Great job sniffing out the grift to keep his country at war.
BTW...it wasn't grift. the deal was three birds with one stone, and none of it was to make America rich off Ukraine.
First, it put Americans in Ukraine as a trip wire trigger to prevent Russia from rolling in exactly as the small American force as Korea's DMZ does, but because the Americans weren't military the Russians would find it acceptable. Also, those Americans would cost less than our military as theoretically the operation would be financially self-sustaining.
Second, it provided a source of income to rebuild Ukraine's infrastructure and economy. It is cheaper for us to develop a mine than it is to rebuild a country Marshall Plan-style. The morons in this forum who think Ukraine should make the deal with Europe instead don't understand that it would be even better for us as that means Europe is paying for the development of the mining interests to pay for the rebuilding of Ukraine instead of us.
Third, it defangs China just a bit as these are the same materials they have a commercial monopoly on and it would be nice to have this mining operation to mess with the price they are able to charge.
What Zelensky did yesterday had nothing to do with sniffing out anything or not wanting to let Ukraine be exploited. Rubio tried to get Zelensky to sign this agreement 6 days ago in Ukraine. It was Zelensky who insisted on traveling to the United States, to the White House, and doing it on camera. Trump didn't summon him. It is now apparent that Zelensky insisted on doing this at the White House in front of American cameras to embarrass Trump. Mission accomplished, but I don't think he counted on the backlash and now he's trying to walk his clout-chasing back.
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