America’s support for Ukraine boils down to the eastern European country’s lucrative mineral deposits, Alabama’s senior senator claimed Wednesday.

“It’s all about the minerals over there,” Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., said during an appearance on Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast. “About $11 trillion worth of minerals.”

Ukraine has some of the world’s largest reserves of titanium and iron ore along with massive lithium and coal deposits, the Washington Post reported.

Tuberville made the claim when Bannon asked if there should be investigations into “this criminal conspiracy, particularly in things even like Ukraine …,” referring to President Biden’s term in office.

Tuberville said that after the Biden announced its intention to forgive a $5 billion loan to Ukraine as the country defends itself from a Russian invasion, “some of the senators said, ‘we’ll make that back in the minerals.’”

In an appearance on CBS’ “Face the Nation” in June, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who supports Ukraine, referenced Ukraine’s mineral wealth.

“They’re sitting on $10 trillion to $12 trillion of critical minerals in Ukraine. They could be the richest country in all of Europe. I don’t want to give that money and those assets to [Russian President Vladimir] Putin to share with China,” he said.

Tuberville has been critical of support for Ukraine.

Earlier this year, Tuberville voted against a $95.3 billion aid package to Ukraine and Taiwan.

“We’re $35 trillion in debt with NOTHING to show for it. There’s an invasion at our southern border. Our roads and bridges are falling apart. Our schools systems are getting worse by the day. Our military can’t recruit,” Tuberville posted on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, shortly after the February vote. “And the US Senate just prioritized Ukrainian pensions over Americans.”

In September, the senator called the war “unwinnable” and said Ukraine is “the most corrupt country on the face of the planet,” claiming the conflict puts the world at the brink of nuclear war.

On Wednesday, Tuberville suggested the war has been costly in both dollars and human lives.

“Are you kidding mean? I mean, we got a million people killed over there … the war should’ve never started,” he said.