Posted on 04/30/2025 3:56:26 PM PDT by ifinnegan
April 30, 2025 WASHINGTON — On April 30, the United States and Ukraine signed an agreement to establish the United States-Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund. In recognition of the significant financial and material support that the people of the United States have provided to the defense of Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion, this economic partnership positions our two countries to work collaboratively and invest together to ensure that our mutual assets, talents, and capabilities can accelerate Ukraine’s economic recovery.
Under the leadership of President Donald J. Trump, the Treasury Department and the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) will work together with the Government of Ukraine to finalize program governance and advance this important partnership.
“Thanks to President Trump’s tireless efforts to secure a lasting peace, I am glad to announce the signing of today’s historic economic partnership agreement between the United States and Ukraine establishing the United States-Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund,” said U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent. “As the President has said, the United States is committed to helping facilitate the end of this cruel and senseless war. This agreement signals clearly to Russia that the Trump Administration is committed to a peace process centered on a free, sovereign, and prosperous Ukraine over the long term. President Trump envisioned this partnership between the American people and the Ukrainian people to show both sides’ commitment to lasting peace and prosperity in Ukraine. And to be clear, no state or person who financed or supplied the Russian war machine will be allowed to benefit from the reconstruction of Ukraine.”
Both the United States and the Government of Ukraine look forward to quickly operationalizing this historic economic partnership for both the Ukrainian and American people.
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What peace?
Now it just remains to be seen how much money goes into, for lack of better words “nation building” vs how much American citizens will benefit financially in what comes out in a deal, and if guarantees of what comes out will be set in stone, but on paper...
OK, let’s now hear from the pro-Ruskie nay-sayers. (Not in Ukraine’s corner but am sooooooo tired of them!)
Has it been signed yet? It ain’t an agreement until the required signatures are on the document.
Bloomberg article described it this way.
“ The deal will grant the US privileged access to new investment projects to develop Ukraine’s natural resources including aluminum, graphite, oil and natural gas.”
I saw an interesting clip recently on Nation Building vs Nation Rebuilding. Some woman described Germany and Japan in the post-WWII era. Both had been devastated. Yet both countries had a history of establishing stable governments, they understood banking, they knew how to fight corruption, they had science and industry, and universities. Yes, they had been devastated, but they could be rebuilt.
Then the woman spoke about countries like Iraq, or Afghanistan, or Somalia. They didn’t understand government, finances, science, education, industry — nothing. And corruption was essential to how anything got done. There was nothing to “rebuild” in these places, just hardcore, actual “Nation Building”. Which is impossible and not even worth attempting.
In my opinion, Ukraine has no real history of success. There won’t be “rebuilding”. And attempts to “Nation Build” will fail.
“ Has it been signed yet? It ain’t an agreement until the required signatures are on the document.”
First sentence:
“On April 30, the United States and Ukraine signed an agreement…”
Before war broke out, wasn’t Ukraine listed as one of the most corrupt “western” nations/societies in the world?
I seem to remember multiple news outlets reporting on that some time back to that effect, but the reports on it online may be long covered up by now.
Nothing definitive, and no $ signs of how much, as in value relative to minerals, deposits, etc, will come out.
And will American citizens back home benefit? And how?
Remains to be seen...
Are you crying?
Well, there goes another couple of trillion dollars of US taxpayer dollars to Zelenskyy and the various Ukraine area ‘Oligarchs’.
And I bet that American Taxpayers will be lucky if they get a lump of coal in their Christmas Stockings in return for their ‘investments’.
I don’t understand President Trump’s thinking on this agreement, since he has said he won’t be shipping anymore US weaponry to Ukraine. Can someone explain what this is about?
“ I don’t understand President Trump’s thinking on this agreement, since he has said he won’t be shipping anymore US weaponry to Ukraine. ”
What is the connection you are making here?
No, I’m just wondering why you apparently hate America, Americans citizens, and taxpayers?
American taxpayers get their money sent over to rebuild Ukraine’s roads, bridges, dams, water works, power stations, schools, etc.
But if Ukrainians get the overwhelming majority of the jobs extracting all of these resources you named then Americans don’t benefit.
Go to Democrat Underground. You belong there, not here.
Treasury Announces Agreement to Establish United States-Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund
That’s the end of the war. Russia gets land, Ukraine gets cash, the US gets rare earth materials which China previously provided. The EU moves closer to totalitarianism and Canada will fill the void we created when we told the EU to F off.
And US gets land.
Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
Jewish Autonomous Oblast
Kamchatka Krai
Khabarovsk Krai
Magadan Oblast
Primorsky Krai
Sakhalin Oblast
This will be phase II
You don’t make any sense.
Interesting to note on Nation building
Example:
U.S Automotive companies helped Japan post-WWII to devlop construct their automotive industry.
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