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Originally Posted by Paul
Trumps only interest was this ;
His only worry as far as Ukraine goes is that if Putin succeeded, the US might lose access to the minerals.
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The Ukrainians appear to have realised this, and have proposed a minerals deal that can’t work unless the Americans are prepared to defend their new assets. Zelenskyy is pragmatic enough to understand he’s going to have to pay something for American help (after all, we did, for decades after WW2), and in that regard paying with commodities the Americans will come in and extract is a pretty straightforward way of doing it.
Worth noting that unless there is a credible ceasefire, the deal can’t come into force. Also worth noting that according to multiple commentators the deal on the table doesn’t settle on quantities or values, it simply agrees the parties will meet to agree those things later, i.e. if/when there is a ceasefire.
Trump will spend the rest of this week and most of next shouting about how he’s secured the US hundreds of millions of $$$s, but I’m seeing various Ukraine-supporting Twitter accounts talking about this tonight and every single one of them thinks Ukraine has played a blinder here.