Mahalaxmi Ramanathan
Mahalaxmi Ramanathan

@MahalaxmiRaman

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📍President #Trump claims that #Ukraine has “essentially agreed” to give the #US half a trillion dollars worth of #RareEarthMinerals as payment for the military aid #Washington has provided #Kyiv. ... x.com
2⃣📍“They have tremendously valuable land in terms of #RareEarth [minerals], in terms of #Oil & #Gas, in terms of other things. I want to have our money secured, because we’re spending hundreds of billions
3⃣of dollars [in #Ukraine],” #Trump told Fox News “Special Report” host Bret Baier in an interview taped ahead of Sunday’s Super Bowl.
#Trump, 78, insisted that the #US should have access to #Ukraine’s natural resources regardless of whether a #PeaceDeal between
4⃣#Russia 🇷🇺 & the former Soviet state can be successfully negotiated, arguing that the “more than $300 billion” the #US has provided #Ukraine dwarfs what other nations have contributed to the war effort.
5⃣“They may make a deal. They may not make a deal. They may be Russian someday, or they may not be Russian someday. But we’re going to have all this money in [Ukraine] and I say, I want it back,” the president said.

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