Ukraine balks at signing Trump deal to hand over its mineral wealth
Ukraine balks at signing Trump deal to hand over its mineral wealth
Summary
Ukraine is hesitating to sign a U.S.-backed deal that would grant American companies access to 50% of its rare earth minerals in exchange for continued military support.
President Zelenskyy cited legal concerns and the lack of security guarantees.
The deal, pushed by Trump allies, aims to showcase Ukraine’s value to U.S. interests while reducing reliance on Chinese minerals.
However, Kyiv’s 2021 strategic partnership with the EU complicates negotiations, as European leaders resist surrendering shared resources to Washington. Talks remain ongoing.
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The audacity to frame resource extraction as "aid" would be impressive if it weren't so transparent. Ukraine's rare earth minerals aren't collateral for loans—they’re the spoils of geopolitical brinkmanship, dressed in the rotting corpse of diplomacy.
Trump’s team operates like feudal overlords, demanding tribute from a nation under siege. Those minerals power everything from missiles to smartphones. Calling this a "reimbursement" is like mugging a drowning man and calling it debt collection.
Now they’re floating troop deployments to "guard" these assets? Please. This isn’t peacekeeping—it’s a protection racket, ensuring the extraction pipeline stays open while the propaganda machine spins conquest as charity.
I figured it was more like the tributary system in imperial China
That’s a fair analogy, but even the tributary system had a veneer of mutual benefit—imperial China at least pretended to offer cultural or economic exchange. This? It’s pure extraction with none of the pretense.
The modern empire doesn’t bother with subtlety; it just calls the theft “aid” and expects applause. At least the tributary states got to keep their sovereignty on paper. Here, sovereignty is collateral damage in the race for resources.
What we’re witnessing isn’t just imperialism; it’s a corporate feudalism where nations are reduced to resource farms for the highest bidder. The tributary system had rituals; this has press releases.
China usually gave gifts back to those states which was much more valuable than the tribute itself. Koreans were famously abusing it by sending tribute multiple times a year. China had to put a limit on them because it became a problem.
Trump’s team operates like feudal overlords, demanding tribute from a nation under
That's a very apt analogy. I hadn't thought of it that way, but Trump's demands so far remind me of his stupid nonsense about making Mexico pay for his wall back in 2016.
He honestly thinks everyone's just going to lay down.
He operates under the assumption that audacity equals strategy, as if shouting demands into the void will make them manifest. The "Mexico will pay for it" fiasco was the prototype: a hollow threat wrapped in nationalist theater. It's not about anyone laying down; it's about how long they can keep up the charade before the cracks show.
The real tragedy is that these tactics aren't even subtle. It's all brute force masquerading as diplomacy, a sledgehammer where a scalpel is needed. People see through it, but the machine churns on, feeding on apathy and short memories. The question isn't whether anyone lays down—it's whether anyone stands up long enough to matter.
Fuck, everyone has been giving us communists shit for the past 8 decades for explaining this is the exact way that imperialist powers operate in their colonies. Maybe we all will finally understand now that the Ukraine war was never a conflict of Russian expansionism vs Ukrainian national defence, but an imperialist proxy war between US and Russia?
Poor Ukraine. One side wants to kill them all and steal the land, another side wants to rape its land, not to mention bordering Belarus, Slovakia and Hungary who are the bitches of Putin. We live in a sad reality
One side wants to kill them all
Not that I like fascist Putin, but isn't the civilian casualty rate in Ukraine extremely low to other conflicts we've seen recently like the genocide in Gaza or the invasion of Iraq?
Ukraine got used to weaken Putin and now the US sweeps in and recoups the cost for free. Ukrainians lose part of their country to Russia and hand over the minerals of the other half to America.
Imagine being Ukrainian and having died for this.
Being a US enemy is bad. Being a US ally is deadly
the 'deal' the diaper is working on between him and ukraine is a sham.
i think the real 'deal' is between him and putin: 'give us (me) half of some of the goodies there and we'll not stand in your way to take the whole thing'
I agree that the deal is a sham, but I think the goal was to present a deal so obviously unacceptable to Ukraine that they would be bound to refuse and Trump can then point to it and say Ukraine is uncooperative therefore he can refuse to support them any further.
Handover the mineral wealth in Crimea and other occupied areas subject to them being under Ukrainian control but leave mineral wealth in free Ukraine out of the deal to provide some motivation for Dopey Donald.
Seriously. The biggest deposit is sitting in occupied land...
Trumps idea here is much more than the usual Trump stupidity. First, Trump gets fat mineral rights for doing about nothing. The Ukraine loses 20% of its original (pre-2014) size, but gains no real security like a NATO membership. And the Europeans should work and pay for all this, while having no say in the whole thing.
This is no deal, this is rape.
You’re one hundred percent correct aside from:
theUkraine.
EU could just make him a better deal?
Just tell the US they can have any resources they can liberate from Russia. We’d have tanks at Moscow in hours.
hand over half its mineral wealth, no? "agreement to hand over half of his country’s rare earth minerals"
even mild half-lie clickbait is brain-stupifying misimplication.
from what i understand most of the resource heavy regions of ukraine are in the east/controlled by russia- that most of these minerals are not even of cost-effective value to mine and obtain...
but then, what do i know, all i see is mere cracks in the western monoculture narrative of 'russia bad'.
zelensky wants security guarantees. seems security guarantees are in short supply-- nobody gave any thought to russia's priority for same.
educate yourself- you'll be hard pressed to find a more honest and reality based summarization of the russia ukraine conflict, what caused it, chas freeman is an ex US ambassador and consummate professional, i trust him more than i trust random shills on the internet, and a lot more than US news media propaganda.
https://chasfreeman.net/the-many-lessons-of-the-ukraine-war/
Ukraine gave up its nukes in exchange for security guarantees. Why would they trust this attempt at pillaging for “security”?
you seem not to understand that the reason zelensky is turning down the deal is in part BECAUSE of the lack of security guarantees... can't even keep the narrative straight in your head
I have a very serious question to ask of you. How does Putin's dick taste? Is it salty?
lazy, trite, tired... you are the kind of person who offers nothing to any conversation. its your business for you to commit to being wrong and play to the bots and brainwashed dimwits.. you're everything you pretend to hate about your political counterparts in america.
Hahahaha.
Dude, like half the reason of this war is about control over Ukraine’s resources.
It’s like his version of Putin’s special military operation.
Special wartime profiteering?
At this point I wonder who is worse Trump or Putin.
Wasn't the US supporting a genocide until like a month ago? Is this question really only popping right now in your head?
Both are worse than the other.
Well duh. Trump is incapable of meaning anything he says.
Obviously this is not something you can base a deal on, but I think a lot of the stupid shit Trump is doing will be undone if the US ever has another election. So in four years, the deal will be overturned or renegotiated. Maybe it can even be declared void?
I hate to break it to you, but this is Peter Thiel and Curtis Yarvin's party now. America died in November and gave way to some bastardized techno-autocracy-kleptocracy mutant.
Here's a great piece to get up to speed quickly. Good luck out there! https://newrepublic.com/article/183971/jd-vance-weird-terrifying-techno-authoritarian-ideas
Something like this is why I put an if in "if the US ever has another election".
The Republican Party controls the entire U.S. federal government.
Why would they ever willingly give that up? Because the laws say they have to? The laws they've been ignoring?