{"id":2853,"date":"2025-02-17T11:38:25","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T12:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/?p=2853"},"modified":"2025-02-17T13:52:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T13:52:49","slug":"us-imposing-colonial-resource-deal-on-ukraine-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/17\/us-imposing-colonial-resource-deal-on-ukraine-media\/","title":{"rendered":"US imposing \u2018colonial\u2019 resource deal on Ukraine \u2013 media"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Trump administration is treating Kiev like an African colony, several unnamed officials have reportedly said<\/strong><\/p>\n

The US is trying to steamroll Kiev into a lopsided resource deal that evokes memories of the West\u2019s colonial past, several media outlets have reported, citing officials familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n

Last fall, Ukraine\u2019s Vladimir Zelensky suggested that his country could agree to allow its Western backers to participate in the joint exploitation of vast deposits of rare earth minerals, including lithium, titanium, and graphite. The administration of US President Donald Trump apparently took up Zelensky on his offer, reportedly suggesting to Kiev that the US be granted 50% ownership of the country\u2019s rare earth minerals and that American troops be deployed to defend them.<\/p>\n

However, Zelensky is said to have \u201cpolitely declined\u201d<\/em> to sign a document granting the US control of half of Ukraine\u2019s mineral reserves, seeking a \u201cbetter deal\u201d<\/em> and arguing that the agreement did not provide any US security guarantees.<\/p>\n

Commenting on the back-and-forth between Washington and Kiev, an unnamed official from an unidentified country told AP that \u201cit\u2019s a colonial agreement, and Zelensky cannot sign it.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Echoing this assessment, two unnamed officials told Bloomberg that Washington \u201cwas trying to ram through a one-sided deal\u201d<\/em> regarding Ukraine\u2019s resources. One agency source compared the US attitude to Belgium\u2019s colonial policy in Africa in the 19th century, when King Leopold II controlled the Congo as his personal fiefdom.<\/p>\n

An unnamed senior Ukrainian adviser cited by the Washington Post noted that he was \u201ctaken aback by the scale\u201d<\/em> of what the Trump administration demanded, also recalling the history of European colonialism in Africa. He warned that the deal \u201ccould also lead to the right to develop Ukraine\u2019s resources being signed away for decades with no guarantees that investors would actually develop them.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Despite this, Ukrainian officials are working on a counterproposal that would provide Washington with access to the country\u2019s resources while also bolstering US security guarantees for Ukraine, according to Washington Post sources. In this vein, one senior Ukrainian official reportedly joked that Kiev would consider \u201calmost anything\u201d<\/em> to maintain US support, including shipping Ukrainian eggs to America.<\/p>\n

Michael Waltz, Trump\u2019s national security adviser, has defended the concept of a resource deal, arguing that the US \u201cdeserve[s] to have some type of payback for the billions they have invested in this war.\u201d<\/em> He suggested that Zelensky would be \u201cvery wise\u201d<\/em> to sign such an agreement.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova suggested that the US was simply taking advantage of the Ukrainian leadership\u2019s desire to \u201csell the country by auction.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u201cWhat Trump told Zelensky doesn\u2019t even resemble a deal. It\u2019s more like a command \u2018fetch!\u2019 \u2013 which the Kiev regime has been well trained to obey.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Trump administration is treating Kiev like an African colony, several unnamed officials have reportedly said The US is trying to steamroll Kiev into a lopsided resource deal that evokes memories of the West\u2019s colonial past, several media outlets have reported, citing officials familiar with the matter. Last fall, Ukraine\u2019s Vladimir Zelensky suggested that his…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2853"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2857,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2853\/revisions\/2857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}