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🗓️ 2 May 2025
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Ukraine just signed a game-changing deal with the U.S.—granting first access to its rich natural resources in exchange for billions in aid. Trump-backed and debt-free, this move could reshape global power. Is this a smart play or modern-day resource colonialism?
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0:00.0 | So, Rob, do you have the minerals deal that we're talking about? |
0:04.7 | We saw President Trump and Zelensky sit down together and have a conversation together, right? |
0:12.5 | Yeah. |
0:12.8 | It's the legendary picture that we all saw. |
0:15.2 | I love it. |
0:15.6 | Which he pushes Macron aside and it's like, listen, you know, this is for you, buddy. |
0:19.9 | You're not no security guard. |
0:21.7 | Yeah, and then they sat there and, you know, Zelensky keeps Delane, Delane, Delane, Delane, Delane, |
0:28.5 | eventually, U.S. and Ukraine signed a mineral deal given the U.S. preferential access to Ukrainian |
0:36.5 | mineral resources and establishing a joint investment fund for reconstruction with U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Besant. |
0:44.0 | Good for you, Scott Besant and Ukrainian first deputy prime minister, Yulia Sivirdenko, signing the accord with the Treasury stated, clearly signals the Trump administration's commitment |
0:56.3 | to a free and sovereign prosperous Ukraine. |
0:58.6 | Rob, if you want to play this clip, here's Scott Besant. |
1:01.8 | Thanks to President Trump's tireless efforts to secure a lasting peace, I am glad to announce |
1:07.5 | the signing of today's historic economic partnership agreement between the United |
1:12.5 | States and Ukraine, establishing the United States Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund. |
1:18.6 | This partnership allows the United States to invest alongside Ukraine to unlock Ukraine's |
1:25.4 | growth assets, mobilize American talent, capital, and governance standards |
1:30.3 | that will improve Ukraine's investment climate and accelerate Ukraine's economic recovery. |
1:37.3 | The Development Finance Corporation will participate and help to establish this fund in collaboration with the government of Ukraine. |
1:46.0 | Today's agreement signals clearly to Russian leadership that the Trump administration is committed to a peace process centered on a free, sovereign, and prosperous Ukraine over the long term. |
1:59.0 | It's time for this cruel and senseless war to end. |
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