Yeah, you’re right. There will be a 500 billion dollar mining agreement in Ukraine... and Blackrock won’t see a penny. It’ll just be Ukrainian companies extracting and selling, and they’ll send America the money.
This is nothing but a deal with Wall Street. They are replacing the USAID and arms grift, with the minerals deal and rebuilding grift.
Not to mention, this is just tacky for America. Supposedly innocent freedom loving Ukraine was attacked one day for reasons nobody fully understands. And we say, we’ll protect you but you gotta pay us.
To me, that looks like you see an elderly guy getting mugged, and you’ll save him, but in return you expect the deed to his new pickup.
Tacky. Unrefined.
Good point. You may also want to brush up on how the money flows with mineral royalty payments.
OMG, I think for the first time in ages I actually agree with you.
Last week I said to someone else here, “It’s one thing to give Germany and France the mother of all “I told you so’s”; it’s quite another to start royally kicking the very same people who were on President Trump’s side in the teeth for pointing out that nobody so far has taken Putin’s side and listened to his bullshit “concerns” without ending up being humiliated in the long run.”
That was in response to an earlier post where I pointed out, even the most hardball pro-Trumpers in the UK have publicly shat the bed after hearing about the $500bn blackmail offer. Even Nigel Farage freaked out. And he’s spent more of the last six months in the USA sucking up to MAGA than he’s spent doing his job in the UK.
Pay double what’s been spent by the USA (and more than 5x what ever actually left the USA to get to Ukraine) in return for no guarantees whatsoever? Good grief. Did anyone with more than two functioning brain cells think that was a “good” deal from the perspective of Ukraine?
Bluntly, the “deal” was so retarded only three explanations made sense:
1. It was smoke-and-mirrors with Trump and Zelensky both doing it to sucker the Russians into complacency, and put the screaming willies up the Europeans. Job done, and now we’re hearing about the REAL deal. Kabuki theater. I mean, Z’s an actor, it ain’t that implausible.
2. Putin put the red button on the table in front of Trump, and Trump’s entire administration folded like a cheap suit. In short - Putin deployed nuclear blackmail.
3. Those rumors of Trump being a “cicada” are true. Russia took the USA without firing a shot - by grooming a KGB asset from the late 80s, and pointing him at the Presidency.
Now, from where I’m sat the first option - kabuki theater - was the only acceptable one. Yet a fellow Freeper was incensed at the suggestion, and thought I was having a go at Trump merely for pointing out, these are the three theories circulating behind closed doors across the West.
What you’ve just said, “this is just tacky for America,” is what many of Trump’s most powerful supporters in Europe are saying out loud. If they’re breaking ranks to even give that muted a criticism, Lord knows what they’re actually thinking in private.
You are on the wrong team. F the damn Ukraine!