“We got what we wanted I don’t give a fuck now” - Trump.
What did Trump want / get out of it?
Fortunately for Ukraine, all they really got was a photo OP.
This is not bad news, well for putin it is IMO.
I don’t know what to do as an American, I don’t even speak good Russian
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Lmao
I’m gonna end the war! Wait this is hard, nevermind.
Remember in the first trump term when he assigned Jared Kushner the job of implementing peace in the Middle East? How’s the Middle East peace these days?
Well, nobody knew
healthcare,middle east, Ukraine was so complicated.
”We will continue to help, but we will no longer fly around the world as mediators in meetings,”
Not quite what the headline suggests happened.
hey look it’s almost like Donnie has no idea what to do about anything
So much for ending the war in one day.
You should known that our beloved pumpkin pie is working directly with the back of the future crew to locate the actual dolorian used for the films. With the vast plutonium reserves they will send Elon back in time to the moment Putin was borne. He will the proceed to choke that sonobabich: okay let’s see this happening:
88mph.
The vehicle’s flux capacitor is activated.
The vehicle is at its maximum hyperbolic pressure MHP. That’s when the hyperbolae regarding the vehicle is at Ludicrous hypervelocity.
The tire flames are now converging into the time flux redundonator.
And he’s gone! The sonobabich did it!OK now we switch over to the time Harper lapse camera. Let’s see Elon locate and choke baby putin. Wait a minute! Is he breast feeding putin? Holy! That is not a breast! No! The humanity! And putin is actually just Elon sucking on his own. Why didn’t we see it?!!
We must send a second dolorian back in time to stop the first dolorian!
Well, at least the US did remove a giant obstacle to a lasting peace from the war - Trump.
This was pretty much what Michael Kofman predicted was going to happen months ago. As long as Russia feels that they can prevail militarily and is making maximalist demands based on that, and Ukraine is unwilling to accept those terms, there’s not really much room for mutually-acceptable terms.
Even if they got something on paper, that’s not likely to translate to a durable peace.
If the US leadership weren’t idiots, they could have put pressure on Russia to get at least a ceasefire. Instead, they focused on bullying Ukraine.
I don’t know how much more pressure can be applied absent direct conflict between the US and Russia, which I don’t believe the US will do.
Almost all US-Russia trade is gone, so not much to take away in economic terms.
https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c4621.html
In 2021, the US imported $29.6 billion from Russia and exported $6.4 billion.
In 2024, the US imported $3 billion (90% gone) and exported $0.5 billion to Russia (92% gone).
It might be possible to pressure other countries not to trade with Russia via use of secondary sanctions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_trading_partners_of_Russia
The top party there is China (who I don’t think that we’re in a position to compel to cut off from Russia).
There’s Belarus, which I doubt is going to be compelled to cut off trade from Russia given the state of affairs.
The other top countries are all EU members. I mean, we could try and put pressure on them, but theoretically they should be doing this themselves.
Like, I can understand criticism as to Trump’s interactions with Zelenskyy, but I don’t think that there’s some magic, easy-to-use lever to compel Russia that the White House has in reserve. Maybe weapon supplies to Ukraine are the most-influential left.
I agree that economic sanctions are nearly maxed out, but as you mention, they could provide more military aid. Instead, that was already delayed last year by Republicans, and recently even intelligence support was suspended, as Russia increased the bombing of civilians. Adding to this, most public quotes were about blaming Ukraine and trying to appease Putin, which significantly influenced how “brave” Russia acted.
The US is free to do with their resources as they please, but if they actually wanted to stop this war, they had the options to move towards to that. Instead the war went on for months without any positive results. The mineral deal can be a good step, but it seems to be the last one, so not sure it will be enough alone.
The DealMaker Suivant
L for love!
BLOTUS
Probably a good thing, the US sucked at it anyway. Ukraine was going to be forced to concede so much… Art of the Deal strikes again.
Nah, Trump got what he wanted, the minerals deal. Now he can keep sanctions on China for longer while we strip mine Ukraine for rare earth minerals.
It’s going to take years if not decades to setup the full supply chain off that deal, he’ll likely be dead by then and China will be laughing the whole time.
Honestly, from everything I’ve seen so far, the new mineral deal seems pretty good and fair.
That depends on the deal actually being followed.
Trump has zero intention of following through on any deal he makes, if he finds another option that is more beneficial to himself and himself alone, he will reneg on the deal in a microsecond.
Yeah. If it’s a fair deal, Trump won’t stick to it.
While insulting the person that originally made the deal (himself)
It still needs to be ratified in UA, AFAIK.
Lol, we aren’t going to be mining anything. Rare earth minerals aren’t rare because they’re only located in isolated places, they’re rare because they are only present in small amounts when mining other materials.
The hard part is the refining of rare earth minerals because it requires large investments in refineries to separate the materials and consolidate them. Infrastructure that Ukraine or America haven’t invested in.
The minerals deal is just something that trump can point to as a “win” when in reality it’s not worth anything. Just like everything this administration does, it’s nothing but smoke and mirrors.
In that case, looks like Zelenskyy had the cards.
Ukraine doesn’t even have significant rare earth deposits. Nothing worth mining.
However, those aren’t the only thing in the deal. Bunch of other minerals are in there, and oil and natural gas.
I’m aware, but they’re also unfortunately rare in the US, and we need batteries if we don’t maintain a good trade relationship with China.
America actually has plenty of rare earth deposits, it’s just not profitable to mine them and then build facilities to refine them.
Bro the US isn’t going to mine shit in an active war zone. The mineral deal might be beneficial if peace is reached but not before that.
Doesn’t really matter. Trump got a deal. In Donnie’s diseased mind, it doesn’t matter what it says, only that it exists.
It all makes sense when you realize he’s a trust-fund idiot cosplaying as a businessman.
If peace is reached and maintained. If Russia doesn’t get all of Ukraine, how long is it going to be until they invade again? No one is going to want to invest in building a mine with that hanging over it.
Typical Trump deal: nothing substantial, but he loudly claims credit for it anyway.
Chalk up another failure of leadership.
Does his hand look small?
If you think it looks small now, you should see it next to his deformed penis.
… can I not?
you know how like…in China or NK they have those “great leader” photos in every house?
He’s going to force his dick pics on every house.
Hamster hands.
Good and stay out.
Once again demonstrating how unreliable the American government has become.
It will be a very long time before the international community trusts America.
Give it a century
Username checks out
Or millenia, if at all…
The international community should think of the US as an adversary like Russia or North Korea because that is what it is now.
No, think of the worlds far right sympathizers like that, not all US citizens want this bullshit I sure as shit don’t.
Pariah state is the designation I have started to use.
