Zelenskyy insists on guarantees ahead of Trump meeting after US president says Ukraine can ‘forget about’ joining Nato – as it happened
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Ukrainian president says ‘guarantees of peace and security’ were vital ahead of expected talks in Washington on Friday

Donald Trump, at his first cabinet meeting, said he believed the US is negotiating “very successfully” with Russia and Ukraine.

The US president suggested that a ceasefire deal is close. “We’re going to make a deal with Russia and Ukraine to stop killing people,” he told reporters.

Asked if he is willing to make security guarantees as part of the deal, Trump replied:

I’m not going to make security guarantees beyond very much … We’re going to have Europe do that, because Europe is the next door neighbour.

He added that the US will be partnering with Ukraine “in terms of rare earth.” “We very much need rare earth, they have great rare earth,” Trump said.

Trump said it was “great deal for Ukraine too, because they get us over there, we are going to be working over there”.

  • Keeponstalin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 days ago

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        • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          8 days ago

          Sorry that I think Ukrainian genocide is bad. I know that’s a radical opinion on the performative left.

          • IndustryStandard@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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            8 days ago

            Thinking it is bad is fine. The author of the Tweets even agrees with you in the screenshot you posted.

            But America is not helping Ukraine. It used Ukraine as a tool. Now that Ukraine is at its lowest point America starts extorting Ukraine.

            If this outcome (which many leftists correctly predicted) was known to Ukrainians three years ago, do you think Ukrainians would have been as enthusiastic to fight? So America can put a straw in their ground, and slurp up their minerals to fund Raytheon.

            • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              8 days ago

              If this outcome (which many leftists correctly predicted) was known to Ukrainians three years ago,

              "We predicted that we were going to help the GOP elect a Russian puppeted fascist three years ago, because NEOLIBS are worse than fascists, and the lives of minorities and foreigners don’t matter ^.^ "

              Quite a prediction from ‘many leftists’.

              do you think Ukrainians would have been as enthusiastic to fight? So America can put a straw in their ground, and slurp up their minerals to fund Raytheon.

              Do I think Ukrainians would have been as enthusiastic about not being genocided if America wasn’t supporting them?

              Yes. Most people who aren’t ghouls think that.

              • IndustryStandard@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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                8 days ago

                The signalling about the minerals was done far before Trump took the reigns.

                Ukraine confirmed this week that they refused the early peace deal (which is better than the deal they will get now) because NATO promised to support them to the end.

                Neocons can blame this all on the convenient orange sheep, but the Biden administration made no effort to provide with Ukraine with decisive weapons to win the war. Only barely enough for the stalemate to keep going.