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With Minerals Deal, Trump Ties Himself to Future of Ukraine
NY Times ^ | May 1, 2025 | Kim Barker (Reporting from Kyiv, Ukraine)

Posted on 05/01/2025 5:59:45 AM PDT by McGruff

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1 posted on 05/01/2025 5:59:45 AM PDT by McGruff
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Full article here:

https://archive.ph/rBnye

Text of Mineral deal (PDF file).

https://www.kmu.gov.ua/storage/app/uploads/public/681/33c/e8f/68133ce8f2e82842702204.pdf


2 posted on 05/01/2025 6:00:47 AM PDT by McGruff (Biden will go down in history as the worst president ever.)
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To: McGruff

Unfortunately true, apparently.


3 posted on 05/01/2025 6:00:53 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: McGruff

Reminds me of Rubber Plantations in a place called South Vietnam.


4 posted on 05/01/2025 6:03:05 AM PDT by yuleeyahoo (“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!” - the deep-state)
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To: McGruff

I don’t care about some probably non existent minerals. He was supposed to get the US involvement out.

Not this.


5 posted on 05/01/2025 6:04:18 AM PDT by dforest
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To: McGruff

This will only entangle us further into the Uke $hithole, when we need to be free 9f it.

Stupid move.


6 posted on 05/01/2025 6:05:53 AM PDT by AAABEST (That time Washington0 DC became a corrupted, existential threat to us all...)
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To: AAABEST

Dumb move. We need to distance ourselves from that hot mess over there, not wallow more in it.


7 posted on 05/01/2025 6:09:13 AM PDT by Hartlyboy
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To: 9YearLurker

“Unfortunately true, apparently.”

I have NO CLUE as to what Trump is up to...other than the fact that he would have lost the election if conservatives knew this crap was his plan.


8 posted on 05/01/2025 6:11:17 AM PDT by BobL
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To: McGruff

I think it’s a mistake. We have plenty of these minerals in the USA. This is a “foreign entanglement” of the first order. Ukraine is a bed of snakes.


9 posted on 05/01/2025 6:12:00 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: McGruff

This deal TIES us to a peace agreement.

It is worthless unless the fighting stops and an agreement is signed.

The globalists are selling this as the REASON we will keep supporting this war.

We can walk away from this deal and will walk away from this deal if there is no peace agreement.

It is not in the SELF-INTEREST of either GANGSTA for this war to stop.


10 posted on 05/01/2025 6:13:40 AM PDT by Biblebelter
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To: BobL

Yup. No one would have voted for this bizarre, chaotic plan. At this rate, he will be impeached in early 2027.


11 posted on 05/01/2025 6:16:58 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: McGruff
The left: Everybody must drive cars that need a bunch of rare-earths!

Also the left: How dare Trump get us more rare-earths!

12 posted on 05/01/2025 6:20:10 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Tell It Right

Backdoor entry into NATO. Russia will think twice about taking over the whole country.


13 posted on 05/01/2025 6:21:50 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: McGruff

“Trump ties himself to Ukraines future”

Em. Trump is doing this presidential gig to enrich himself? What is the NYT editorial board made up of ignoramuses?


14 posted on 05/01/2025 6:27:08 AM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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To: BobL

“ I have NO CLUE as to what Trump is up to”

I have a clue. I read his books, I am familiar with game theory. I am familiar with sun tsu’s Art of War

Get a clue, is my advice


15 posted on 05/01/2025 6:29:39 AM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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To: nwrep

An insultingly concise, over-certain example of armchair quarterbacking.

Trump is the Man in the Arena.


16 posted on 05/01/2025 6:30:42 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: McGruff

I guess the Ukrainian dictator being against the deal was just a bargaining position.


17 posted on 05/01/2025 6:31:26 AM PDT by TheDon (Remember the J6 political prisoners! Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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To: stanne

“Get a clue, is my advice”

Give me a clue...we’re all stumped here.


18 posted on 05/01/2025 6:32:03 AM PDT by BobL
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To: McGruff
--- "Kim Barker (Reporting from Kyiv, Ukraine)"

Joe Blow reporting from Saigon. Jack Smith reporting from Kabul. Been there. Done that.

19 posted on 05/01/2025 6:32:12 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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Minerals deal for our time.


20 posted on 05/01/2025 6:33:00 AM PDT by McGruff (Biden will go down in history as the worst president ever.)
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