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Ukraine still 'ready' to sign US minerals deal, Zelensky says
BBC ^ | 03 02 2025 | Tom McArthur

Posted on 03/02/2025 2:24:34 PM PST by yesthatjallen

Volodymyr Zelensky has said he is still "ready to sign" a US-Ukraine minerals deal after leaving the White House without it being agreed.

Ukraine's president told reporters that despite a fractious meeting with US President Donald Trump last week, he is still willing to have a "constructive dialogue" with the US, but said: "I just want the Ukrainian position to be heard."

"We want our partners to remember who the aggressor is in this war," he added.

When relations between the US and Ukraine first became strained over the Trump administration's handing of peace talks with Russia, the minerals deal was intended as a stepping stone towards further security ties between the two countries.

But after Zelensky, Trump and US Vice-President JD Vance had a heated argument in front of the media in the Oval Office, the Ukrainian leader was told to leave without the deal being signed.

Zelensky's remarks come as US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told the BBC's US partner CBS News it was "impossible to have an economic deal without a peace deal".

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(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fecklessmidget; goawayzeeman; littlezimplodes; minerals; posturingmidget; ukraine; zelensky
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1 posted on 03/02/2025 2:24:34 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

Same BS. He isn’t ready to sign anything.


2 posted on 03/02/2025 2:26:09 PM PST by abbastanza (Oh boy. Can't wait. Go nuts kids)
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To: yesthatjallen

“I just want the Ukrainian position to be heard.”

It’s been heard to the point of exhaustion. Now shut up.


3 posted on 03/02/2025 2:26:45 PM PST by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Send it him, have him sign it, and he can fax it back.


4 posted on 03/02/2025 2:27:41 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Let’s just grease the cockroach and call it a day!


5 posted on 03/02/2025 2:27:44 PM PST by dpetty121263
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To: yesthatjallen
We don't need them
6 posted on 03/02/2025 2:28:23 PM PST by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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7 posted on 03/02/2025 2:28:40 PM PST by Who is John Galt? ("...mit Pulver und Blei, Die Gedanken sind frei!")
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To: abbastanza

>>Same BS. He isn’t ready to sign anything.

Exactly. Nothing has changed. As long as he continues to lecture his “partners” there’s no point in dealing with him.


8 posted on 03/02/2025 2:28:48 PM PST by mbrfl
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To: yesthatjallen

He has a lot of “issues” no doubt, and questionable connections, way too many Leftist sycophants.

That being said, I do think JD Vance, Tucker Carlson, and other younger-ish conservatives et al. are naive about Russia. Doesn’t mean we should be at war with Russia. Just that Putin’s Russia’s not some model for all things great and functional.

It’s not. If it were it wouldn’t have done what it did and throwing so many lives away.


9 posted on 03/02/2025 2:28:50 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: Who is John Galt?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZahNTpd-0_w


10 posted on 03/02/2025 2:29:56 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: yesthatjallen

Not ready for peace, though, are ya, you little twerp?

What’s the matter? The $3B “loan” from the UK isn’t going to cut it?

You’re not going to grift our country. Biden’s gone. Get it through your thick head.


11 posted on 03/02/2025 2:30:02 PM PST by Allegra (It’s MAGA time! )
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To: yesthatjallen

Shut up and sign it and send it by diplomatic courier.

Don’t think you will ever be able to sign it in the WH.

Whether we accept it and co-sign it will be put under consideration after we received your signed copy.


12 posted on 03/02/2025 2:30:17 PM PST by Biblebelter
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To: yesthatjallen

Translation: Europe isn’t giving me enough for my money laundering scam. At least with Putin we ALL know who he is and what we are dealing with..with Zelenskyy he is a con artist money laundering fraud who doesn’t give a hoot about Ukraine, he cares about banking in the millions..if he cared about his people he’d want a peace deal to end the misery, to end the suffering, but he doesn’t care all that matters to him is making millions


13 posted on 03/02/2025 2:31:13 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Who is John Galt?

Don’t kick the tires or look in the trunk. The car’s not his.


14 posted on 03/02/2025 2:32:26 PM PST by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Oh, you think our leaders are naive unlike yourself. In which case the proxy war should continue. Got it.


15 posted on 03/02/2025 2:33:33 PM PST by ARW
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To: yesthatjallen

Trump should refuse to even entertain any idea to make any more deals with this clown.

Demand he resign and say you need a person that can be trusted to honor a deal that doesn’t behave like a jackass.

I don’t know if I like any deal with that place. Walking away from all of it would be my choice.


16 posted on 03/02/2025 2:33:45 PM PST by dforest
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To: mbrfl

Scott Bessent went to Kiev weeks ago to sign the deal, and what did Zelenskyy do, he came late and when he did show up he behaved rude..and what the hell did Bessent do to deserve that..he’s a good man who went to Kiev to do his stupid ass a favor to try to end the war and the prick treated him like crap


17 posted on 03/02/2025 2:33:51 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Biblebelter

Just use Docusign that simple


18 posted on 03/02/2025 2:34:10 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: yesthatjallen

Hope not. The LAST thing America needs is to be wrapped up in a business relationship with that corrupt nazi Ukrainian tar-baby.


19 posted on 03/02/2025 2:34:18 PM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI...)
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To: yesthatjallen

Gonna sign it after we already know what’s in his desires and intentions?

The man needs to step down for the future and the good of his country


20 posted on 03/02/2025 2:34:25 PM PST by tsowellfan
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