Trump says U.S. to sign rare earths minerals deal with Ukraine next week

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/17/nx-s1-5366821/trump-italy-meloni

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  2. How long until Trump goes back on the terms of the deal? An hour? A day? A week?

  5. I hope it’s something that can be reversed because the US does not operate in good faith and can not be trusted to do the right thing.

  6. He keeps trying to put the thought out into the universe like he does with his moronic followers like they will make it happen.

  7. We’ll believe it when we see it! Just like everything else Trump

  8. Is this for mining them or processing them? US can easily get the minerals but the processing is very polluting with environmental issues, which is why US uses China. I suspect this has more to do with processing them in Ukraine than just the mines

  10. Well what sucks is there are no mines in Ukraine operating at the moment. All good to say the US can have them. But you know. Youd have to end the war so they can extract said rare earth minerals.

  12. Still waiting on that health care plan…from the first round!

  15. YEAH FUCKING RIGHT. WHOS GOING TO FUCKING BELIEVE THAT!? Lol

  18. Rare earth elements aren’t rare, and AFAIK the “reserves” of ores supposedly in Ukraine date back to (probably flawed) surveys conducted in Soviet times.

    Refining and separating rare earth elements is a potential environmental nightmare, most ores also contain thorium, which needs to be separated and safely disposed of – as it’s radioactive and definitely a cause of cancer if inhaled.

    While the world was happy to buy Chinese refined rare earths for a couple of decades, when the Chinese started tightening up on domestic environmental and OSH regs and the prices increased accordingly, this still didn’t result in investment in refining in the west. That happened more than a decade ago. Probable reason – nobody wants to deal with the cost of treating chemical waste, and the need to safely separate and dump radioactive waste is a final deal-breaker.

    If the deal with Ukraine involves refining and separation, then it’s probably because the US wants access to the product – but doesn’t want the dirty shit on US soil. Same probably with their insane plans to annex Greenland – “one way or another”.

    A company I worked for abandoned plans for large-scale RE extraction in Australia in the 1980s – because disposal of radioactive waste became a political hot potato.

  19. So they just gonna go pick up the bags of rare earths lying around underground in Ukraine? Like Command and Conquer? Hahahaha…

  20. Trump is a literal mob boss. What are we doing…?

  22. For a guy who’s whole career has been about making deals… he seems pretty shit at getting them done

  23. Has Ukraine confirmed this or is this just a deadline he is giving, expecting to retaliate when it isn’t met?

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