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Trump wants ‘guarantee’ that US will get Ukraine’s rare earth minerals in exchange for aid: ‘Handing them money hand over fist’
NY Post ^ | 2/3/2025 | Diana Glebova and Steven Nelson

Posted on 02/03/2025 2:53:05 PM PST by marcusmaximus

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Ukraine is one of the largest rare earth mineral suppliers in the world, and has the largest titanium reserves in Europe.

The country also boasts deposits of lithium, beryllium, manganese, gallium, uranium, zirconium, graphite, apatite, fluorite, and nickel, per the World Economic Forum.

Russian forces have already taken parts of Eastern Ukraine that had historically provided the rest of the country with key minerals, notably much of the coal-supplying Donbas region.

But other parts of Ukraine, including the Dnieper River basin that runs through the center of the country and the Carpathian Mountains in the West, have massive supply of minerals and natural gas under Kyiv’s control.

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To: freeandfreezing

Wrong. Ukrainians are dying at a 10 to 1 ratio vs. Russians. So far in the war, about 1 million Ukrainians dead while no more than 100,000 Russians dead. Why do you think the line of conflict is moving steadily toward Ukraines capitol? And why do you think the whole world is wondering when Zelensky will put on a fake nose and mustache and try to drive his Maserati to Uruguay?


21 posted on 02/04/2025 7:53:02 AM PST by Kentfromohio
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To: Kentfromohio
If you actually believe that you are really uninformed. Or you know it is false and it earns you an extra serving of pelmeny in the cafeteria.

Which is it?

22 posted on 02/04/2025 11:30:21 AM PST by freeandfreezing
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