Donald Trump's fight with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky in the White House reflected how the US treats Ukraine as a colony. Trump is demanding control of the country's rare earths and critical minerals, to weaken China, re-industrialize, and make new technologies. Trump wants to be paid $350 billion, roughly twice Ukraine's GDP. Ben Norton discusses Washington's economic colonialism, and Republican Senator Lindsey Graham's comments that "this war is about money" and the USA will "enrich ourselves with rare earth minerals".

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0:00 (CLIP) Trump fights with Zelensky

0:21 Trump treats Ukraine like a colony

1:07 (CLIP) Trump: Ukraine has no cards

1:51 Throwing Ukraine under the bus

2:14 Economic colonialism

3:36 (CLIP) Trump wants Ukraine's rare earths

4:43 Lindsey Graham says quiet part loud

4:58 (CLIP) Ukraine has trillions in minerals

5:34 US wants minerals

6:03 (CLIP) Graham: "This war is about money"

6:53 Colonialism

7:05 Toxic effects of rare earth elements

8:42 US attacks China in supply chains

9:54 Dividing Russia & China

10:22 (CLIP) Trump: split Russia from China

10:40 Making weapons

11:10 (CLIP) Trump: make tech & weapons

11:43 USA targets China

12:31 Trump's Ukraine mineral demands

14:20 Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent

14:48 US-Ukraine fund

16:57 How much will USA be paid?

18:03 Zelensky proposed mineral stake

19:01 US Fed oversees Iraq's oil revenue

20:07 Billionaires run Trump admin

20:36 Kissinger: fatal to be US ally

21:10 What does Ukraine get?

22:32 (CLIP) Trump on military support

23:29 Trump boasts of arming Ukraine

24:20 (CLIP) Trump on Ukraine aid

24:36 False $350 billion aid claim

26:41 Why Zelensky was angry

27:08 JD Vance, Peter Thiel puppet

27:39 (CLIP) JD Vance: thank the US empire

28:06 Ukraine "card game"

28:26 (CLIP) Trump gives orders to Ukraine

28:38 Trump erases US culpability

29:37 (CLIP) Trump: thank US military

29:55 Trump boasts of Javelin missiles

30:27 (CLIP) Trump vs Obama on Ukraine

31:00 NATO fought to the last Ukrainian

31:19 (CLIP) The last Ukrainians

31:30 US hypocrisy

31:56 Lindsey Graham attacks Zelensky

32:37 (CLIP) Graham on Zelensky

33:01 Ukraine as a US "investment"

33:47 (CLIP) US tells Zelensky to resign

33:54 True face of USA

34:07 WWII UK debt with US

35:11 It's fatal to be a US "ally"

36:26 Outro