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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Trump-Zelensky Meeting on Minerals Goes Sideways

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

Society & Culture, News

42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky visits Washington to sign a deal with the U.S. on mineral rights, but an Oval Office meeting with Donald Trump and JD Vance breaks down in acrimony. Zelensky says any cease-fire with Russia must be backed by security guarantees, given Vladimir Putin's record of breaking his word. Trump says the meeting shows Zelensky isn't ready for peace. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

0:38.3

President Trump's meeting with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky turns into a heated argument in front of the cameras, with Zelensky then leaving the White House without signing the deal for mineral rights that he had come to Washington to consummate.

0:53.5

Welcome. I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.

0:56.8

We're joined today by my colleagues, columnist Belmogern, and Kim Strassel.

1:02.3

An extraordinary scene in the Oval Office on Friday afternoon.

1:06.2

Ukraine's President Zelensky visiting Washington, D.C., to sign an agreement giving the U.S. a stake

1:11.8

in new development of natural resources in the country, which has big reserves of uranium, natural

1:17.5

gas, and so forth. But a Q&A with the press turned into a diplomatic blowup, as Zelensky

1:23.6

argued that Vladimir Putin had repeatedly broken his word in negotiations going back to 2014,

1:30.3

so no ceasefire would be possible without some kind of guarantee of Ukraine's security.

1:36.3

Here is the moment that the meeting went sideways.

1:39.3

During the war, everybody has problems.

1:42.3

Even you, but you have nice ocean and don't feel now,

1:46.0

but you will feel it in the fusion.

1:49.0

God bless, you don't know that.

1:50.0

God bless, you will not have the war.

1:53.0

Don't tell us what we're going to feel.

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