Summary
Ukrainian officials were advised not to sign a U.S. proposal on accessing rare earth minerals, as it prioritized U.S. interests and lacked security guarantees for Ukraine, according to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
The document, presented by U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bassent during a Kyiv visit, was intended as compensation for U.S. aid.
Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, Zelenskyy stressed any agreement must ensure both financial benefits and security for Ukraine amid ongoing Russian aggression, and Ukraine is preparing a counter proposal.
Even if the USA promised total war against Russia until Ukraine is completely free plus 50 years of protection, who would believe a single letter in an agreement with Murica today??
Contracts like those always have extensive breach clauses for ass coverage for both sides.
And who is going to enforce a breach?
trump himself re-negotiated nafta and is now renegging on his own deal placing tariffs on Canada and Mexico
My first thought is that payments are staggered and if they don’t arrive the contract ends. Bog standard clause. Wild man trump isn’t going to risk American lives over enriching his mates. Americans wouldn’t tolerate it either.
Having only local workers as part of the contract would also remove any boots on the ground to remove.
Second one that occurred is WTO.
Surely you joke?
No I don’t. What mother is going to happily send their child off to war over a contract?
I mean… How many bags of onions are we talking here?
One. Absolute best offer.
Ok, ok. One bag potatoes too.
Ladas only for early sign ups.
No sure about the happily part but pretty much every modern conflict has been over stealing resources or political posturing
That last part I fully agree with but very obviously enriching already very rich people at the cost of your child’s life (versus for example keeping oil prices low for the average Joe hidden behind a war of being the good guy aka gulf war 1).
I just don’t see it happening. I can’t see the average US soldier and especially their parents rallying around “they broke our contract!”.
They had to run in the middle of the night from their last base in Afghanistan. They are a joke
That’s not very fair, the US also promised Ukraine protection if they’d removed their nukes in the 90s…
FYI
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Ukraine had the world’s third largest nuclear arsenal on its territory. When Ukrainian-Russian negotiations on removing these weapons from Ukraine appeared to break down in September 1993, the U.S. government engaged in a trilateral process with Ukraine and Russia. The result was the Trilateral Statement, signed in January 1994, under which Ukraine agreed to transfer the nuclear warheads to Russia for elimination. In return, Ukraine received security assurances from the United States, Russia and Britain; compensation for the economic value of the highly-enriched uranium in the warheads (which could be blended down and converted into fuel for nuclear reactors); and assistance from the United States in dismantling the missiles, missile silos, bombers and nuclear infrastructure on its territory.
Well they had been receiving aid against Russia until now…
After Russia broke the agreement and attacked Ukraine, the US should have stepped in immediately and this entire was would have been prevented. I mean back in 2014 when the Russians took Crimea.