Posted on 05/01/2025 5:59:45 AM PDT by McGruff
The text of the agreement, made public by Ukraine’s government, made no mention of the security guarantees that Kyiv had long sought.
The minerals deal signed between the United States and Ukraine on Wednesday could bring untold money into a joint investment fund between the two countries that would help rebuild Ukraine whenever the war with Russia ends.
But Ukraine’s untapped resources that are the subject of the deal will take years to extract and yield profits. And those could fail to deliver the kind of wealth that President Trump has long said they would.
It is not yet clear how the nine-page deal, the text of which Ukraine’s government made public on Thursday, will work in practice. Although the Trump administration had wanted Kyiv to use its mineral wealth to repay past U.S. military assistance, the idea of treating that aid as debt was removed in the final document.
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Full article here:
Text of Mineral deal (PDF file).
https://www.kmu.gov.ua/storage/app/uploads/public/681/33c/e8f/68133ce8f2e82842702204.pdf
Unfortunately true, apparently.
Reminds me of Rubber Plantations in a place called South Vietnam.
I don’t care about some probably non existent minerals. He was supposed to get the US involvement out.
Not this.
This will only entangle us further into the Uke $hithole, when we need to be free 9f it.
Stupid move.
Dumb move. We need to distance ourselves from that hot mess over there, not wallow more in it.
“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.
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.
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.
Yup. No one would have voted for this bizarre, chaotic plan. At this rate, he will be impeached in early 2027.
Also the left: How dare Trump get us more rare-earths!
Backdoor entry into NATO. Russia will think twice about taking over the whole country.
“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?
“ 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
An insultingly concise, over-certain example of armchair quarterbacking.
Trump is the Man in the Arena.
I guess the Ukrainian dictator being against the deal was just a bargaining position.
“Get a clue, is my advice”
Give me a clue...we’re all stumped here.
Joe Blow reporting from Saigon. Jack Smith reporting from Kabul. Been there. Done that.
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