From: Maia Mikhaluk in Kyiv (1091st day)
The Telegraph published a draft of the “partnership” agreement that the United States offered to Ukraine. No wonder, even not knowing all the details that become known now, we all felt that our country was being violated for the second time on the day when the US Minister of Finance arrived in Ukraine with an ultimatum that Ukraine had to sign off 500 billion worth of resources as repayment for American help that didn’t really help to protect us from ruzzian military aggression.
And before we launch into discussions under this post about the ungratefulness of Ukrainians and why Americans should help us in any way at all, I will remind again about the Budapest memorandum when Ukraine gave up the third largest in the world nuclear arsenal in 1994 in exchange of guarantee of our borders by USA, UK and ruzzia.
Answering the question of why Americans should be helping to defeat putin we could also point out parallels between Hitler and putin and the events and agreements/concessions that led to WWII. Ruzzia is your enemy, too.
And one more thing: “Trump said the US had spent $300bn on the war so far, adding that it would be “stupid” to hand over any more. In fact the five packages agreed by Congress total $175bn, of which $70bn was spent in the US on weapons production. Some of it is in the form of humanitarian grants, but much of it is lend-lease money that must be repaid.”
I will post a link to the The Telegraph article in the first comment. But here is the short summary of the proposed “partnership” agreement that sounds more like economic colonization.
In addition to rare earth minerals, Ukraine would have to transfer ports, infrastructure, and most resources, including oil and gas, to US control.
The United States would receive 50% of Ukraine’s revenue from extracting its own resources and 50% of the value of “all new licenses issued to third parties.”
The two countries would create a joint investment fund to ensure that “hostile parties to the conflict do not benefit from Ukraine’s recovery.”
The fund would have the right to set the terms, conditions, timing, and selection criteria for all future projects involving Ukrainian resources.
Such an agreement would give the United States almost complete control over Ukraine’s commodity economy.
The newspaper writes that if Ukraine agreed to these terms, they would be greater than the reparations imposed on Germany under the Treaty of Versailles. In fact, Trump would like to receive $500 billion worth of resources from Ukraine.
The Telegraph article says, “Ukraine cannot possibly meet his $500bn demand in any meaningful timeframe, leaving aside the larger matter of whether it is honourable to treat a victim nation in this fashion after it has held the battle line for the liberal democracies at enormous sacrifice for three years. Who really has a debt to whom, may one ask?”
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