Wait. It gets worse: "The new document states that the revenues will be directed to a fund in which the United States holds 100 percent financial interest, and that Ukraine should contribute to the fund until it reaches $500 billion....The US has allocated $119 billion for aid to Ukraine."
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Max Boot
This is extortion of an ally: “The terms of the new proposal … call for Ukraine to relinquish half of its revenues from natural resources, including minerals, gas and oil, as well as earnings from ports and other infrastructure.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/w...
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Don't trade occupation from one empire w/another
(Underestimating the transformational change underway: The steadily growing number of people 🤞 able to see straight through the lies & rot)
NYT never fails to disappoint.
Still utterly disgusting.
This is what empires do.
This is the TRUMP DOCTRINE.
USCMA,
JCPOA
And to a lesser extent the TPP.
So the doctrine should work both ways.
Ukraine should be able to renege.
N'est pas?
This is the current version of his 19th century worldview. He has believed in the U.S. taking spoils of war for over a decade.
This is, at the same time, both disgusting and embarrassing for our country
I predicted that Trump will ask for compensation for Russia this is probably why he requests only 50% the other 50 is for Russia.
This is exactly the « peace discussion » they are having right now, how to split ?
He doesn’t care about nothing else than money
That is why him being a dictator is dangerous since he has the profile to perform mass murder like Hitler without even having any feeling about it.
He is dangerous and removing him from office is essential.
Trump cannot be trusted.
Even if Zelenskyy agreed to this extortion, Trump would either stick the money into his own pocket or split it with Putin.
The goal of the war was Putin's theft of Ukraine's resources.
Trump is beneath contempt. He is Putin's puppet.
Doesn't matter.
Trump is making plenty of money off his side hustles, milking the power of the presidency, scamming his followers, etc.
Trump is even aiming to steal Gaza land and build a new real estate empire there, with Netanyahu's help.
Trump is an easy mark. Just flatter him and wave some money under his nose.
https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/breaking-donald-trump-recruited-kgb-34727079
Thank you for posting.
Place got hit by lightning, huh? Fuck you, pay me."
Much of the aid was spent in the US. It has resulted in stockpiles being replenished. It's a win-win. The US gets the cash (plus the jobs), and Ukraine gets the weapons to defend itself against the invasion.
Weirdly you never hear Donald talk about it like that 🤔
I still don’t get how this is going to stop Putin - who also wants the minerals. Seems like a direct route to get US troops involved leading to a broader conflict.
#warcrime #treason
This is pretty much what your parties always been
Trump wouldn’t get very far if Republicans weren’t absolutely on their knees, licking his fucking balls
The facist felon47 feckwit has made a living out of reneging on contracts, financial malfeasance and illegal dealings since the 70s with approx 4,000 lawsuits to prove it.
Feck the felon. And I hope Zelenskyy screws him over bigly. The Art of the Deal my ARSE.
#FELON47
https://u24.gov.ua/
Sunlight is the best disinfectant. Expose all of his betrayals.
Only the small circle around Trump is as mendacious - and foolish - as he is.
is a quote by Roman philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero from 58 B.C. The quote is about how traitors can undermine a nation by infecting the body politic.
traitors are dangerous because they speak in familiar accents, wear the faces of their victims, and appeal to..
It makes Ukraine a slave dominion of an absentee landlord, the United States
NO ONE in their right mind would sign it
#SlavaUkraini
That's why the US can make decisions for Ukraine.
Obviously there is little to stop nations from making a different/new treaty organization.
"Suppose my neighbor's home catches fire, and I have a length of garden hose four or five hundred feet away. If he can take my garden hose and connect it up with his hydrant, I may help him to put out his fire..
http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/odllpc2.html
Trump is more about punishing people who fight Gor their democracy than supporting them.
The same is true here.