Your devoted friend,
Volodymyr
.
Posted on 02/04/2025 3:56:15 PM PST by marshmallow
"I’ve mentioned this during a meeting with President Trump in New York back in September," he said
MOSCOW, February 4. /TASS/. Large amounts of rare earth minerals that Ukraine had offered to the United States are on territories no longer controlled by the Kiev government, Vladimir Zelensky admitted.
US President Donald Trump said on February 3 that his country was interested in receiving rare earth minerals from Ukraine and was seeking to obtain relevant guarantees from the Kiev government. The Ukrainian media reported shortly after that a significant portion of Ukrainian rare-earth mineral deposits are located on territories outside the Kiev government’s control. The Ukrainian edition of Forbes assessed the aggregate value of Ukraine’s mineral resources at $15 trillion as of April 2023. At the same time, the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk (DPR and LPR), as well as the Dnepropetrovsk Region not far from the frontline, account for over 70% of deposits.
"To a certain extent, [the territories outside the Kiev government’s control] indeed hold large amounts of our mineral resources," Zelensky has told reporters after talks with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director-General Rafael Grossi in Kiev. The fragment of the video was published by RBC-Ukraine.
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whoopsie.
Idiots.
And the whole thing is stupid looking. While DC accuses Russia of mercantile foreign policy activities, we tell them we will help them fight in return for their minerals.
This reminds me of the old fire departments in Rome. They would show up at a fire and only fight it if the owner sold the property cheap and fast. If he would not sell, they let it burn.
Kinda not cool.
The Brooklyn Bridge sales trick doesn’t work on actual native born New Yorkers
TASS- russian news agency
Russia is freaking out!
INFO
“The Ukrainian edition of Forbes assessed the aggregate value of Ukraine’s mineral resources at $15 trillion as of April 2023. At the same time, the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk (DPR and LPR), as well as the Dnepropetrovsk Region not far from the frontline, account for over 70% of deposits.”
Well that’s just to bad now isn’t it?
This is a step above telling them if we can ship our industrial and nuclear waste for storage, we’ll sell them a bazooka.
This war is descending into the absurd.
“US President Donald Trump said on February 3 that his country was interested in receiving rare earth minerals from Ukraine and was seeking to obtain relevant guarantees from the Kiev government.”
I don’t think Trump was referring to the current Kiev government - he’s referring to the one that Russia is forced to install.
Well I guess he’ll just have to give us a check for fifty gazillion dollars instead then.
Well it’s Russia’s now
Which means that Trump, who wants them, will have to help Ukraine get them back. This is not going to end the way the Russians want.
RE: Rare Earths offered....
The other Rare Earth.
The first (at one rumored to be the “only) white rock group signed by Motown, Rare Earth had six chart hits.
Apple Music site said:
Rare Earth came out of Detroit in the late ‘60s and was one of the funkiest, most soulful groups around, regardless of the members’ skin tone. Rare Earth had a half-dozen
Top Ten hits in the early ‘70s and is probably best known for its raucous covers of The Temptations’ “Get Ready” and “(I Know) I’m Losing You,” plus its original party-starting
anthem “I Just Want to Celebrate.” With an abundance of wah-wah guitars, wily organ riffs,thick bass lines, and potent vocals from lead singer/drummer Peter Rivera, Rare Earth was
on the same page as acts like MC5 and War, fusing hard rock, sweaty soul, and psychedelic freakiness. The band recorded a dozen albums.
I Just Want To Celebrate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iKcLDrV_V4
What are you freaking out about now? Putin will be laughing all the way to the bank.
Looks like Trump will work a Deal with Putin for those minerals, since Ruzzia
controls the YouCrayne Territory where those minerals are located.
Ruzzia gets the mine.
Zelensky gets the shaft.
No wonder Trump will be meeting with Putin in the near future.
Your devoted friend,
Volodymyr
.
When we pull his money he’ll find it.
“Which means that Trump, who wants them, will have to help Ukraine get them back”
No. Trump will work a deal with Putin for those minerals.
Wishful thinking. That is not what he said. He said that he wants them from Ukraine. Trump has no love for Ukraine, nor does he have any contempt as so many here do. He will make the deal that he thinks best for the US, and that would be with Ukraine. Allowing Russia to subjugate Ukraine is not in the best interest of either the US or Trump.
We know nothing until Gabbard sterilizes the intel.
Odds seem way above 50% to me that there are essentially no REEs located anywhere in Ukraine or what used to be Ukraine. It’s just a story made up to try go draw the US in.
Which is precisely the principle Gabbard has espoused — reject any and all intel clearly designed to put US troops in danger.
If you’re going to lose it anyway, you might as well give it away.
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