Trump demands $500B in rare earths from Ukraine for continued support
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Summary
Donald Trump stated that U.S. aid to Ukraine should be compensated with $500 billion worth of its mineral resources, including rare earth elements.
He claimed Ukraine had "essentially agreed" to this arrangement. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has hinted at allowing U.S. access to these resources to maintain support.
The idea aligns with Ukraine’s "victory plan" for post-war recovery.
Trump's comments drew criticism, with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz condemning his approach as "very egotistic, very self-centered."
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America shows its colours.
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At least they are open about it this time around.
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Always has been. Most of the shit they got up to after WW2 violated the human rights of half the planet, was anti-democratic, and imperialistic.
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Blackmailer in chief.
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I wish the EU was in a position to make a better offer.
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Wouldn't be funny if Russia interjected "Hey, we have rare earths. Want some?"
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Zelensky should agree: he can always renege after the war, claiming he did what he had to do to stay independent like the Finns did after the war to justify inviting the Nazis in, and pointing to Trump himself as the quintessential untrustworthy ruler who readily goes back on his word.
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Also what Russia did to Ukraine after Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons in exchange for a pledge to never invade.
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It is, it just doesn't have the will to do so at the moment.
I hope they muster their political capital to back Ukraine.
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It could. But the political system, which I'd like to keep btw, doesn't allow a switch to war economy.
People like their social security, culture support and education and don't want tax raises. Politicians can't do what they want without losing support of the voters. And then there are the agendas of the many political parties in many countries...
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Isn't this Zelenskyy's original plan that he pitched even before Trump got elected then?
The fourth point of the peace plan is economic: Zelenskyy calls on allied countries to implement “joint investment” plans to exploit Ukraine’s natural resources: “Ukraine has natural resources and critical metals worth trillions of dollars,” he notes. “These include uranium, titanium, lithium, graphite, and other strategic resources, which will either strengthen Russia or Ukraine and the democratic world.”
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This is how trump operates.
Postures, bullies, makes loads of noise in order to get what someone else has already agreed to.
Then, cause he was so noisy about it, he gets all the press coverage, and the neo-nazis chock it up as another win -
So giving the US a real stake in the security of a non-NATO state is the worst thing in history now? How is this not a win-win for everyone except the military industrial complex who wants to see nothing but constant, bloody war?
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American imperialism mostly halted under Clinton and Obama. The cold war was over and they weren't jingoistic like Bush or Trump.
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"worst thing in history", no.
"Terrible and exploitative, and untrustworthy besides"? Yes.
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This is, for a sense of scale, more than five times the total value of everything the US has sent to Ukraine since February 2022
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Zelensky should. Trump makes trade deals and then renege's on them all the time.
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Nothing Biden gave them was free. They took on huge debt to get it.
In don't like Trump but this is prob better than owing more debt. Not sure if the 500B is fair, but that's for Ukraine to decide.
