Dober komentar v MoA. Medtem ko Trump zahteva za 500 milijard dolarjev vrednosti ukrajinskih nahajališč mineralov redke zemlje za podpiranje nadaljevanja vojne in medtem ko mu jih je Zelenski tudi pripravljen dati, je resnica, da oba blefirata. Oba vesta, da Zelenski nima kontrole nad temi nahajališči, oba vesta, da Ukrajina nima niti promila možnosti, da bi zmagala to vojno in oba tudi vesta, da Trump nima nobenih mehanizmov, s katerimi bi lahko Putina prepričal, da konča vojno drugače kot po svojih pogojih.
Noben blef ne more pomagati. Zelenski ne more ničesar ponuditi in Trump ne more ničesar obljubiti. Vojna se bo končala, ko bo Rusija dosegla svoje cilje.
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When Donald Trump got re-elected the leadership of Ukraine was elated (archived):
[I]t comes as quite a surprise—and as an indication of just how bad things have become in the country in recent months—to learn that many senior officials [in Ukraine] were hoping for a Donald Trump victory. Faced with the choice of continued bare life-support or a wildcard president who would rip up the rules and almost certainly cut aid, they were prepared to gamble.
President Volodymyr Zelensky was quick to endorse the victory, and in fulsome terms. “We look forward to an era of a strong United States of America under President Trump’s decisive leadership,” he wrote on X (formerly Twitter, and now run by the pro-Trump billionaire Elon Musk). This was not just spin. In private, his staff have become increasingly frustrated by what they describe as the Biden administration’s “self-deterrence”, the habit of fearing escalation with Russia to the point of paralysis, and a growing gap between the rhetoric of “standing with Ukraine for as long as it takes” and actions that suggest the opposite.
Zelenski thought that he could make deals with Trump:
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy pored over a once-classified map of vast deposits of rare earths and other critical minerals during an interview with Reuters on Friday, part of a push to appeal to Donald Trump’s penchant for a deal.
The U.S. president, whose administration is pressing for a rapid end to Ukraine’s war with Russia, said on Monday he wanted Ukraine to supply the U.S. with rare earths and other minerals in return for financially supporting its war effort.
“If we are talking about a deal, then let’s do a deal, we are only for it,” Zelenskiy said, emphasising Ukraine’s need for security guarantees from its allies as part of any settlement.
Trump agreed to take the offer but in return of nothing for it:
Trump, 78, insisted that the US should have access to Ukraine’s natural resources regardless of whether a peace deal between Russia and the former Soviet state can be successfully negotiated, arguing that the “more than $300 billion” the US has provided Ukraine dwarfs what other nations have contributed to the war effort.
“They may make a deal. They may not make a deal. They may be Russian someday, or they may not be Russian someday. But we’re going to have all this money in [Ukraine] and I say, I want it back,” the president said.
“I told them that I want the equivalent of like $500 billion worth of rare earth [minerals], and they’ve essentially agreed to do that,” Trump revealed.



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