Revealed: Trump’s confidential plan to put Ukraine in a stranglehold – US president demands higher share of Ukrainian GDP than reparations imposed on Germany at Versailles

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/02/17/revealed-trump-confidential-plan-ukraine-stranglehold/

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  1. The Telegraph exclusively reports:

    [Donald Trump’s demand for a $500bn (£400bn) “payback” from Ukraine](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/02/11/trump-says-ukraine-may-be-russian-one-day/) goes far beyond US control over the country’s critical minerals. It covers everything from ports and infrastructure to oil and gas, and the larger resource base of the country.

    The terms of the contract that landed at Volodymyr Zelensky’s office a week ago amount to the US economic colonisation of Ukraine, in legal perpetuity. It implies a burden of reparations that cannot possibly be achieved. The document has caused consternation and panic in Kyiv.

    The Telegraph has obtained a draft of the pre-decisional contract, marked “Privileged & Confidential’ and dated Feb 7 2025. It states that the US and Ukraine should form a joint investment fund to ensure that “hostile parties to the conflict do not benefit from the reconstruction of Ukraine”.

    The agreement covers the “economic value associated with resources of Ukraine”, including “mineral resources, oil and gas resources, ports, other infrastructure (as agreed)”, leaving it unclear what else might be encompassed. “This agreement shall be governed by New York law, without regard to conflict of laws principles,” it states.

    The US will take 50pc of recurring revenues received by Ukraine from extraction of resources, and 50pc of the financial value of “all new licences issued to third parties” for the future monetisation of resources. There will be “a lien on such revenues” in favour of the US. “That clause means ‘pay us first, and then feed your children’,” said one source close to the negotiations.

    It states that “for all future licences, the US will have a right of first refusal for the purchase of exportable minerals”. Washington will have sovereign immunity and acquire near total control over most of Ukraine’s commodity and resource economy. The fund “shall have the exclusive right to establish the method, selection criteria, terms, and conditions” of all future licences and projects. And so forth, in this vein. It seems to have been written by private lawyers, not the US departments of state or commerce.

    President Zelensky himself proposed the idea of giving the US a direct stake in Ukraine’s rare earth elements and critical minerals on a visit to Trump Tower in September, hoping to smooth the way for continued arms deliveries.

    **Read the terms:** [**https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/02/17/revealed-trump-confidential-plan-ukraine-stranglehold/**](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/02/17/revealed-trump-confidential-plan-ukraine-stranglehold/)

  2. This is patently ridiculous. Trump is Putin’s thrall. Not everything is about making money. Trump is constitutionally incapable of doing the right thing.

  3. That’s truly horrific extortion. Only winners here are us and russia.

  4. Why let Russia subjugate Ukraine when we could do it ourselves? 🙄

  5. Dont need enemies with allies like Trump‘s America I guess

  7. Absolutely shameful and it will live on in the history books as such.

  8. Trump looked at Molotov-Ribbentrop and took it as inspiration.

  9. Ironic this was all about them losing sovereignty to Russia, when in reality the US is the one trying to steal it.

  10. If Ukraine is the country being invaded, then isn’t Russia the one that we should be demanding higher shares of?

  12. This is a “protection racket”, like what mobsters do to small businesses, better known as “extortion”.

    This is what happens when you give a lifelong scumbag landlord power.

  13. Trump is attempting to beat Russia and North Korea’s “Pariah State world record. It’s one of the few things he could possibly prove his stance of “America is the best at everything” in. Losing it all.

  14. In this context, it should be Russia being penalised. He’s punishing a country being invaded by an aggressor, for defending themselves. What a fucking disgusting clown.

  15. HE’s a small brained, empty hearted, souless scumbag. He doesn’t care about human suffereing or world stability, he cares only for how much he can fuck you on a deal to brag about it later. I hope he disappears up his own asshole with a sideways pienapple.

  16. If this happens, it will once and for all show that you cant take US as ally.

  17. All this fucking idiot had to do was not change the status quo and keep sending aide. Ukraine would eventually bleed Russia dry. And Trump could claim he alone defeated Moscow, something every us president has been salivating over since the 50s.

  18. Before the outbreak of WWI, the Austro-Hungarians gave Serbia an ultimatum that they knew Serbia could not accept.

    I feel this is Trump’s version of it. If Ukraine agree, the US benefits but without any need to actually do anything if Putin decides to break the deal. If it declines, Trump can pretend he tried but Ukraine didn’t want to negotiate – so Putin can do what he wants.

  19. 🙄 it doesn’t surprise me that this administration would want to punish Ukraine more then they want to punish Russia. If there’s any country that needs to pay reparations it’s them but like usual trump is Putins bitch and won’t push for it.

  20. Trump’s demands are so unreasonable that I don’t think he expects Zelensky to agree, particularly since the US does not guarantee it will follow through on its promises. More likely, Trump knows Zelensky will reject the offer, which gives the Trump Administration a pretext to cut off aid and attempt to force Ukraine into an agreement that is extremely favorable to Russia.

  22. I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again…the West needs to collectively turn its back on the US.

  23. I said it a few years ago that if Trump wins, US troops in Ukraine wouldn’t be out of the question. It also wouldn’t be out of the question those troops would fight on the side of Russia. Sounded insane back then, but sounds a lot less insane now, doesn’t it? Ukraine will refuse this deal. Putin will agree to it, provided USA helps deal with the “rebels” (aka Ukrainians). No need to worry about nukes, since Ukraine doesn’t have any. Win-win. For Putin it’s a huge win – he gets the whole country. And he can always renege on the promise later. He’s nuclear, what’s Trump gonna do?

  25. Yet he has made no demands of the aggrressor that illegally invaded a democratic ally 

    This is like the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact that carved up Poland 

    This is impeachable in its own right 

  26. Canadians pay attention this is what he’ll want from us

  27. So, either Ukraine starts hitting some VERY high value targets or they cave to Trump and Putin and wait for the next invasion. I wonder what they’ll pick.

  28. We should be demanding $2 Trillion in reparations from the criminal invader, Russia, not mugging the victim.

  30. The US has provided less than 50% of what the EU has provided in aid. Why is the EU not even in the picture when in comes to this “deal”?

  31. Without Ukraine at the table. What kind of Neville Chamberlain shit is this!?? ITS BEEN LESS THAN A GOD DAMNED CENTURY!!

  33. Why is Ukraine paying for this? It should be Russia.

    Russia needs to pay Ukraine, US and any country that supported Ukraine in this war.

    Seize all Russian assets and use them as repatriation.

    The aggressor needs to pay, not the victim.

  34. Trump = greed. Musk is greed. And you still think it will benefit the people. You get what you vote for. Garbage.

  35. Not only is this deal completely fucking insulting to the people of Ukraine, if it goes through, tRump and his buddies construction companies are going to get even richer rebuilding and robbing Ukraine blind.This is straight out of a mobster movie

  36. I really have to hand it to Putin, he’s certainly no military genius, but damn if he doesn’t know how to manipulate democracies. Betting on the American people being stupid enough to re-elect Trump and destroy the Western alliance from within may have been the best bet ever made in all of modern history.

  37. Trump is a fucking monster. I truly hope there is a hell and he burns for all eternity. Ukraine isn’t even the enemy ffs! Why should they be paying reparations?? Those poor bastards

  39. And there goes the last tiny little bit of US-American reputation.

  40. So what Trump is proposing is worse than what Russia was proposing prior to Trump proposing his “peace plan.” That’s fucking insane.

  41. Disgusting.

    This should be placed on Russia.

    Trump is such a blatant Russian puppet.

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