The US president’s ‘America first’ policy means Kiev will have to pay its own bills As Washington’s push to secure Ukraine’s mineral wealth intensifies, the latest tensions between Donald Trump and Vladimir Zelensky highlight a growing rift. The US president and his team are actively pressing Kiev to sign off on a deal that would grant America access to Ukraine’s rare-earth metals in exchange for continued military aid. But is such an agreement feasible? And how did Ukraine’s underground riches suddenly become a focal point in US-Ukrainian relations? Family jewels Ukraine possesses significant reserves of valuable minerals, including lithium (2%…
Author: Benjamin Scott
The billionaire has denied the agency’s report on plans to cut Ukraine off Starlink to pressure it to accept the rare earths deal Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has accused Reuters of “lying” in response to its report that he was planning to threaten to cut off Ukraine’s Starlink internet access in order to provide the White House with leverage in its ongoing bargaining over natural resources. The agency reported on the matter on Saturday, citing three US officials familiar with the plans. According to Reuters, the Ukrainians were threatened with an “imminent shutoff” of Musk’s Starlink satellite service…
Kiev must compensate the US for all the assistance it has received during its conflict with Moscow, President Donald Trump has said. His comments add to the public spat between him and Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky over the issue of aid and negotiations with Russia. “Europe has given $100 billion. The United States has given $350 billion because we had a stupid, incompetent president and administration,” he told the audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Maryland on Saturday. “I want them to give us something for all of the money that we put up. So, we’re asking for…
The news agency has been barred from attending certain events following the ‘Gulf of America’ dispute The Associated Press, one of the world’s oldest news agencies, has filed a lawsuit against three senior White House officials, accusing them of violating press freedoms by barring its reporters from covering President Donald Trump’s activities. The White House has imposed restrictions on AP after it refused to use the term ‘Gulf of America’ instead of ‘Gulf of Mexico.’ The complaint was submitted on Friday to the US District Court in Washington, DC. The news agency, whose journalists have been part of the White…
The outgoing prime minister has ruined his country with “Marxist policies,” the US president claimed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is “a loser” who is ruining the country with radical left policies, US President Donald Trump has claimed. Trump previously threatened to impose a 25% tariff on Canadian goods and suggested that its northern neighbor would be better off as “the 51st state” of the US. The war of words between Trump and Trudeau continued after a hockey game between US and Canadian teams in Boston, during which fans of the visiting team booed the US national anthem. Canada won…