Oh, this is a little funny. The vertically challenged Ukrainian president who dresses like a UPS driver, is now likely to make a deal with President Trump where Ukraine puts up their “rare earth minerals” as collateral for taxpayer funds received by the United States.
Previously President Trump remarked that U.S. leadership were “stupid” for not securing Afghanistan future mineral contracts in exchange for U.S. military operations. Talking about the Ukrainian expectation from the oval office earlier today, President Trump outlined his expectations that Volodymyr Zelenskyy put up the rare earth minerals as collateral for continued financial support. WATCH:
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday indicated that he wants to reach an agreement with Ukraine to gain access to the country’s rare earth materials as a condition for continuing U.S. support for its war against Russia.
Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump complained that the U.S. had sent more in military and economic assistance to Ukraine than its European partners, adding, “We’re looking to do a deal with Ukraine where they’re going to secure what we’re giving them with their rare earth and other things.”
Trump suggested that he’s received word from the Ukrainian government that they’d be willing to make a deal to give the U.S. access to the elements critical to the modern high-tech economy.
“I want to have security of rare earth,” Trump added. “We’re putting in hundreds of billions of dollars. They have great rare earth. And I want security of the rare earth, and they’re willing to do it.”
Trump, who had previously said he’d bring about a rapid end to the war, said talks are ongoing to bring the conflict to a close.
“We made a lot of progress on Russia, Ukraine,” Trump said. “We’ll see what happens. We’re going to stop that ridiculous war.” (read more)
Always keep in mind, the U.S. spent trillions of dollars in Afghanistan with no strings attached. We withdrew and China paid a couple billion to the Taliban government, locked in contracts, then took everything. Essentially, China hitched a free-ride on the US-led efforts to stabilize Afghanistan, then locked down all the natural resources.
Fast forward to the era of Trump-T2, and there’s always a possibility President Trump may leave Zelenskyy with his coat, a bible and $200; however, nothing is certain as the Ukraine-Russia negotiations are soon to get underway once the ground starts to thaw.
“Complicated business folks, complicated business”…
So all those hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers died so that another country could get their rare earth minerals riches?
That and our politicians could siphon off the money flow and the MIC could sell more bombs and weapons.
It wasn’t just that.
TPTB also wanted to kill off as many White males as possible.
The result is where to derive what the goal was . . .
Exactly! They want both Russian and Ukrainian men dead.
You are certainly correct about the neocon controlled West wanting to kill Russians and slavs in Ukraine as well. Linsey Graham said as much: “Ukraine military aid is a great investment because we are killing Russians.”
TPTB also wanted to take down Russia and carve it up for their natural resources. The amazing thing is they actually thought that could be accomplished. They believed Putin could be driven from office and a puppet could be provided to replace him, like Ukraine or Syria. TPTB have all of these massive intelligence assets yet they completely misjudged Russia’s capability and leadership.
An intelligent twelve year old when presented with the facts could have told them that their plan would never work. Yet look at all of the so called “experts” on FOX trotted out for the last three years to explain why “Putin is losing the war.”
That trot was the new angle of hilarity and her reset button
‘TPTB also wanted to kill off as many White males as possible.’
TPTB don’t care one way or another about ethnicity, they only care about power.
‘So all those hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers died so that another country could get their rare earth minerals riches?’
‘That and our politicians could siphon off the money flow and the MIC could sell more bombs and weapons.’
Some would suggest also adding:
And to deplete US military materiel and add to US debt to further weaken the US, while driving anxiety and fear and diverting attention from the runaway sovereign debt which must continue accelerating per Plan.
Where does all this lead? Some may observe:
War to reset the debt and bring totalitarianism down on the US was a possibility, but the newly-proposed US Sovereign Wealth Fund suggests another possible direction: Finish steering the US under the control of the globalist elites by selling them stakes in US government assets, shifting sovereign debt to SWF in the process, cementing globalists’ control of the US by this mechanism.
Brilliant. Looking forward to being a de facto serf under the globalist overlords.
okay to much vegetable soup SWF? Single White Females??
TPTB don’t care one way or another about ethnicity, they only care about power
Don’t believe it for a minute
Ethnicity is a cudgel with which they wield power
Yes, Ukrainians lose.
Now they want American soldiers to do it.
Little Green Men Walk Into Crimea
How sad for the neocons. They funded and staged a coup in Ukraine, no doubt with USAID direct Treasury funds. After the coup was complete Samantha Power famously told Lavrov that Russia would have to get its’ navy out of the Crimea. Note that this would have made the Black Sea a NATO lake. Well Mr. Putin said nuts to that and the rest is history.
As Trump is now showcasing, most upper ranking U.S. Government officials are evil and dumber than a stump. He is trying to fix that but it is a huge undertaking. Hopefully he will ultimately just fire the vast majority of them and dismantle most of the bureaucracies.
WAR! is was and always will be stupid. DO STUPID THINGS GET STUPID RESULTS. I guess the ethnic cleansing of Russians wasn’t worth it.
We could have made a peace deal in Ukraine under similar conditions back in April 2022
Point 1 .. Due to the serial abuse of Russians in Eastern Ukraine to include numerous war crimes against civilians, Ukraine must forfet possession of the Donbass oblasts, plus Crimea back to Russia
Point 2 … So that Ukraine does not devolve into an impoverished rump state, tax revenues from Donbass should continue to finance the Kievan govt, or perhaps stakes in Ukrainians resources in Donbass can be awarded. Ukraine must be supported in its econ development
Point 3: Point 2 is contingent upon Ukraine becoming a neutral party in military affairs, no joining NATO. Any attempt to do so abrogates Point 2
The Russians?
Old School: Take a subject (and prostrate) county’s Gold, Silver and Diamonds.
New School: Take a subject (and prostrate) county’s rare earth minerals.
Imagine a new way forward, unburdened by the old way forward.
The humorous thing about this is the uniparty deep state can’t win for losing. They have to be ripping their hair out. Taking on water like the Titanic. Their land minds and spies are getting popped off like m&m’s at a birthday party. Worse yet, the game has been so rigged in their favor. They are beyond slow of foot and out of shape. Seems they went to the casino to and lost it all at high stakes poker.
Wish I was a fly on a few walls. Bet the screeching and gnashing is delightful.
casino
The house always wins.
https://rumble.com/v6fo9wp-the-media-has-started-the-meltdown-over-firing-corrupt-fbi-officials..html
It just occurred to me that the media are most upset because they are losing their embed sources.
Follow up thought IF: they have lost there “inbeds” THEN: they have nothing to report except the bitter ramblings of the formerly informed.
That would explain the very unfocused reporting on people losing 6 figure jobs that none of their audiences care or can relate to.
One point to remember is that all the talk of rebuilding Ukraine is rather ingenuous about what has gone on. The part of Ukraine that has been ravaged and destroyed is the eastern part where the people have voted to be part of Russia. It is the cities in Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaparozhye, and Kherson that have been bombed and destroyed. The western part of Ukraine is largely intact as far as housing, most businesses, railroads, roads.
And the US will not be rebuilding on Russian territory in the east.
The reconstruction plans are plainly to siphon money into the pockets of the people in charge of reconstruction financing, the pockets of the US Congress who vote for money to send to Ukraine, and the contractors who will be pocketing loads of profits.
contractors
There is zero chance this is just a coincidence. Zero.
One man who is pictured with Zelensky, the shooter, Biden and Harris.
https://x.com/DefiyantlyFree/status/1835851350472827341
Spot on.
Also this makes Blackrock pissed losing control of minerals. That means the only thing they can get is farmland ( I bet that comes next)
My son is a UPS driver.
He didn’t mean to be offensive.
It’s a compliment to UPS drivers. They work for a living. Hard work. And they contribute to society in a positive way, delivering sometimes very large packages right to a person’s door. And lets not forget the millions of on-time business deliveries that are so crucial to keeping America’s busy industries moving. I would liken that comparison to a UPS driver as the civilian version of stolen valor. Trump was belittling the little man, in Trump’s style of subtle criticism.
Any person who drives a truck with always-open doors in ten degree weather WHILE WEARING SHORTS deserves honor and recognition.
We love UPS drivers and know how hard they work!
I bet if your son led a country and wandered the globe in search of billions and weapons he’d wear finery appropriate to the position and the task.
I wore much what Z-Bag wears now, I still do, and yet I too mock him, for he is not representing his office nor his nation with appropriate dignity.
It is Z-Bag that mocks the simple garb of working and military men, one might call it cultural misappropriation perhaps.
Its easy to speak when the gun isn’t at your head, and as much as I despise his weakness, I always smelled his fear! People do well to go back through Sundance’s early articles on the situation. Zelensky didn’t know he was being invaded until we told him. He went on national media and said it was a lie. Russia on his borders was a shock to him, because the CIA never told him. Zelensky HAS NEVER BEEN in charge of the Ukraine, and he was NEVER elected. The CIA fixed it, like they fixed it for Biden.
He is not a victim. He is a willing participant counting zeros in his bank account. Dressings like a 2 bit dictator from central casting. Peter Sellers was more convincing in the mouse that roared. You are right you can smell the fear, fear of his own people giving him the Mussolini treatment.
Zelensky is also an actor.
Vladimir Zelenskiy on Playing Ukraine’s President in “Servant of the People”
https://www.cinemaescapist.com/2017/08/interview-vladimir-zelenskiy-playing-ukraines-president-servant-people/
and a dancer, lest we forget
Acknowledged. Slob or an equivalently descriptive adjective may have been a better choice.
Not an easy job! You should be proud. My oldest delivers energy drinks from a local beer distributor. also not an easy job. Works long hours to boot. Before his current job he too worked for UPS.
“Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife, his slaves, or his animals, or anything of thy neighbor”
So basically the waterfall of US revenue can continue to pour into Ukraine if we get mystery minerals out of it?
Translation: I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today!
So basically a demand is suddenly made that undercuts the predatory claims of those driving the war, that puts a price before Z-Bag for all the riches he has absorbed which he can neither pay back, nor, now that a price that he cannot pretend he cannot pay, he has to reevaluate if he wants to go further into debt.
President Trump is undercutting the warring classes and the robber barons, and he is giving Ukraine a dignified future that is not dependent on being the Global Derp State’s War Whore.
It’s a damned fine move and the demonization and minimization of it completely overlooks the noble ends our President has in mind.
mystery
I could be wrong, but, I thought I read somewhere that most of Ukraines important mineral resources, including rare earth elements, are in the Donbas region, which now belongs to Russia.
You’re not wrong!
I don’t think it matters who is right if you want to make a deal.
Some factions may have a political interest in not taking yes for an answer.
https://x.com/ArkansasAngie/status/1878778420705825228
Career players may not be able to play political football without one.
I read about Russian prostitutes pretending not to be Ukrainians.
The prostitutes belonged to the former USSR, not Russia.
https://x.com/TheLastRefuge2/status/1290178656237522944
I’m not sure if Hunter Biden still has a stake in Ukraine.
Build Back Pardons
The scenario in Ukraine is so horrific right now, that maybe Trump is simply throwing ideas out on the table, as to what an albeit diminished, peaceful, maybe prosperous Ukraine could look like. Especially as he pivots now, to talk to Europe.
Up to now it’s been the never-ending Ukraine war, where soldiers of pretty much ANY age are thrown into battles rarely won, but still are always egged on by the West.
I don’t think Trump is saying ‘you OWE us big-time Ukraine, for all OUR trouble’. (Even though he listens to Lindsey too much. And is lowballing 600m UKR casualties, when the truth is probably twice that).
Aside from being an agricultural powerhouse, mining has always been strong in Ukraine.
Remember the caves of Soledar/Bakmut, the huge underground factories in Mariupol & Dnipro, etc.
If they’ve really got rare-earths & can still move them downriver to Kherson or Odessa areas, that could be key.
key
Sea of Azov
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=lm&q=azov+sea&iaxm=maps
I was saying Black Sea, because at least 3 0f the 4 eastern oblasts are essentially Russian now, & probably will remain that way. Like Crimea will also. Kherson might be split west or east of the Dneiper.
Actually the Lviv and Lutsk oblasts want to rejoin Poland if possible, while Carpathia is really Hungarian.
The new Ukraine will most likely end up much smaller, & will need their remaining ports.
Not a climate tree hugger but consider this idea….after the last few years, do any of us really want any type of agricultural products from land contaminated with the residue of munitions…or the ‘forever’ chemicals now in their land? It might be ‘rare earth’ is all they have left?
Not a lot of attacks on Farmland the breadbasket their is vast. When looking at any environmental risk one has to think in terms of parts per million or in worst case scenarios parts per billion.
Vertically challenged -dresses like a UPS driver – or like a Pennsylvania Senator
Petro from Poroshenko is taller and he looks like he lost weight.
Crossfire Hurricane 7: Make Democracy MAGA Again
I think that all bank accounts of the Biden crime family and Zalenski should be frozen until DOGE can sort out how much they stole from Operation Ukraine. At the very least. With standard IRS penalties and interest.
Build Back Debtors
“….shortly after Volodymyr Zelensky’s 2019 election win, 70 NGOs backed by USAID issued him 25 “red lines” not to cross.These directives barred Zelensky from negotiating with Russia without USAID support, restricted his control over media institutions, banned the Russian language from state media, and limited his authority to enact certain energy and banking policies.”
https://rumble.com/v6gogzy-usaid-gave-ukrainian-president-zelensky-25-post-election-red-lines-mike-ben.html
All done by the CIA. Fake election for Zelensky, and then fake election for Biden so they controlled the whole thing.
Some factions may have a political interest in not taking yes for an answer.
“I’ll be a YES on RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, and Kash Patel.”
https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1886069707599446154
Even though we’ve been robbed and it seems fair, I want what is good for the Ukrainian people too. The government of Ukraine has raped their country and whatever we do, I would hope that they can safely rebuild their lives while living in peace.
the gov’t that has abused and mistreated the people of Ukraine is THE SAME gov’t that have abused and mistreated the American people: CIA/USAID
No, no matter what is offered, should we continue to help feed a war in Ukraine, not weapons not money. However, comes the time in peace we could help rebuild for mineral rights.
The irony of our Great President Trump’s wit and shrewdness, in so far as the Ukraine is involved, is that it is wrapped around the tragedy of so many dead who died for nothing. Obama, Biden, the CIA/USAID, Victoria Nuland, and so many others have much blood on their hands and have much to answer for.
That will have to wait for God I suppose. I have faith God will be harsh. Their pride will never allow them to accept salvation so their fate is sealed.
The greatest insult of Afghanistan was leaving so much of our equipment there, abandoning the Afghans that fought with us, and now paying the Taliban millions a week.
We have built up Al Queda in a way they could only have dreamed of
This bill was not enacted into law. BOUGHT government. Rare Earths are NOT rare. It’s only CCP dumping and nanny state environmental laws in the US that prevent the US from mining and refining more than it needs WITHIN the US.
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/s2093/text
Congress finds the following:
(1)Rare earth elements are critical for advanced energy technologies, national defense, and other commercial and industrial applications.
(2)The People’s Republic of China (referred to in this subsection as China) has leveraged its monopoly control over the rare earth value chain to force corporations from the United States, Europe, Japan, and South Korea to transfer manufacturing facilities, technology, and jobs to China in exchange for secure supply contracts.
S. 2093 Rare Earth Cooperative 21st Century Manufacturing Act
Much of these from the CCP due to same problem as above. Lets do radical stuff to fix this, too.
U.S. Reaches Highest Recorded Mineral Import Reliance
January 31, 2023
https://nma.org/2023/01/31/u-s-reaches-highest-recorded-mineral-import-reliance/
I’d rather he only get 40 acres and a mule……
THIS action “lays claims” over the US government pirates have been wanting to keep for THEMSELVES in all of this.
Also, where’s the investigation of the claims by Ukraine saying “200 billion? We got 77 billion!!” THAT is a huge scandal if true… and I believe it is.
And looking back at Trump’s public interest in claiming the oil of a nation in the Middle East it now makes more sense. If US or other private interests are intending to profit from these situations, if the “US Government” officially claims interest then competing private interests take a back seat.
In the past, when the useful idiot was no longer useful, the CIA changed the narrative and had said idiot removed by force of death.
CIA /USAID may be defunded, but the “six ways from Sunday” group operates globally.
I imagine that Zelensky is negotiating for his life as well as ending the war.
This President thinks outside of the box. He is 3 steps ahead of everyone else and I am glad that he is one our side. Compare Trump to Biden, where Biden did/could/would only look out for himself, whereas Trump looks out for the good of this nation.
1 – “Russia has taken control of up to 70% of Ukraine’s mineral resources: most of the minerals are in the historically Russian Donetsk, Dnepropetrovsk and Luhansk regions, Forbes calculated.”
“Their value is 15 trillion dollars.
– FRWLRussia has taken control of up to 70% of Ukraine’s mineral resources: most of the minerals are in the historically Russian Donetsk, Dnepropetrovsk and Luhansk regions, Forbes calculated.”
“Their value is 15 trillion dollars.”
– FRWL
https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1886774031426138488
2 – If Russia takes control over the 9 Oblasts that border the Black Sea and Russia’s “heartland”, PLUS the 3 Eastern Oblasts needed for a “Buffer Zone” (below), Russia will control 85%+ of Ukraine’s mineral resources!
• Poltava
• Dnipropetrovsk
• Kirovohrad
3 – That leaves the USA squabbling over the mineral resources of the NeoNazi zone’s western Oblasts with the EU – particularly Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania that border on Oblasts with people of the same ethnicity! Those NeoNazis will NEVER give up those resources without a terrorist fight, using NATO’s donated arms against them. 😵
The descriptor, “who dresses like a UPS driver” is an insult to UPS drivers and not sufficiently insulting to Z. Personally, I like to use “in his tough guy, latrine digger’s costume.”