US and Ukraine sign deal to create the Reconstruction Investment Fund — the long-awaited mineral deal that gives the US rights to Ukrainian rare earth.
This is one of those deals that will signal to Russia that peace without victory is off the table. Once the US has a reliance on resources in Ukraine it’ll go to war to defend them, no different to the Article 5/NATO red lines given by Putin many times already.
Of course he can’t decree what deals Ukraine signs under Zelensky, but as long as the war carries on the deal cannot materialise fully. As long as the deal cannot materialise, Russian troops can continue their slow march to Kiev and eventually topple the Zelensky regime.
slow march to Kiev and eventually topple the Zelensky regime.
They have been gaining like 0.4% of the land area per year as of late and are rapidly running out of weapons reserves used to sustain this growth. The war will go on but it’s comical to suggest Russia will get to Kiev.
This is assuming Ukraine can sustain its current effort. With the US pulling funding and Ukraine’s military suffering from high desertion as well as the growing unpopularity of the Kiev regime, that’s far from being guaranteed.
This is one of those deals that will signal to Russia that peace without victory is off the table. Once the US has a reliance on resources in Ukraine it’ll go to war to defend them, no different to the Article 5/NATO red lines given by Putin many times already.
Of course he can’t decree what deals Ukraine signs under Zelensky, but as long as the war carries on the deal cannot materialise fully. As long as the deal cannot materialise, Russian troops can continue their slow march to Kiev and eventually topple the Zelensky regime.
They have been gaining like 0.4% of the land area per year as of late and are rapidly running out of weapons reserves used to sustain this growth. The war will go on but it’s comical to suggest Russia will get to Kiev.
This is assuming Ukraine can sustain its current effort. With the US pulling funding and Ukraine’s military suffering from high desertion as well as the growing unpopularity of the Kiev regime, that’s far from being guaranteed.