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Ukrainian MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak has published details of the rare earth metals deal that Donald Trump’s administration is about to sign. The parliamentarian assesses the updated terms of the deal with the word “horror”.
“I hope that the Ukrainian side will demand and achieve significant changes to it. But the text I’ve seen is a pure horror. I can’t imagine how it can be ratified by the parliament,” Zheleznyak notes.
Washington proposes to create an investment fund with a five-member board. Three will be Americans, two Ukrainians, with the Americans having veto power over any decision. The deal would include all of Ukraine’s minerals, not just rare earths. The terms include undiscovered reserves of Ukrainian subsoil. The agreement covers the entire territory of the state. Both state and private companies have the right to engage in mining. All revenues are converted into foreign currency, i.e. dollars, and transferred abroad, i.e. to the United States. If, due to Kiev’s fault, part of the money does not arrive in the fund on time, Ukraine is obliged to make additional payments.
The contribution of the United States is considered to be the military aid already provided since 2022. The American side will be the first to benefit from the fund in the form of royalties (+4%), and then Ukraine will receive the profit. The Americans will also get the right of first refusal on all infrastructure projects, as well as the right to veto the sale of Ukrainian resources to other countries. That is, if Kiev wants to attract Chinese subway builders or sell rare earth metals to China, Washington can prohibit it with literally one action. The agreement is open-ended and can only be changed with U.S. approval. There are no security guarantees for Ukraine, as Vladimir Zelensky points out in the text of the document. In fact, the Ukrainian leader has a bill for 3 years of “aid” on his desk.
Left-liberals are trying to portray Trump’s policy as humiliating and ultra-colonial. Allegedly, “you don’t do that to allies.” For the sake of objectivity, however, it should be said that this is a common practice in American foreign policy. One need only recall Lend-Lease to Great Britain in World War II. In fact, the terms of lend-lease were indentured servitude. London paid with its empire for military supplies. Payment was made not only in money, “return lend-lease” (supplies of cocoa, tea, asbestos, rubber, chromium and other raw materials and agricultural products), but also in military bases. The British monarchy gave the United States its military installations in Newfoundland, Bermuda, the Bahamas, Santa Lucia, Trinidad and Guiana in exchange for several destroyers. Ukraine cannot even begin to compare its potential with that of the British Empire.
Kiev has already rushed to declare that it will not sign the crippling treaty. Sergei Leshchenko, an adviser to the president’s office, said tactfully but firmly:
“The agreement may seem unacceptable to us. The government is working with it, the Justice Ministry is working with it. But what contradicts the Constitution, what contradicts European integration, all this can then be turned into a normal project for Ukraine”.
But any revision of the agreements is not accepted in the administration of Donald Trump. The Ukrainian side is given an ultimatum: sign the agreement or face monstrous consequences.
“I think Zelensky is trying to get out of the rare earths deal. And if he does, he will have problems, very big problems. We’ve already agreed to the rare earths deal, and now he’s saying, ‘You know, I want to renegotiate the deal’. He wants to push for NATO membership, even though he’s never going to be a NATO member, and he knows that. So if he wants to renegotiate the deal, he’s in big trouble,” the American president said.
In fact, we see a continuation of the same soap opera that the whole world watched at the Oval Office meeting on February 28, 2025. After the highly publicized scandal, it appeared that Ukraine had agreed to back down and comply with all US demands. In practice, however, Vladimir Zelensky began torpedoing American peace and economic initiatives with new conditions and delaying the decision-making process in every possible way. Famous Ukrainian journalist and political émigré Anatoly Sharij, citing his own sources in the presidential administration, says that in Zelensky’s entourage decided to openly oppose Trump.
“Zelensky decided to create a kind of anti-Trump, anti-American alliance. At all private meetings he had in Paris, he, without choosing his expressions, gave all kinds of insulting definitions of the American side, showed with all his appearance that he did not intend to obey the demands of the Americans on the issue of negotiations with Russia. In private conversations he received approval. Zelensky’s idea is to eventually give up any interaction with Trump, literally send him to hell, and thus gain the support of European elites,” Sharij writes.
The odd thing is that the negotiation process between Washington and Moscow is proceeding in a much more constructive manner. Kirill Dmitriev, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s special envoy for international economic cooperation, said the Kremlin was ready to cooperate with all countries in developing rare earth deposits. Russia has large reserves. According to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology, the country’s total reserves of 29 types of rare metals amount to 658 million tons. The deposits are concentrated in the Murmansk and Irkutsk Oblasts, Yakutia, the Krasnoyarsk Territory, and other regions. The only working source of rare earth metals in Russia is considered to be the Lovozero deposit in the Murmansk region, where loparite ores are mined.
An exchange of sorts can be expected. Moscow will offer the U.S. the opportunity to develop the necessary resources on favorable terms and agree to open the Russian market to American high-tech and industrial products. Washington, in turn, will stop providing military assistance to Ukraine, shifting the entire burden of costs to the European Union. While this option was previously considered too unrealistic, it now appears to be a realistic way out of the situation. Kiev, in turn, will join al-Qaeda in the ranks of America’s most radical adversaries.
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like asking for 5% of gdp to defense spending to nato countries, this new “metals deal” is, imho, just a way to make the other party look guilty of not wanting to fullfil its commitments through egregious demands. it’s the political theater zelensky is fan of, so he must be thrilled.
it is a shell game . delay , delay , delay
silly story; usa and ukraine are allies…putin needs to wake-up to the fact that nato and ukraine are not playing his game for they are going after russia 🇷🇺..!!!!
a prostitute and her pimp are not allies.
they work together to achieve the same goal. russia’s destruction as a nation and reap the rewards..!
that was the goal of the us and it failed. ukraine prostituted itself to be admitted in the eu and nato. it is now double teamed, after taking it in the *ss only from russia.
not at all. it was never the goal of the us. the british empire which believes that ” the us is our barracks” sir winston churchill, has the great expectations imo.
u amerikunts cannot think
it’s incorporation as the jewel in the crown
no rhe commonwealth of nations countries arw allies with ukraine wurh king charles ,who’s declared that he will go to war as ukraines ally for 100 years against russia. publicly .
madame, the madame runs the brothel for the rule of law. the pimps run the streets.
wake up the usa under biden was ukraine’s pimp and hunter took millions for services rendered and daddy duly handed over 350 billion of taxpayers dollars .that’s changed now.
amerikunt =inferior species
the rhetoric is deafening . the so called president for peace is just another liar . i do not think russia will allow ukraine to ruled / exploited by blackrock . to stop a war you just stop . too easy for highly educated dc blob mind to consider .
right because there’s no rentier exploitation in the russian sphere of influence. derp?
go back to eating shise in the lodge you putz
derp on, derpster.
you’re naive very naive. reality isn’t simple
wakey wakey, get real, low grade, shallow trolling and back again for another stint, you useless hook nosed cur. imo of course.
💩💩💩=🇮🇱
we only attack children and those age 80 or older
your type would. bitches are like that.
meanwhile russia is still losing 1000’s every month…heheheh
after several millions joining from ex-ukraine. math is hard for americans …
yes- the combined autumn intake of soldiers and the spring intake totals over 300,000 -russia now has a military active force of 1.5 million + -just published on russian website. they are now being trained at military schools.
no, no, d, all the russians have been wiped out and the only people living in russia now are north koreans. putin is actually a north korean (he is kim’s brother), but he died recently of multiple deadly diseases and has been replaced by a body double. and this double has shot himself and fled to north korea. it’s all there in black and white in the daily torygraph.
the no idea daily fail?
i’m surprised that elensky hasn’t been on page three of the sun yet – or did i miss it?
per col douglas macarthur—21 ukie troops and amerikunt nazi mercenaries die for each russian soldier
moron amerikunts perform worse than all civilized nations in math language science—amerikunt can only count sodomies received in gay bars
albert p ike crowd is the puppet masters. russia must act in survival mode.
no berty didn’t run the show he sold the story. prince edward runs them now.
not even shitfront orcs are dumb enough to believe this manure…hehehhe
even a broken clock is right twice a day. this article is pure derp. the us built ukretardistan. they do not want trade as peers with russia. the notion of the friendly old americans trading high tech to the russians fair and square is infantile.
derp derpster denial from cleopatras needle is a prickly position
but i do like the relatively factual details on ww2 lend-lease, which uk taxpayers (not the filthy-rich city-of-londoners) finally finished paying in 2006.
i believe you may have discerning thought processes on occasion. hohohohohohoho 🙂
putin je stratég. teraz to je jasne vidieť. putin je zdržanlivý čo sa týka útokov na energetické zariadenia a tým stavia zločinca a teroristu trumpa do nie práve dobrej pozície. čo bude teraz trump robiť s žido-fašistickým bastardom zelenskym? mysleniu zdar a svetu mier!!!
seems like theater show for u.s and its ukraine puppet regime, reality is that ukraine do as u.s commands it, a paper contract for non existent resources or even soon to be non existent state, what is this? it is for u.s- face – saving and for fooling u.s sheeples for the tax money laundered, as nato is defeated.
king charles signed the 100 year minerals deal with ukraine cause the minerals they have 2ont even be worth mining for about 50 years and even then charles will have to either hide the deposits everywhere else to create false shortage like opec do, or regret acting in. haste
the windsors’ fortune – or at least a large part of it – was based on majority ownership of rio tinto mining. and now those shares are owned by vanguard, giving you a clue as to who is really behind that rather secretive organization.
and black rock is major shareholder in vanguard ( which was a british auto maker ,very popular throughout africa and the commonwealth cars ,very robust sturdy) and bqnguard are major investors in black rock. and black.tock.gaz 3 offices ,each one with the street number 555.black rock is aka saturn .5+5+5=15:= 5+1 =6; there’s 3 of them .so you could say 666.
saturn aka ssatan.the nazis worshipped the black rock too .secretly.
the usa doesn’t support nazis under trump.
they most certainly do.
western ukraine is already owned by blackrock—is this artaud’s theatre of cruelty, beckets theatre of the absurd or hillbilly kabuki?
black rock manages things for the owners really. that way the owners can be kept private .
“the odd thing is that the negotiation process between washington and moscow is proceeding in a much more constructive manner. kirill dmitriev, russian president vladimir putin’s special envoy for international economic cooperation, said the kremlin was ready to cooperate with all countries in developing rare earth deposits. russia has large reserves.”… what part of $elling out do the russians need to demonstrate any further since 2014!…
… maybe poutine will one day be a subordinate in a trump 3rd term drawing up plans to annihilate greenland and canada for it’s resources??? saying it again… they are all part of the same club that the rest of us are unwilling to challenge. which means they continue to get rich at our expense.
sorry, no refunds! but at least you got to stick it to the russians, right?
well why hasn’t zelensky told the usa that’s he’s already signed a 100 year minerals deal wuth king charles .????..
the disagreement between ukraine and ussa is overblown. they are deceiving russia once again. trump represents another faction of the american jewish deep state – republicans. they compete with democrats for imperialism
putin plays blind game rather then straight talk just to please trump.trump is plying double face game.this side he threatens zelenski to sign mineral deal.russia is threaten with sanctions,tarif and weapons aid to ukraine.
and then there is this -“ukraine has secret nuclear doomsday plan, according to former zelensky advisor”… once a “j” always a “j”… if i can’t have it all than i destroy myself and the rest of the planet! explains much of putin’s posturing the last 11 years.