Unconditional Support for Ukraine Will Cost the US Dearly

Military aid, delivered as part of the United States' security assistance to Ukraine, is unloaded from a plane at the Boryspil International Airport outside Kyiv, Ukraine, on Feb. 13, 2022. Serhiy Takhmazov/Reuters

Commentary

If you were asked to name the most important critical mineral in existence, what would you name? Maybe bauxite, a sedimentary rock with a high aluminum content; maybe cobalt, a metal used in the construction of aircraft engines and gas turbines; or maybe lithium, which is used in the production of electric vehicles and energy storage systems.