraine’s free press? One of the many thing that US aid supported was the promotion of a free press around the globe. Ukraine was a massive beneficiary with one American NGO providing support through 536 media outlets in Ukraine. Training over 5,000 journalists. The funds to,do it came from US aid according to one Ukrainian press freedom group." The Hill, youtube 20 FEB 2025
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