NYP– The Trump administration and the Ukrainian government finalized a deal Wednesday creating a joint fund to boost the reconstruction of the war-torn nation, calling for investment in Kyiv’s oil, gas and rare mineral industries.
Ukraine’s Economy Minister Yulia Svyrydenko posted on X that the fund would be managed 50/50 and that future military aid from Washington could be considered a contribution.
“Together with the United States, we will create a fund that will attract Western investments to our country,” Svyrydenko said. “We will manage this fund jointly with the United States. Neither party will have a majority vote, reflecting an equal partnership between Ukraine and the United States.”
The fund will be filled with income only from new licenses “for projects in the field of critical materials and oil and gas,” which will be split in half between the US and Ukraine, according to Svyrydenko.
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I’m reminded of Max Bialistok in The Producers. How many percent of those Ukrainian minerals has he secretly sold?
“Springtime for Zelenskyy”
Who hasn’t Zelenskyy sold his mineral rights to? I’m thinking the difference here is Trump has the U.S. military to enforce this deal.
War for profit at the expense of Ukrainian lives and the US taxpayer.
Who are the contractors who will make the gobs of money from this deal?
Guessing they will send Hunter Biden over to supervise the operation, as he’s already got experience? This whole thing stinks – bigly.
“Long awaited deal”
This deal is always just around the corner, innit?
It’s almost as if PDT is working on a “deal” to string along the neocons, their media and of course, the little green goblin who really has no cards to play. Especially the Jack of Minerals.
Have there been any big tranches of weapons or money to Ukraine lately? I haven’t seen anything in the news, and you know they would love to broadcast that if they could. Instead, they keep telling us about the mineral deal which is soon to happen. But somehow, it never does. Why is that?
Recall the PDT initially told Ukraine that we would need mineral rights as payment for PAST shipments of money and weapons. But now PDT is saying that we’ll accept mineral rights for FUTURE shipments of money and weapons. What’s going over there right now? Maybe some ISR, but not much more, is my guess.
I’m going to lay down a marker and bet that not a single load of rare earth will ever be mined in Ukraine by or for America, and we are done with the aid, save some token gestures. Furthermore, this was PDT’s plan all along, and Putin understands completely what PDT is doing. PDT has the neocons and media cats the mineral deal laser pointer.
If Trump really wants to end war and fix things, he should unite Russia with the Ukrainian people so they can war on corrupt government, first the illegitimates in Ukraine, then the corrupt schmucks in the EU, NATO and yes, USA who empowered and enthroned those evil corrupt thugs.
No matter how you look at it the US taxpayer got fucked. Billions were paid, billions were made, and billions were spent. What did you get out of it? You got FUCKED!!!
Anonymous That’s right, over and over and over again. I can only think of one way to stop it.