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    I’m gonna be dog piled on for this but Zelensky should have just kissed the ring and moved on, he never had to even accept any deal at that time. But he shot himself in the foot with this administration and now has to play catch up.

    Nb4 “trump evil, pj Vance is turd”

    Yea I get it. The usual bot response. But think critically. This dudes country is being crushed and America, regardless of administration, is helping them. Zelensky came to the oval office for help but let his pride dictate policy. Rather than play to Trump’s tiny dick syndrome and get what he wanted.

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      22 months ago

      Trump is demanding mineral resources as well as forfeiture of the 20% of Ukrainian territory currently occupied by Russia in exchange for enacting some unspecified plan to get Russia to stop invading Ukraine.

      Zelenski said sure, but he needs a security guarantee that if Russia continues invading Ukrainian territory the US will help defend Ukraine. This very reasonable

      Trump refuses to offer that guarantee and offers no details on any plan to keep Putin from invading further.

      From Zelenski’s perspective this is the US stealing his country’s mineral wealth for a Trump handshake, which is completely meaningless. It’s a bad deal and is unlikely to help the people of Ukraine

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        02 months ago

        Can I ask a question in good faith? If Zelensky agrees to this deal without any “securities” how many Americans, and how much of the Army Core of Engineers are deployed to Ukraine to setup infrastructure?

        What does a “mineral resource” look like? Is that a parcel? Or an operation? Who owns it?

        And how is this not creating a defacto military base in Ukraine, Unspoken. And providing Ukraine with the American seal of security?

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          That was like seven questions.

          1)…7) if any of us actually saw the actual deal it would be news