Trump Clarifies He Wants the Rare Earth Minerals from the Ukraine for Services Rendered, Not for Further Services

When Trump first made his statements about how the Ukraine should be forced to give America their rare earth minerals, it sounded to some like he was saying “we’ll keep sending you weapons if you start paying for them.” And that is how Zelensky seemed to interpret it.

However, it sounded to me like Trump was saying “give us that shit for all the money we already gave you.”

Trump has clarified that this is what he means. He’s not offering the Ukraine more money, he’s just demanding the US get paid.

RT:

US President Donald Trump has said he wants to secure a deal with Kiev to ensure Washington gets its money back by trading aid for Ukraine’s rare-earth minerals – regardless of whether “they may be Russian someday.”

In an interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier, Trump claimed that “the United States is in for more than $300 billion, probably 350” in various forms of aid to Ukraine, adding that it would be “stupid” for Washington to continue bankrolling Kiev without receiving anything in return.

“I want to have our money secured because we’re spending hundreds of billions of dollars,” he said. “They have tremendously valuable land in terms of rare earth, in terms of oil and gas, in terms of other things.”

“I told them that I want the equivalent, like $500 billion worth of rare earths, and they’ve essentially agreed to do that,” Trump stated. “So at least we don’t feel stupid. Otherwise, we’re stupid. I said to them, we have to get something.”

“You know, they may make a deal, they may not make a deal, they may be Russian someday, or they may not be Russian someday, but we’re gonna have all this money in there, and I say, I want it back,” he added.

He sounds like he’s talking about the whole country becoming Russia again, which is funny.

That should happen, even though Russia doesn’t have any interest in trying to sheep-herd those morons in the west of the country.

Kiev still has quite a few deposits of these rare earths.

Trump should just sign the deal with Putin, giving him the east of the country, then go in and strip mine the other half of the country for payback. No one will be able to say he lost in this case.