Russia to Trump: Back off Ukraine’s rare earths

https://www.politico.eu/article/kremlin-russia-slams-us-donald-trump-ukraine-exchange-rare-earth-resources/

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  1. > A senior Russian official slammed United States President Donald Trump’s proposal that he could militarily aid Ukraine in exchange for access to its rare earth resources.

    > “If we call things as they are, this is a proposal to buy help — in other words, not to give it unconditionally, or for some other reasons, but specifically to provide it on a commercial basis,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters Tuesday.

    > “It would be better of course for the assistance to not be provided at all, as that would contribute to the end of this conflict,” he added, about a war that was instigated by Russia.

    > Ukraine has strategic reserves of titanium, lithium, graphite and uranium, which is crucial for its future economic stability and potentially part of the calculus in balancing immediate aid with long-term sovereignty over its resources. Some of the rare earths are in areas currently under occupation by Russia, which has been waging war on Ukraine since 2014 and launched a full-scale invasion in 2022.

    > Ukraine has not yet commented on Trump’s proposal, but sharing resources with allies is part of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s “victory plan” for the war against Russia.

  3. So basically “don’t take them, we want them”. Toss pot. He looks like a broomstick handle.

  6. there’s a map on U24s website that shows concentrations of certain minerals and other things like oil in Ukraine, there is a colour cluster within luhansks main eastern side, and I’m talking a whole rainbow of minerals and oil, 

    obvs is doesn’t belong to those tossers in the LNR, it’s ukraines 

  8. This deal was going to be signed regardless, Zelensky just put it off until after inauguration so that Trump could feel like he accomplished something. So Russia isn’t entirely wrong that this is buying loyalty from the US, but the reality is that with this current US administration you have to appeal to their greed to get anything, and Ukraine accomplished this by essentially giving the US nothing they wouldn’t have given otherwise. If anyone is being taken advantage of here, it’s the ignorant assholes in the White House.

  9. Two idiot bullies fighting over something that does not belong to either of them to begin with.

  10. Ukraine should Tell the americans that they have vast oil&gas fields , it wouldn’t take long for the Yanks to clear the fields of any ruzZians.

  11. “Fine Trump. Come here and help us clean the territories from the occupiers. We will give you a 25-year lease with rather low taxation and are willing to throw in -1% in taxes per every 10,000k vatniks you vaporize.”

    I think that could work.

  13. Well if Putin just tells his troops to leave Ukraine, the USA won’t have to help Ukraine and therefore won’t get the rare earths. Easy.

  14. This bloke looks like Beaker from the Muppets… and yeah of course “leave the rare earths alone USA, if we win we definitely not plunder every last inch of Ukraine for our own enrichment”.

  15. Russia complaining about exploiting Ukraine’s resources is like a bank robber lecturing someone on financial ethics.

  16. Hey Greenland is known for it’s deposits of rare Earth metals, and we tried (are trying) to buy that country.

    *Weird*

    It’s like those tech bros are actually running the government or something. 

  17. I thought Russia went into Ukraine to get rid of all the Nazis? Now we learn they want to plunder the rare minerals… who woulda thunk.

  18. Ohhh. So the Russian invasion dream is finally mentioned in public

  19. “Back off the rare earths. It’s kinda why we invaded in the first place”

  20. Russia: “We are ready to defend Ukraine sovereignty!!”

  21. Of course Russia would hate America to get involved, that would essentially remove them from Ukraine. As we’ve seen, the Russian military is inept due to corruption, sub-par military quality and training, and a demoralized fighting force that sees no real reason to be in Ukraine in the first place.

  23. Ukraine needs to be like sure, you want them? Come get them! Then let the U.S. and Russia war it out.

  24. So we know exactly what the Russians are after in Ukraine

  25. This gives me so much hope that there really won’t be any understanding between Putin and Trump that it feels like an operation to deceive us all. Literally, Putin is telling the world that he wants for himself the same lands that Trump is demanding in order to protect Ukraine. From now on, if Putin were to finally take control of Ukraine, Trump would be a useless loser. If this were not a coordinated operation between them to deceive everyone, then the next thing I would expect is for Trump to double down on his efforts to kick Russia’s ass.

  27. Hahahaha… they’re OUR rare earths! We stole them first!!

  28. It was already clear at the beginning what they are after.

  31. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz criticized Trump’s suggestion, calling it “very egotistic, very self-centered,”

    I have news for you Olaf, EVERYTHING Trump does is very egotistical and self-centered.

  32. Now finally we are talking about the REAL reason Russia attacked Ukraine.

  33. Huh, I guess this whole thing wasn’t because “Ukraine is historically part of Russia” as Putin said. Shocker

  34. WAit, wasn’t Russia going after nazis in Ukraine? You mean they’re actually going in for other reasons? 😉 😉

  37. Didn’t Ukraine already offer this up as a condition to Biden several months ago? I feel like this is going to be a fake win for Trump… just like the tariff game he played this weekend. The man is a credit chameleon.

  40. Guess this was his “great plan” to quickly end the war he kept talking about. Make Ukraine give him what Russia’s been trying to take by force for 3 years.

  41. Zelensky 500IQ for appealing to trumps ego on this and knowing russis is too unhinged to shut up

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