Rebuilding Ukraine for the Ukrainians and Gaza for the Gazans – As a Trump ‘Deal’?
Many of us have seen videos of the Press Conference in the Oval Office, the spectacle Trump-Vance-Zelensky last Friday, 28 February 2025. Essentially, it appeared that President Trump was ready to make a deal with Zelensky, unelected President of Ukraine, for peace in the Ukraine-Russia war.
The deal consisted of Zelensky granting a concession to the US to mine rare earths (REEs) from Ukraine in part to pay back some of the US$ 350 billion which, according to President Trump, the US has given Ukraine in money and weapons to fight Russia, and in part for Donald Trump, i.e. the US, to negotiate with Vladimir Putin a lasting Peace for the two countries.
The figure of US$ 350 billion, according to more accurate accounting, is vastly exaggerated, the real figure is more likely around US$200 billion. Notwithstanding that about two-thirds of the military equipment never made it to the front, but was “lost” to the black market. In the current situation, this is rather immaterial. This was already reported a year ago by BBC and CNN.
Mr. Zelensky, before signing a concession agreement, wanted “securities”, whatever that means, from Mr. Trump because he doesn’t trust President Putin to stick to a peace agreement. With “security”, the Ukrainian dictator probably meant US troops along with EU troops in Ukraine to guarantee that President Putin does not break the ceasefire and/or Peace Agreement.
During the White House Oval Office Press Conference, hosted by President Trump with the attendance of JD Vance, Vice President; Marco Rubio, Secretary of State; and other US government officials, Zelensky was parading one lie after another about Mr. Putin and Russia. He pretended Putin had broken 25 ceasefire agreements since February 2014, though never was specific. Zelensky is either extremely stupid or he believes that Donald Trump and JD Vance do not know the history, how it got to the war, which would also be extremely stupid.
As Jens Stoltenberg, former Secretary-General of NATO, repeatedly said in the times before passing on the scepter to Mark Rutte, new NATO boss,
“This war started already in February 2014 with the Maidan Coup.”
Stoltenberg did not elaborate who instigated the Coup. It does not matter because it is well known that it was the West, the US with the assistance of Europe. Both Stoltenberg and Rutte are ‘graduates’ of the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Academy for Young Global Leaders (YGL).
Let us not forget, the two German-French-sponsored Minsk Agreements [September 2014 and February 2015] were never meant to be implemented, as Madame Merkel, former German Chancellor, shockingly admitted in December 2022 (see this).
After Zelensky’s insistence on ”security” before signing any agreement, Mr. Vance berated Zelensky for being ungrateful, never having said “thank you” for all the moral and material support he has received from the US in the last three years; and Trump doubled-up, accusing Zelensky to be unwilling to make Peace, potentially provoking WWIII.
During the argument, President Trump
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