Il funzionario di Trump afferma che l’accordo di minerali darà a Kiev dopo la guerra “SHIELD”

You trust Trump, then you are dead.

If Ukraine can go back to the 2021 borders and keep sanctions on Russia then I think this is ultimately a win. Ukraine is likely never getting Crimea back. Russia will still struggle with a sanctioned economy and the rebuilding efforts in Ukraine will take years.
Exploiting these resources is years out and hopefully by then Trump will be dead or out of office and/or Europe is strong enough to push America back out of the continent.

The american vulture has landed.

KYIV, Feb 12 (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent visited Kyiv on Wednesday to discuss a critical minerals deal as Ukraine vies to win the backing of U.S. President Donald Trump at a perilous diplomatic juncture in the war with Russia.

Bessent, the first cabinet-level official in Trump’s team to visit Ukraine, is certain to meet President Volodymyr Zelenskiy who has said he is open to a deal with Washington and hopes he can obtain U.S. security guarantees to end the war with Russia.

The visit came hours after Kyiv’s residents were awoken by a predawn Russian ballistic missile attack that killed one person in the city as the sound of explosions rang out.

Trump, who wants a rapid end to the bloodshed but has not said whether he will continue vital military assistance to Kyiv, has said he wants $500 billion in rare earth minerals from Ukraine and that Washington’s support needs to be “secured”.

Zelenskiy set out the contours of a deal in a Reuters interview last week, unfurling a map showing numerous mineral deposits and saying he was offering a mutually beneficial partnership to develop them jointly and not “giving them away”.

A U.S. source with knowledge of the matter said Bessent, a former hedge fund manager, would use the visit to discuss a strategic minerals agreement that would also include energy resources, energy assets and state-owned enterprises.

Those remarks could refer in part to another idea to use Ukraine’s vast underground storage sites to store U.S. natural gas for Europe, something Zelenskiy has said is being discussed by Kyiv and the White House.

The source said that an agreement would give the United States an interest in both the security and economic future of Ukraine.

The visit is a tangible sign of real U.S. interest in Ukraine that will be welcomed by an anxious Kyiv that is watching nervously at how the Trump team has been engaging with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

On Tuesday, Russia freed a U.S. prisoner after a visit to Moscow by U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff, the first known senior U.S. official to travel to Russia since before the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

The prospective minerals deal shows how Ukraine has rapidly reset its foreign policy approach to align with the transactional world view set out by the new occupant of the White House, Ukraine’s most important wartime ally.

Don’t trust a word from his mouth

Anyone here believes the US will get involved if russians push, say, to Estonia?

So the “security shield” is EU and UK peacekeepers that aren’t acting under NATO and therefore won’t activate article 5. SO the question is, what security shield, what actively would the US do when russia attacks again?

That’s… protection money.

Trump and his friends are just a racket shaking up the neighborhood.

The irony is the US’s been doing this exact deal for a long time now. With the orange man it’s more transparent and obvious, part of his balls-out strategy

“Thief-Taker General”

And if they give him what he wants he’ll probably double cross Ukraine, Trump cannot be trusted.

As a Ukrainian I have better solution. Give right to mine resources to Europian companies with bonds to pay to USA.

Cause his demand for ~500 billion resources for a little more then 100 billion previous assistant and current behavior is diabolic.

As per him, Europe should protect Ukraine – Europe should get right to mine resources. Pretty logical.

The differnce between Trump’s word and rare Earth metals is, that those metals worth something.

In Finland we give our rare earth metals to foreign companies even there isn’t war and we get pennies for euro, so it is not that bad of a deal.

I mean, at any point the EU could have stepped up and helped Ukraine win this war. And this is a European war that should have been handled by Europeans.

But your governments didn’t, as they have no interest in taking any of the steps necessary to defeat Russia.

Trumps a piece of shit but on this issue , I don’t entirely fault him. The EUs plan seems to be to supply Ukraine just enough to keep the stalemate going.

LOL – remember the **Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances (1994)** …The memorandum focused on security assurances in exchange for Ukraine giving up its nuclear weapons, with **commitments from Russia, the U.S., and the U.K. to respect Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity**. However, it did not address Ukraine’s future military alliances or geopolitical orientation.

Fast forward to: Russia invaded and annexed Crimea in February–March 2014.

Followed by: Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began on February 24, 2022.

Conclusion: avoid all promises of commitments from the Budapest memorandum countries as “hell no”

Then the US should send the 200,000 peacekeepers Zelensky is asking for.

Literally a protection racket.

We all know the kid, on the playground, who forced smaller kids to give up their lunch money in exchange for “protection.” We all know that if the kid didn’t comply, he’d have two bullies after him instead of just one. It’s called extortion, and when it’s done to countries actively being invaded, it’s many lives that are being threatened.

The fact that they so openly admit the true American way is both frightening and somewhat calming at the same time.

It also means some center parties and governing parties in Europe might have some explaining to do with regards to being a US puppet and claiming we have not been one.

I mean you could do a security shield now…

The Trump agreement.
Signed a free trade agreement, now that is busted because of Trump.
Says one thing, does another.
More lies than another President.
Bailed on the Kurds.
Working against the laws of the USA.
Buddy, buddy with Putin.

Tread lightly Ukraine.
Sell those critical metals very slowly after you have peace