Posted on 04/17/2025 2:14:48 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
Ukraine and the United States on Thursday signed a memorandum as an initial step towards the clinching of an agreement on developing minerals in Ukraine, Yulia Svyrydenko, Ukraine's first deputy prime minister and economy minister, said.
"We are happy to announce the signing, with our American partners, of a Memorandum of Intent, which paves the way for an Economic Partnership Agreement and the establishment of the Investment Fund for the Reconstruction of Ukraine," Svyrydenko wrote on the social media platform X.
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Any payoff for the US is a long way down the road and any implicit security guarantee based on US interests in Ukraine is dubious at best.
So we can count on Kiev soon receiving it's couple of pounds of Lithium?
Let’s see how this plays out.
Another and perhaps clearer example of the importance of this little-mentioned aspect of international relations is in China's Belt-and-Road Initiative of loans with bribes for infrastructure projects to various corrupt and foolish Third World countries. When the projects fail, China swoops in and enforces the loan, often with severe penalties and extortionate terms that yield de facto control of the country to the CCP.
Despite much criticism, China is within her rights under international law. Russia used the same approach during the Cold War with considerable success. Marxists would cheat or shoot their way to power in a Third World country. The new leaders would then go to Moscow and sign trade deals that effectively made the country a Soviet colony. Cuba is a prime example.
For Ukraine, a quick minerals deal with Trump and the US ought to have been a no-brainer. The problem of course was that Zelensky followed the advice of the Democrats to balk and make trouble for Trump. Now, even Zelensky knows better, so a deal gets signed.
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There have to be at least six other English language versions of this same news.
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Don’t care. Fuque Ukraine AND Russia. I hope they kill each other to the last breathing creature.
Ukraine subverted the last president and stole hundreds of billions from the USA to bribe demoncrap politicians. And Russia has sucked since the Tsars.
No loss to the world if both disappear.
Cutting Zelensky out of the loop certainly helps, doesn’t it?
I hope the agreement contains language that requires reporting on how much US taxpayer funds were funneled back to the McCain family, Lindsey Graham, Schumer, Klobuchar, etc.
It had to be in the billions.
No more U.S. money = proxxy war immediately over..
https://youtu.be/1GlcYqP2Mzg
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Looks like u lose a couple more football fields.🤡😂🐸
That, right there. ☝️
We'll do a bigger deal with Russia eventually.
It is only about Russian/Gazaprom Oil/Gas Pipelines in Ukraine before the war ends. The US wants to get pennies on the dollar in the expected Nordstream trade to save Germany’s A$$.
The Baltic littoral states are unlikely to ever allow the Nordstream pipeline to be reconstructed. Neither will the current German government seek to do so.
Got it. /s
The traditional rules of international relations arose over many centuries, beginning in the ancient world. Russia’s brutality toward Ukraine is not just a crime, it is phenomenally stupid. Still, the rules apply, perhaps enough to get a greater measure of international support against Russia if the US and Ukraine follow them.
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