Dogovor med ameriškim in ruskim predsednikom, iniciran v njunem telefonskem pogovoru in razdelan v sestanku obeh delegacij na najvišji ravni v Rijadu prejšnji teden, dobiva vse bolj konkretne obrise. Trumpov del posla se je po prvih poročanjih nanašal na vrnitev premoženja ameriških podjetij v Rusiji (v vrednosti okrog 330 milijard dolarjev) in na vrnitev ameriških deležev v nekaterih ruskih plinskih projektih. Nove informacije pa kažejo, da utegne biti “posel” med Trumpom in Putinom bistveno širši. Nekateri špekulirajo o tem, da je v igri tudi ameriški odkup evropskih podjetij po diskontni ceni in odkup podjetja Severni tok od evropskih lastnikov. Najnovejše informacije pa kažejo, da sta se Trump in Putin pogovarjala tudi o lastniških vlaganjih v ruska podjetja za predelavo surovin (aluminij) in nahajališča mineralov redke zemlje. Kot vrhunec sarkazma je Putin včeraj javno ponudil Američanom, da vlagajo v podjetja za izkoriščanje surovin in redke zemlje tudi v “novih, zgodovinsko ruskih ozemljih”, s čimer je imel v mislih aneksirane štiri ukrajinske regije.

Vse to se seveda sliši kot absolutno nemoralno trgovanje dveh velesil na račun usode Ukrajine. In tudi je. Toda moraliziranje ne pomaga kaj preveč pri trgovanju velesil, gre za “hard power”, ki ga imajo velesile. Pomaga pa, če razumemo miselnost voditeljev velesil. Putin je včeraj zanikal, da Trump deluje emocionalno in opisal, da njegovo ravnanje temelji na “hladni kalkulaciji in racionalnem pristopu k situaciji“.

In Trumpova kalkulacija je izjemno velika, če seštejete vse fragmente:

• “Partnerski” sporazum z Ukrajino v vrednosti 500 milijard $,
• vrnitev premoženja ameriških korporacij v Rusiji v vrednosti 330 milijard $,
• vložki v ruska surovinska podjetja v dolgoročnem izplenu kakšnih 200 milijard $,
• morebitni odkup premoženja evropskih korporacij v Rusiji po diskontni ceni (nominalna vrednost je bila ocenjena na 230 milijard evrov),
• morebiten odkup podjetja Severni tok, ki ima vsaj sto-milijardni potencial.

Če seštejete vse skupaj, pridete na cifro, ki nominalno presega 1,000 milijard $. Torej Trump si obeta, da ameriški subjekti pridobijo za več kot 1,000 milijard $ koristi za dosedanji “vložek” v ukrajinsko vojno, ki je znašal okrog 170 milijard $. To je zanj izvrsten Posel. To lahko ameriški javnosti predstavi kot “Sanjski posel” za Ameriko. Vse, kar bo zanj “žrtvoval”, so ukrajinska ozemlja in ponos prejšnjega predsednika Bidna in neokonzervativnega lobija, ki so forsirali to vojno. Si lahko Američani zamislijo še kak boljši deal glede Ukrajine? In to potem, ko so izgubili tisto prvotno vojno, v kateri bi naj oslabili Rusijo in dosegli zamenjavo ruske oblasti. Boljši posel za ameriške kšeftarje si je težko zamisliti.

Pustimo ob strani, da Ukrajina sploh nima teh silnih nahajališč mineralov redke zemlje ali da je precej ameriških podjetij za vedno izgubilo svoje premoženje ali da so jih nadomestila domača ruska ali ameriška podjetja… Trump se bo še vedno lahko hvalil, da je sklenil sanjski posel za Ameriko: 1,000 milijard $ izplena za 170 milijard $ vložka. 5-kratni donos!

Na drugi strani bodo evropski “voditelji”, no, leteči cirkus Monty Python pod vodstvom Ursule, ostali z dolgimi nosovi. “Vložili” so podobno vsoto v Ukrajino, zanjo ne bodo ničesar dobili (Ukrajinci jim dolgov ne morejo plačati, nimajo s čim). Nasprotno, evropska podjetja bodo ostala brez svojega premoženja, države EU bodo morale plačati 500 milijard evrov za obnovo Ukrajine in morale bodo plačevati za namestitev svojih “mirovnih enot” v Ukrajini. In če bodo evropske države želele ruski plin, ker brez njega preprosto ne morejo, bodo morale zanj plačevati tržno ceno.

Evropski politiki so ob koncu te vojne izpadli kot popolni idioti. In s pretekom let bodo izpadli kot še  večji idioti.

Aja, bili so moralni do konca. Želeli so nadaljevati moralno vojno proti zli Rusiji do zadnjega Ukrajinca. Kajti “mir je bolj nevaren od nadaljevanja vojne” (kot je dejala danska premierka).

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In a wide-ranging new interview with Russia 1 TV, President Vladimir Putin touted that his country is in talks with the United States over cooperating on “major” joint economic projects.

The Monday remarks came two weeks following his first phone call with President Trump after the US leader took office for the second time. “Some Russian and American companies are in contact and discussing major projects,” Putin said.

This is being confirmed by the US side as well, given Trump in a Truth Social post also revealed that major “economic development transactions which will take place between the US and Russia” are in the works. He said that ongoing discussions are “proceeding very well” — coming off last week’s bilateral Riyadh talks led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russia’s Sergey Lavrov.

Putin has also this week been taking steps to make Russia an inviting place for US companies to operate once again, after well over 1,000 of them have curtailed or closed up operations in the wake of the Ukraine war’s start.

“For many years, US trade policy has been tied to sanctions. We consider these sanctions illegal and harmful to global trade,” Putin described said in the interview.

As for which areas the US and Russia might cooperate on, Putin didn’t detail the talks down the that level, but did tease that Russia is ready to work with “foreign partners” including companies on mining minerals.

That’s when he claimed in the interview that we [Russia] “undoubtedly have, I want to emphasize, significantly more resources of this kind than Ukraine” and said: “We would be ready to offer this to our American partners… if they showed interest in working together.“

“As for the new territories, it’s the same. We are ready to attract foreign partners to the so-called new, to our historical territories, which have returned to the Russian Federation,” he added. This provocative statement appeared to reference the four annexed territories in Ukraine’s east: Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia.

Western media has described that this is an “eye-catching” move by the Russian leader:

He also suggested that Russia and the US could collaborate on aluminium production in Krasnoyarsk, in Siberia, where one Russian aluminium maker, Rusal, has its largest smelters.

The televised comments followed a cabinet meeting on Russia’s natural resources.

On Tuesday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists the proposal opened up “quite broad prospects”, adding that the US needed rare earth minerals and Russia had “a lot of them”.

Offering the US access to minerals is an eye-catching move by Putin, given how much pride the Kremlin has taken in keeping Russia’s natural wealth in Russian hands. In 2023 Putin accused the West, particularly the US, of trying to “dismember” Russia to gain access to its natural resources.

We’ve certainly come a long way from the Biden administration goal of ‘weakening Russia’ – to use the words of former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.

Meanwhile, as the White House aggressively pursues a final deal for access to Ukraine’s mineral deposits, including rare earths, Zelensky has appeared to resist.

Europe has at the same time offered its own alternative deal which Zelensky is likely to favor. Europe’s Commissioner for Industrial Strategy Stéphane Séjourné has said he’s pitching the rival plan to Kiev officials. “Twenty-one of the 30 critical materials Europe needs can be provided by Ukraine in a win-win partnership,” Séjourné said.

Vir: Zerohedge