Is Zelenskyy ready to cut a deal with Trump?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 26 February 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
As we record, Zelenskyy is looking through the draft agreement which would give America oil, gas and mineral rights in exchange for…what? The final part of the deal is the bit that's missing. Will America pledge military help? And if not what does Ukraine get back?
Later, former Chief Whip Simon Hart describes the utter circus (*shitshow) that surrounded the last few years of Conservative rule. His book, "Ungovernable: The Political Diaries of a Chief Whip", is brutally honest. Will it put people even further off politics?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK commercial banking, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:10.6 | This is a global player original podcast. I hear that he's coming on Friday. Certainly it's okay with me if he'd like to. |
| 0:17.8 | And he would like to sign it together with me, and I understand that's a big |
| 0:21.2 | deal, very big deal. And I think the American people, even if you look at polling... |
| 0:26.4 | The person who's okay for him coming is, of course, Donald Trump speaking at the Oval Office, |
| 0:31.5 | and the person who will be coming is Volodymyr Zelensky. It looks like the US and Ukraine have hammered out this minerals deal |
| 0:42.3 | which America wanted to get its hands on Ukraine's rare minerals. We are waiting with baited breath |
| 0:52.0 | to see what the text of this deal actually looks like. At the moment, |
| 0:56.0 | we're being told there is no security guarantee for Ukraine within it. So how is that going to help |
| 1:03.4 | Ukraine's future as things stand? Welcome to the newsagents. The news agents. |
| 1:12.2 | It's John. |
| 1:13.0 | It's Emily. |
| 1:13.8 | And you'll remember how this all kicked off? |
| 1:16.2 | I mean, what feels like a month ago, but was probably only about 72 hours in Trump land, |
| 1:21.5 | Donald Trump had said that after all the money that America had spent on Ukraine's |
| 1:27.2 | defence, obviously against the Russian |
| 1:30.3 | aggression of Putin, Ukraine had to pay the money back. And he demanded $500 billion worth |
| 1:38.9 | of Ukrainian rare earth minerals. In other words, stuff that is deep embedded in the Ukrainian land, in mines |
| 1:47.7 | that would need to come out of the ground and then be handed over to America as some sort |
| 1:53.9 | of compensation for the money they've spent on weaponry. Zolensky said, no, I don't think that's going to happen. Trump then called him |
| 2:03.0 | a dictator, said that actually he shouldn't even be there because he'd taken away the elections, |
| 2:09.1 | which is part of the Ukrainian constitution during military action. And what has emerged from |
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