• lefaucet@slrpnk.net
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    14 hours ago

    Trump is demanding mineral resources as well as forfeiture of the 20% of Ukrainian territory currently occupied by Russia in exchange for enacting some unspecified plan to get Russia to stop invading Ukraine.

    Zelenski said sure, but he needs a security guarantee that if Russia continues invading Ukrainian territory the US will help defend Ukraine. This very reasonable

    Trump refuses to offer that guarantee and offers no details on any plan to keep Putin from invading further.

    From Zelenski’s perspective this is the US stealing his country’s mineral wealth for a Trump handshake, which is completely meaningless. It’s a bad deal and is unlikely to help the people of Ukraine

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      13 hours ago

      Can I ask a question in good faith? If Zelensky agrees to this deal without any “securities” how many Americans, and how much of the Army Core of Engineers are deployed to Ukraine to setup infrastructure?

      What does a “mineral resource” look like? Is that a parcel? Or an operation? Who owns it?

      And how is this not creating a defacto military base in Ukraine, Unspoken. And providing Ukraine with the American seal of security?

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        5 hours ago

        It’s all in the unspecified plan that Zelenski hasn’t seen, much less the press.

        I’m reminded of Trump’s “concepts of a plan” for replacing the Affordable Care Act.

        It sounds like there is no plan and this is just another grift