It’s just to frame Zelinsky as being unwilling to negotiate. Trump and Putin will never make reasonable offers to achieve peace. Peace will come from the end of a barrel.
The more controversial the contract, the better.
It will take time before it can be signed.
It's also likely that Ukraine will then no longer be susceptible to blackmail for help with satellite intelligence and the conditions can be adapted.
"We can hope that we can be friends again at some point"
Ukraine needs to walk away from colonialist document. Its insane to sign away Ukraine's soveriegnty and independence. Europe needs to step up and fast.
D.Trump/Vance are the greatest tragedy to have befallen America since September 11, 2001,” a sentence that today I would amend by adding “actually also since Pearl Harbor.”
Oh, you do care about European aspirations.
New version of mineral deal with US may kill Ukraine as independent state.
Don't you care about Ukraine?
No European aspirations possible without Ukraine being independent state, you see.
What is the point of these deals for anyone other than US? Throw your lot in with Europe and Canada now, the US is no longer worth enterta8ning if they can't bring anything to the table
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It will take time before it can be signed.
It's also likely that Ukraine will then no longer be susceptible to blackmail for help with satellite intelligence and the conditions can be adapted.
"We can hope that we can be friends again at some point"
And also really sleazy.
New version of mineral deal with US may kill Ukraine as independent state.
Don't you care about Ukraine?
No European aspirations possible without Ukraine being independent state, you see.
This may be one of the main reasons Trump is so obsessed with screwing Ukraine and bailing out Putin.