Summary
Donald Trump seeks near-total control over Ukraine’s critical minerals, energy assets, and infrastructure in a new draft deal, significantly expanding his previous demands.
The proposal, sent to Kyiv, includes no security guarantees for Ukraine, sparking concerns about sovereignty and dependence on the US.
Energy law experts called the terms unprecedented, noting the US could withdraw without obligation. Trump also suggested US control of Ukraine’s nuclear plants.
Critics warn Russia may exploit Trump’s urgency for a quick deal, complicating peace efforts and post-war stability.
This is just the Republican/libertarian fantasy. So many people I worked with at the time thought we should have taken all the Iraqi oil after we invaded.
It’s just the evolution of what was colonialism, and before that, feudalism. These people want to be kings of territory, with ownership of all resources, charging people a tax for harvesting resources on their property and paying them a pittance to survive and do so. It’s the direct path into hyper-capitalism, of “everyone not in a very exclusive club rents their life and everything in it, in order for the wealthy to gain more wealth.”
Same story it’s been since we started cities. There’s an elite class that believes the rest of us need to work so they don’t have to.
Lazy selfish priests, lazy selfish kings, lazy selfish politicians.
Maybe we should stop letting the lazy selfish rich make decisions for the rest of us.