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DJ Synikus Makisimus

(1,438 posts)
Fri Feb 28, 2025, 02:20 AM Feb 2025

Inside The Ukraine-US Minerals Deal (It's Not What You Might Think) - Analysis

Eurasia Review (Portland, OR)
https://www.eurasiareview.com/28022025-inside-the-ukraine-us-minerals-deal-its-not-what-you-might-think-analysis/#google_vignette

You can read the article yourself, it's not long; but to my mind, the key point of the article is:

"the agreement is just an intention to set up the fund, not its actual legal establishment, experts noted. It’s unclear when exactly that will happen. That also means there’s still plenty of wiggle room about how it will actually look."

So basically it's an agreement to keep negotiating an agreement. Trump got pretty much the same thing from the Russians in Saudi Arabia recently, a four part agreement to keep talking. That's it. So what we have isn't the alpha male master of the universe forcing Ukraine to repay the arms sent, it's the fart of the deal - as usual. I'm sure things will be wound up soon, however; "in two weeks," just like Trump's health plan to replace Obamacare and his infrastructure legislation during the first Trump Presidency.

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Lastly, the Ukrainian Geological Survey posted a grid of where valuable minerals are located in the country, so you can get a general idea about what stuff is in zones under Russian occupation and what isn't:
https://www.geo.gov.ua/en/critical-raw-materials/



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Inside The Ukraine-US Minerals Deal (It's Not What You Might Think) - Analysis (Original Post) DJ Synikus Makisimus Feb 2025 OP
thanks. good information. (and certainly more sober and nuanced stopdiggin Feb 2025 #1

stopdiggin

(15,709 posts)
1. thanks. good information. (and certainly more sober and nuanced
Fri Feb 28, 2025, 03:17 AM
Feb 2025

that a great deal of what is splashed across our TV screens!)

'An agreement to have an agreement ... At some point in the future ..' Sums it up fairly nicely.

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