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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) struggled to count Thursday after she said there were "two reasons" for wars — but then cited four.
Greene made her observation while explaining why she opposed supporting Ukraine's fight against an invasion by Russia.
"There's two important reasons why we oftentimes see wars break out like Ukraine and other wars in the Middle East," the lawmaker said during an interview with Real America's Voice.
"That's because it's always over energy, trade, commerce, and power struggles."
"That's when you see these conflicts. The unfortunate part for the American people is they're forced to pay for it, and they don't want to pay for it," she continued.
Although Greene supports a "peace" plan that would likely allow Russia to keep large swaths of Ukraine, she said the country had natural resources that were important for Americans.
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"Here's my concerns about Ukraine," she said. "You know, they have a massive reserve of rare-earth minerals. And this is the future industry that, and especially the energy that we need for, you know, chip manufacturing, semiconductors, important critical parts that create the very things that we survive with."
"But we're seeing that that war is largely over that section in Ukraine in the Donbas region," she said, referring to an area of Ukraine that has a massive amount of coal reserves.