Ukraine Rejects U.S. Demand for Half of Its Mineral Resources
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President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, during a closed-door meeting on Wednesday, rejected an offer by the Trump administration to relinquish half of the country’s mineral resources in exchange for U.S. support, according to five people briefed on the proposal or with direct knowledge of the talks.
The unusual deal would have granted the United States a 50 percent interest in all of Ukraine’s mineral resources, including graphite, lithium and uranium, according to two European officials. Scott Bessent, the U.S. Treasury secretary, who presented the deal to Ukraine, said Sunday that the United States wanted the minerals “as payback for the aid we’ve given them” — leaving unclear whether the deal would cover future military and financial assistance.
A Ukrainian official and an energy expert briefed on the proposal said that the Trump administration sought not only Ukraine’s minerals but additional natural resources, including oil and gas. The proposal, they said, would entitle the United States to half of Ukraine’s resource earnings — funds that are today mostly invested in the country’s military and defense production.
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The audacity of this mineral shakedown reeks of late-stage empire logic—strip-mine a nation’s future while dangling survival as a bargaining chip. Colonialism never died; it just outsourced its PR. Trump’s “deal” is pure extortion: surrender half your sovereignty or face abandonment. Zelensky’s refusal isn’t principled—it’s survival math. What’s 50% of ashes?
Security guarantees? The U.S. wants a vassal, not an ally. Promising troops for rare earths after a peace deal is like selling fire extinguishers post-inferno. Ukraine’s minerals are the new blood diamonds, traded by suits in Munich while frontlines smolder.
Watch how “democracy” becomes a euphemism for resource arbitrage. The real pandemic is geopolitical vampirism. Kyiv’s counteroffer? Probably another round of hollow treaties. But hey, at least the circus has fresh clowns: Vance and Rubio, scrambling to monetize a massacre.
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Good. Trump is a ventriloquist dummy for Putin. Even if he wasn't, demanding a kid for half his lunch money to save him from a bully just makes you another bully.
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Lol. The US is a fucking failed state that couldn't even defeat Vietnamese, Afghan, or Iraqi peasants at the peak of their empire, with trillions of dollars in capital... Literally 1000x more capital than their enemy.
Every country needs to grow balls, forge alliances, and tell the US to collectively get fucked. They're swinging their dick around like they hold the cards, when they're grossly incompetent, and without the rest of the world playing ball the US is fucking dead in the water. All of their wealth is worthless without the global supply chain. They will collapse in months without us.
Even if Ukraine's gov fell, it's likely Russia would be locked in a guerrilla warfare quagmire (like Afghanistan in the 80's). If the USSR couldn't defeat a bunch of peasants, why would a state with 1/10th the power be able to defeat Ukraine?
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And this is exactly why the fuck Trump is chasing Canada as well.
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Don’t know about the other countries,but Afghanistan is a bit special. Many invaders have tried, and failed. I guess the mountainous terrain doesn’t make it any easier. Seems to me that nobody is capable of conquering Afghanistan. When you hear about another empire trying their luck, you know it’s going to drain their power.
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Putin Junior learning from daddy
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we've decided that you lose, and have negotiated your future with your bully who is also having sex with your mother and i
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Offer the US all the Ukrainian land that's currently occupied by Russia. Then hope the US shifts back to democrat control in the next few elections.
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Good. Fuck em (us) the USA shouldn't shake down Ukraine for minerals with the empty promise of security.
Ukraine should join NATO and they all should rally to support Ukraine. USA isnt dependable currently. And should be treated as hostile.
Take it from me.. an american, the US government is absolutely hostile towards folks.
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Vietnam has historically been pretty brutal for invaders too. Between the end of the third Chinese domination and the start of the French colonial period, they went almost a thousand years rarely ever losing a war. They even fended the Mongols off
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Good. Crazy that people were cheering on this straight up extortion. Europe and America promised support to win the war. Now that Ukraine is deep in the sunk cost fallacy they start extorting them.
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Good. Crazy that people were cheering on this straight up extortion. Europe and America promised support to win the war. Now that Ukraine is deep in the sunk cost fallacy they start extorting them.
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NATO isnt an option anymore. Trump being president means the US will reject their NATO application.
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Meh as long as it's not in a treaty they can start the process and wait for trump to hit the burger king in the ground
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Good on you, Zelensky. Do not cave.
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Unless, of course, the US exits NATO. At this point, everybody would be better of without them.
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I believe that the us passed a law saying that a president can't remove the USA from NATO... But gestures broadly we can see how much rule of law matters to a R government trifecta.
Idk.. either way... Ukraine needs support and if they don't get it.. the Russians will be at doorsteps to the major European countries. IMHO.
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The offer might have gone over slightly better if the US Secretary of Defense hadn't already ruled out NATO membership and a return to Ukraine's 2014 borders.
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Yeah - the US was just unlucky. They lost these ones + the korean war. But anywhere else they would win. Maybe except in Russia. Or china. Or a few others. But except for that they would win
