I hope you’ll pardon me if I didn’t see one of the probably biggest developments until a whole 36 hours after it happened on Monday because it’s been a busy quarter for the Trump administration in the first few weeks of February. I read about another one of those crazy-stupid Trump thoughts that just may work on Tuesday night — a good three months after breakfast on Monday in Trump 47 Standard Time.
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If world harmony is your item, then that is — and I’m not even talking about his schedule to Restore Gaza Casinos. Although I’ll get more into that after today in” Crazy Speak, Vol. 2″.
U.S. President Donald Trump stated on February 3 that his administration would continue to work to put an end to the “ridiculous combat” in Ukraine while continuing to support Kyiv’s defense of the Russian aggression, according to a report released on Tuesday. Trump said that in exchange for the defense support, Ukraine must provide the country with rare earth elements, which are necessary for the high-tech sector.
” We’re telling Ukraine they have very valuable rare proterozoic”, Trump said. We’re looking to strike a deal with Ukraine so they can get our unusual rocks and other things back.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz accused Trump of being “very selfish, quite self-centered”, with the plan but, to get good, Scholz is an idiot.
Let me explain why Trump’s request may turn out to be overly beautiful, rather than trying to persuade Vladimir Putin to accept that “jaw-jaw is better than war-war.” The moment for peace is today, I wrote last week in a VIP-exclusive writing, and Trump’s apparently” self-centered” plan from this year may only get us there.
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And Another Factor: I am aware of how depressed some readers will be with this information. But I believe you would feel so much more at ease if you simply accepted the notion that Trump is going to satisfy Putin by giving him Ukraine and that no one else will find peace by awarding aggression.
The factor working hardest against Ukraine’s war energy isn’t the Russian Army, but as I’ve been reminding viewers for nearly three decades now, the West’s short attention span. Trump’s deal may right that.
The earliest reference I can find to our short attention span is from a July 2022 piece headlined, “UKRAINE WAR: The ( Not Quite ) God ‘s-Eye View, Five Months In”. You really re-read it — it’s held up remarkably well. The important thing is that American military equipment was in charge of the Ukrainian Army. By then, those who doubted the impact that a few contemporary howitzers and HIMARS launchers had had really know how slowly the Russian enhance had been and how much it had cost them, I wrote in response. But I warned,” The West has a short attention span, but who knows how long our money can final”?
While the assistance has gone on, it has been feverish and inadequate. We send sufficient stuff, now and then, to retain both sides drawing blood — but never enough to encourage Putin that conversations are in Russia’s best interest. And who knows how much of it was snatched up by the Biden clan?
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Putin has often relied on the West to get frustrated and give up. Russia may win a war against Ukraine and an uncertain West. But a war against Ukraine, which has exchanged solid supplies of American weapons for rare earths for a long-term offer? If a deal like that emerge, Russia’s odds are significantly diminished.
Zelenskyy told reporters on Tuesday that Ukraine is available to “investment” from “partners who help us protect our property and force the opponent back with their arms, their appearance, and sanctions plans. And this is absolutely fair”.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov” slammed” the proposal, according to Politico yesterday, which tells you a great deal about how Moscow views it. It would be preferable, of course, for no assistance to be provided at all, as it would help to put an end to this conflict.
Well, no. Trump’s deal would allow Ukraine to join the conflict at a time when the Russian economy is suffering from severe inflation, labor shortages, and crippling 21 % interest rates that even Russian defense contractors are choking on.
” If we continue like this, most companies will essentially go bankrupt”, Sergei Chemezov, head of the giant Rostec defense contractor, warned in December. ” At rates of more than 20 %, I don’t know of a single business that can make a profit, not even an arms trade”. Nobody will lend Putin a kopeck, according to Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, who recently came to the conclusion that Moscow’s “oil export revenues are too low to support a high-intensity war.”
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Putin should be at the table right away to negotiate. Trump’s rare-earths-for-weapons deal could do just that.
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