Posted on 02/07/2025 2:52:25 PM PST by marcusmaximus
The US won’t repeat the mistakes of the Iraq War by failing to secure valuable resources from Ukraine in exchange for help ending Russia’s nearly three-year-old invasion, President Trump’s special envoy to the conflict exclusively told The Post.
“When you look at the mineral deposits in that country, we’re not talking millions of dollars. We’re talking — virtually every region, we’re talking about billions, and then some regions are [worth] trillions,” retired Gen. Keith Kellogg said this week.
“You can come up with a deal, and that’s what [Trump] has the Treasury looking at: ‘OK, how do you make a deal where aid is predicated off of the payback [of] precious metals?'”
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“When we walked out of the Iraq War, we don’t have a single oil contract in Iraq proper — they’re all in Kurdistan,” Kellogg explained. “Nothing. All the sacrifice went to no one. So I think the president is taking an economical look: ‘If you want to do this, there’s got to be something good for the American people,’ and that’s how he’s looking at it.”
On Friday, Trump told reporters he intended to meet with Zelensky next week and indicated he was interesting in discussing Ukraine’s resources and obtaining “an equal amount of something” in exchange for American backing.
“We would like them to equalize,” said the president, who added that he wants to see the “ridiculous” European war brought to an end “just on a human basis” and that many Ukrainian cities have been devastated “worse than Gaza.”
Ukraine holds about 7% of the world’s supply of titanium — the largest reserves of any European country
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But, sicko Zeepers don't care how many Ukrainians die so long as Russians are dying.
Is that your mentality?
No real country recognizes the occupied territories. Not Even China or Iran either.
What’s nonsense is American Putinistas.
Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhi were not "reassigned" to be part of Ukraine by the Soviet Union. There were part of the independent Ukrainian state in 1917 and were recognized as such by Russia the following year. The Soviet Union was formed in 1922 by the union of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Transcaucasia. Ukraine entered the union as an equal member as Russia, not as a part of Russia. The aforementioned provinces were a part of Ukraine at the formation of the Soviet Union. They were not later reassigned. The only province with which this happened was Crimea.
That explains why that part of what used to be Ukraine was ethnically and culturally Russian.
Again, these provinces are ethnically Ukrainian, not Russian. This is especially true of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia whose populations are 80% Ukrainian. The only province with an ethnic Russian majority is Crimea.
And, Ukrainian nationalists had no right to try to force an illegally-formed government on the people there, let alone persecute and try to kill those there.
The governments formed after 2014 were chosen by free elections. There were not imposed. This is what the Russians did in Donbas. Nor was there any campaign to kill the ethnic Russian population. This is pure Russian propaganda.
Don’t forget about the UNoccupied areas of Ukraine that the Putin has magically decreed part of Russia. It’s hilarious to see Moscow’s dupes and useful fools air brush that inconvient truth while at the same time demanding Ukraine hold elections under the guns and ballistic missiles of Russia.
Totally correct. And trying to make such a deal only prolongs involvement in this conflict.
What’s nonsense is Deep Staters/USAID recipients posing as Freepers and Trump supporters.
Did you get a paycheck from the $5 billion USAID spent on fomenting the Maiden coup?
Sir,
History shapes our future.
If we don’t learn its lessons we are doomed to repeat those mistakes. As Russia is doing now.
Whats nonsenes is paid Putinistas posing as Freepers and American supporters.
How's your Young Churchill doin'?
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