Zelensky Rejects Trump Administration Demand for Half of Ukraine’s Mineral Resources
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President Volodymyr Zelensky publicly faulted the American proposal because it did not include security guarantees.

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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  • werefreeatlast@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 days ago

    I love going to the SanDiego area swap meets. There are at least 3 big ones… National city, El Cajon and Oceanside. There, many people come haggle and barter to get used or grade B products. Maybe Trump should start there?

    Anyone who has ever gone there knows that you don’t go for the jugular of your cash cow. If you’re a buyer, you wanna be a nice mosquito… Look around a few times to see what you wanna get, go elsewhere, and then come back. If you are selling, you don’t kill the mosquito, buy you know how much blood to give. As a buyer you find a thing you don’t want, which is similar to the thing you do want so you can trade down or somehow not show interest in the actual thing you want.

    Now the entire world knows that Trump is an idiot and wants 50% of all natural resources. It could have been 90% of all uranium for example. Bug nah, look, here are all my cards! Take a good look see!

    That’s Trump’s are of the deal and it’s ass. It doesn’t mater if he actually gets anything from it. Its ass. We lose, they lose, ruzzia wins. Maybe we should have a well trained Lego dealing kid to negotiate a better deal.