Probably a good thing, the US sucked at it anyway. Ukraine was going to be forced to concede so much… Art of the Deal strikes again.
Nah, Trump got what he wanted, the minerals deal. Now he can keep sanctions on China for longer while we strip mine Ukraine for rare earth minerals.
Lol, we aren’t going to be mining anything. Rare earth minerals aren’t rare because they’re only located in isolated places, they’re rare because they are only present in small amounts when mining other materials.
The hard part is the refining of rare earth minerals because it requires large investments in refineries to separate the materials and consolidate them. Infrastructure that Ukraine or America haven’t invested in.
The minerals deal is just something that trump can point to as a “win” when in reality it’s not worth anything. Just like everything this administration does, it’s nothing but smoke and mirrors.
In that case, looks like Zelenskyy had the cards.
Ukraine doesn’t even have significant rare earth deposits. Nothing worth mining.
However, those aren’t the only thing in the deal. Bunch of other minerals are in there, and oil and natural gas.
I’m aware, but they’re also unfortunately rare in the US, and we need batteries if we don’t maintain a good trade relationship with China.
America actually has plenty of rare earth deposits, it’s just not profitable to mine them and then build facilities to refine them.
Bro the US isn’t going to mine shit in an active war zone. The mineral deal might be beneficial if peace is reached but not before that.
Typical Trump deal: nothing substantial, but he loudly claims credit for it anyway.
Doesn’t really matter. Trump got a deal. In Donnie’s diseased mind, it doesn’t matter what it says, only that it exists.
It all makes sense when you realize he’s a trust-fund idiot cosplaying as a businessman.
It’s going to take years if not decades to setup the full supply chain off that deal, he’ll likely be dead by then and China will be laughing the whole time.
Honestly, from everything I’ve seen so far, the new mineral deal seems pretty good and fair.
That depends on the deal actually being followed.
Trump has zero intention of following through on any deal he makes, if he finds another option that is more beneficial to himself and himself alone, he will reneg on the deal in a microsecond.
Yeah. If it’s a fair deal, Trump won’t stick to it.
Ironically, that might be the most useful contribution to eventual peace in Ukraine the US has made for some time now.
Thanks, I guess.
So much for ending the war in one day.
Well, at least the US did remove a giant obstacle to a lasting peace from the war - Trump.
Lmao
Another promise broken. What a loser.
End the war before even taking office. Kept moving the bar, then eventually just pivoted and pretended there was no bar.
Just gotta stop testing, ya know?
There’s no hurricanes if there’s no NOAA. There’s no bird flu if there’s no CDC.
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BLOTUS
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Once again demonstrating how unreliable the American government has become.
It will be a very long time before the international community trusts America.
Give it a century
Or millenia, if at all…
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“We got what we wanted I don’t give a fuck now” - Trump.
Good, the US can fuck right off. Trump is a nincompoop as are his followers. No way they’d be capable of solving a geopolitical conflict.
hey look it’s almost like Donnie has no idea what to do about anything
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Putin wouldn’t fold. Trump doesn’t know how to handle that so he noped out.
You mean Zelinsky wouldn’t fold. Trump never wanted Putin to actually fold.
Zelensky folded. He signed the mineral deal.
The deal he signed has little in common with the initial mineral deal, and this one is actually good for Ukraine.
I thought the invasion would end 80 days ago. Trump said so. 🤭🤡🤡🤡
This is not bad news, well for putin it is IMO.
Question is: now that we got the big loud bully out of the house, can the EU and maybe someone else who is sensible, like Canada, enter the room and bring actual diplomatic value to this sharade?
Probably not. Russia’s motives dont stem from a communications failure. They stem from predatory imperialist intent, and they arnt scared of the EU or Canada.
If Europe shows resolve, Russia’s ambitions will crumble.
No
The EU will continue funding Ukraine’s war, allowing thousands of people to die on both sides of the war. And they’ll slowly ease on Russian restrictions if they feel like they need it for economic growth.
The EU could force Russia’s hand and end this war but it doesn’t seem like they want to
Please explain how this would happen?
The EU needs to put actual restrictions on Russia, Russian oligarchs and Russian allies/goods, not just a not even fully opaque curtain that is easily circumvented like it is atm (even by EU members).
They also need to properly support Ukraine’s military so that they can repel Russian troops back to Ukraine’s borders instead of just giving them enough ammo and guns that will allow them to continue this war of attrition. Maybe they could use all the resources that Germany sends to Israel for example.
And then they need to do what was said above. Actually come to the table with Russia and negotiate the end of the war.
But atm that isn’t possible because Russia is not being forced to. They made their ground and ofc aren’t keen on giving it back and Ukraine is also not willing to give part of the country to Russia (as they shouldn’t). And the EU politicians are happy to be profiting of this war and shift their economies to war economies in order to fill their pockets further.
We haven’t done shit for climate change and it’s not even being discussed anymore. And it will only get worse.
