Trump says he wants Ukraine to supply US with rare earths

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1. U.S. President Donald J. Trump told reporters today that talks are ongoing between the U.S. and Ukraine to supply the U.S. with critical rare earths as payment for the billions in aid sent to the Eastern European nation for its war effort against Russia. Ukraine, who has large deposits of Uranium, lithium, and titanium, is reportedly open to the deal according to President Trump. The U.S. special envoy to Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, is set to visit Ukraine sometime this month.

2. Yeah because he screwed Canada so we are jacking our prices on him.

   These are all self inflicted wounds by Trump.

3. Ukraine would (should) take this deal if US will guarantee doubling the military support

   The minerals are in eastern ukraine so US would have to assist in removing russia in eastern ukraine first.

   I’m positive ukraine would rather let US access even 80% of their minerals while they regaining their 2022 territories, versus russia having both territories, resources and minerals.

4. Good idea since Ukraine doesn’t have all these environmental regulations to slow down development

5. Sounds like Trump really is after the Uranium Deposits which he can use to build more nuclear weapons to ‘make his big red button even more bigger’. 

   Also: why does it sound more like blackmailing rather a fair trade agreement?
   (since Trump isn’t interested in Europe or Ukraine i’m not even considering other reasons tbh).

6. Most of the rare earth metals are in the occupied regions though not entirely. Dnipropetrovsk oblast which is under full Ukrainian control has a lot of these rare earths.

   Hopefully a deal can be made where we get the rare earth metals from that region in exchange for strong military support to at least keep the lines frozen. Since Fall 2024, Russia has gotten the territorial upper hand and it needs to return to a stalemate at least so there’s incentive for Putin to come to the table.

7. How does one setup a mine in such conditions though? 

8. Canada has a bunch of Rare Earths minerals too, just saying. ☕️

9. This was already in the works. Zelensky delayed it because he knew that man-child Trump would want credit: https://kyivindependent.com/kyiv-delayed-minerals-deal-with-us-to-let-trump-take-credit-nyt-reports/

10. Take the deal if it means immediate NATO entry and future EU assurances with discounts for Ukraine in military purchases from the US.

11. So he can give them to Elon for Tesla batteries

12. That’s quite reasonable for Trum’s standards.

13. One view on this is that Trump actually *does* want to support Ukraine without being labeled a “sucker” for doing so by his base. So making a rare-earths deal gives him cover.

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