Posted on 05/12/2025 9:22:42 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed a law ratifying the agreement on mineral resources between the United States and Ukraine, APA reports, citing Unian.
It should be noted that on May 1, Washington and Kyiv signed an agreement granting the US access to Ukraine’s mineral reserves. The Ukrainian Parliament later ratified the deal.
(Excerpt) Read more at en.apa.az ...
When Putin withdraws his army from Ukraine, I’ll start to take your comments seriously.
Funny - that was nearly agreed to over three years ago:
[After the war had been under way for a month] Israel’s Prime Minister Naftali Bennet, trusted by both sides, served as Putin and Zelensky’s go-between and developed the outline of a ceasefire. Putin dropped his demand for the “disarmament of Ukraine”; Zelensky agreed to drop plans to join NATO... Russia would withdraw from eastern Ukraine; Ukraine would recognize Russia’s possession of Crimea; Ukraine would drop its NATO aspiration and seek security guarantees from individual Western countries.
Zelensky’s advisor, David Arakhamia, later commented, “They were prepared to end the war if we agreed to, as Finland once did, neutrality and committed that we would not join NATO. In fact this was the key point.” The Istanbul negotiations even produced a draft agreement. Zelensky’s aide, Alexey Arestovich, described the negotiations as completely successful: “We opened the champagne bottle.”
But Washington would have none of it. Bennet later explained, “The Americans decided to crush Putin rather than to negotiate.” Shortly thereafter Boris Johnson showed up in Kiev with promises of more weapons and a message from Biden...
The First Draft of the Ukraine War’s History
Unfortunately, Biden, the Democrats, and their supporters preferred war in 2022 - how's that working out?
;^)
But He didn't do it, did he?
That's right: Putin has been engaged in his murderous land-grab for three years, because Putin doesn't want peace. Putin wants EMPIRE. And Putin doesn't care how many bodies his empire is built on.
Have a nice day.
Oh ... John Galt is a fictional character in a rather stupid, pretentious novel ...
Since you asked.
If you're referring to Joe Biden not allowing an agreement to be reached to end the war three years ago, you're correct.
...a fictional character in a rather stupid, pretentious novel ...
Well, if anyone is familiar with "stupid" and "pretentious", it's most assuredly the RINOs & assistant-Dems infesting FR, who support the Democrat's war in Ukraine!
;^)
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