AKA world-class tennis player...
Just kidding...
Posted on 05/01/2025 12:07:31 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
Senior Russian security official Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday that the signing of a minerals deal between Ukraine and the United States meant President Donald Trump had forced Kyiv to pay for future U.S. military aid.
The deal, signed in Washington on Wednesday, will give the United States preferential access to new Ukrainian minerals deals and fund investment in Ukraine's reconstruction.
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Trump has broken the Kyiv regime to the point where they will have to pay for U.S. aid with mineral resources," Medvedev, a former Russian president who is now deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, wrote on Telegram.
"Now they (Ukrainians) will have to pay for military supplies with the national wealth of a disappearing country," he said.
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The minerals agreement was reached at a time when the U.S. says it is growing increasingly frustrated by the failure of Moscow and Kyiv to come to the table for peace talks.
Moscow says it is ready for direct talks with Ukraine and is open to a long-lasting peace settlement, but that the issues at stake are so complex that the process cannot be rushed.
Kyiv says it advocates an immediate unconditional ceasefire for at least 30 days. Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he agrees in principle, but that there are many issues that need to be clarified before that can happen.
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This landmark deal significantly deepens America’s involvement in Ukraine, marking a pivotal moment that firmly establishes the two nations as official allies like never before.
Oh my. Medvedev is upset. The guy Obama offered to get flexible with has his panties in a wad.
AKA world-class tennis player...
Just kidding...
Kinda ironic how neocons and zeepers told us that one reason Russia invaded Ukraine was to steal its minerals.
Now the US gets them instead.
https://hub.biz/video/barack-obama-open-microphone-gaffe-with-dmitry-medvedev-8364893651611953087
Claims of Obama’s ‘secret deal’ with Russia draw Democrats’ ire
The Hill ^ | 05/19/12 01:45 PM ET | Jeremy Herb
Posted on 5/19/2012, 9:11:19 PM by BradtotheBone
Democrats are crying foul over GOP suggestions that President Obama has a “secret deal” on missile defense with Russia.
The fight began in March, when a hot mic at a summit caught Obama telling then-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that he’d have more “flexibility” on the issue after the election. Medvedev famously responded that he would transmit that information to Vladimir Putin, who is now Russia’s president....
Sweden and Finland could be in the Kremlin's crosshairs for joining Western military alliance NATO following the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, former Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev suggested, according to the TASS state news agency.
Pray this guy doesn't take over Russia's nukes.
It’s the paying back of all the U.S. loans that Zelensky claims didn’t exist.
It got her hubby a half a million dollar speaker’s fee.
Biden would have gotten us nothing for our hundreds of billions except the ingratitude of a poorly-dressed midget.
Just another huge scam that will steal more money from American Taxpayers, who will be lucky to even get a lump of Ukrainian coal in their Christmas stockings as ‘repayment’.
I thought the mineral deal was to pay back past monies
Yep. Since Zelensky claimed the money he got from the U.S. wasn't a loan, this mineral deal would be the payback for the money he claims Ukraine doesn't owe U.S. taxpayers. I'm sure he isn't a happy camper.
You’re just plain nuts, Froggy. Ugh.
We only get paid back and what's left of Ukraine only continues to exist when Ukraine concedes the annexed territory and all involvement with NATO.
RE: Ukraine Pays US Aid With Minerals
OF course. What’s the USA supposed to do, just send aid without getting compensated? Money doesn’t grow on trees.
May be the war is almost over and we are going to strip mine the place to help fund President Trumps external revenue service.
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