Hey, everybody. Welcome to another episode of Eyes On Geopolitics.

I am Demetriktos. I'm here with Mick Moroy.

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you don't know what your next thought's going to be um lock cooking as usual yeah um

where do you want to start off do you you want to start off Ukraine Mineral Deal?

We're going to talk about Mike Waltz being quote unquote reassigned to the UN and Rubio taking over the NSA and Secretary State at once and Israel, Gaza.

Your call, dealer's choice.

Well, let's start with the order you have,

of Mendy. So the Ukraine mineral deal, I'd start off by saying it's a good deal for Ukraine,

right? It's, you know, we can certainly debate how we got here with, you know, the

Oval Office meeting and the Brab eating and the, you know, the Oval Office meeting and the Rob eating and the, you know,

basically using Russian talking points, none of which, you know, I would agree with if anybody's

asking me. However, we got to, we are where we are. And this is a good deal, I think, for the United States. Obviously, these

rare earth minerals are incredibly important to modern technology. You know, lithium, for example,

graphite. I'm not an expert in this area. But there is believed to be billions and billions, if not trillion dollars in Ukraine,

and oil and gas and other.

And so this is as a partner to Ukraine, something I think that was very much fair.

The original proposal required Ukraine to payback from aid they already received, which

I don't think was fair.

This one did not.

So this is all about future.

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