Summary

Donald Trump stated that U.S. aid to Ukraine should be compensated with $500 billion worth of its mineral resources, including rare earth elements.

He claimed Ukraine had “essentially agreed” to this arrangement. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has hinted at allowing U.S. access to these resources to maintain support.

The idea aligns with Ukraine’s “victory plan” for post-war recovery.

Trump’s comments drew criticism, with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz condemning his approach as “very egotistic, very self-centered.”

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    America shows its colours.

    It was never freedom, it was money and power all along.

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      Always has been. Most of the shit they got up to after WW2 violated the human rights of half the planet, was anti-democratic, and imperialistic.

      • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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        That’s every country in the world.

        Some countries operate as administrators of shared consolidated resources. Some forget this and become America. You’ll spot the difference one day.

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      Nothing Biden gave them was free. They took on huge debt to get it.

      In don’t like Trump but this is prob better than owing more debt. Not sure if the 500B is fair, but that’s for Ukraine to decide.

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        Bullshit. Almost all of the aid given to Ukraine from the US is in the form of non-repayable grants. Ukraine doesn’t have “huge debts” to the US. Trump wants to change this.

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        What Biden gave them was peanuts. Enough to not lose everything. But not enough to take back the territory when the opportunity was there, and seemingly not even enough to hold the line as it is anymore. The only equipment they ever gave in large quantity for fighting a mechanized war was the himars launchers and ammunition and maybe the Bradleys.

        Make no mistake, America NEVER had any intention of helping Ukraine win.