Awesome :D I wish I was that cool, I was just really always excited when they came up. And I brought my stuffed panda around with me everywhere then ~~(regrettably the friend did not live till adulthood or for much longer, "died" sometime between the two documents this is involved in- family was a fuck~~).
I was absolutely a irrepressible thug (in a "do not poke goblin" sense, not a bully/etc sense) of a grade schooler, though.
Thanks! Won't have any prob remembering this I suspect (the panda fascination has simmered down or been joined by other fascinations, but the love and respect remains and is eternal)

stereotype panderer.
This was already the reality on paper, the only difference is Trump is saying it out loud.
Blackrock and other US corporate giants basically own Ukraine at this point. Zelensky himself has talked about how Ukraine "takes credit" and the Banderite state literally runs its own official site to auction off state assets to western vultures.
That said, this is as good as it gets (IMO). The leader of the ""free world"" is going mask-off as a naked imperialist, but the mineral wealth lies safely in the hands of Russia and the global majority (as it is concentrated in eastern former Ukraine) and therefore will not enrich the west.