War in Ukraine – The Mineral Deal Pulls Trump Back in
This week the U.S. and Ukraine signed a ‘mineral deal’. It will allow the U.S. to profit from all future explorations of minerals and hydrocarbons in the grounds controlled by the Kiev regime.
The deal grew out of a scheme the (former) President Zelenski had peddled within the framework of his ‘victory plan’ last year. He had hopped to entice further support in form of weapons and even direct military intervention against Russia in exchange for some access to rare earth minerals in Ukraine. With the current deal Trump took the second part without offering any guarantee for providing the first.
What the now signed deal really entails is still unknown. The text of the framework agreement was published (in Russian) by the Ukrainian government. There are however two additional agreements which define the all important details.
The Ukrainian government claims that only the first part has been signed. The other two will follow only after the Ukrainian parliament, the Rada, has ratified the main one. Several ‘western’ media have contradicted that claim. All three parts of the agreement were signed. But the Ukrainian government is keeping the details of the second and third part secret because the conditions imposed by them are extremely bad for Ukraine.
As Strana has summarized (machine translation):
The document published by the Ukrainian government and signed yesterday does not contain any specifics on the fundamental aspects of the fund’s activities.
In particular, the details of the fund’s management and the decision-making mechanism for disposing of funds received by the fund are not specified.
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There is only a reference to the fact that the distribution of shares in the fund, its management principles and other specific issues will be regulated by an additional limited partnership agreement, which, according to the Ukrainian authorities, has yet to be signed (recall, the American media write that it has already been approved).
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In the published text of the agreement, the goal of the fund (Partnership) is extremely vague: “to become a flagship mechanism for encouraging transparent, accountable and future-oriented investments in critical sectors of the Ukrainian economy in support of the country’s recovery strategy.”
At the same time, the text of the agreement contains clear commitments on cont
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