Asked on Tuesday what Ukraine would receive in the mineral deal, Trump said: “$350 billion and lots of equipment, military equipment, and the right to fight on,” repeating a false claim he has made in the past. According to the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, a German think tank that closely tracks wartime aid to Ukraine, Washington had committed a total of about $124 billion in aid to Ukraine.
I am getting confused about Trump's intentions or goals in Ukraine. Why would Ukraine need more military equipments when he has promised to end the war. I thought the deal should be focused on using the gains from the exploration of these minerals to reconstruct Ukraine. Ukraine needs a security guarantee from the US and not war tools.
This is coming at the hills of the United States of America and Russia trying to meet for a peace deal that Ukraine is not involved mind you Russia has already taken control of the resources from the territory that they have captured from Ukraine
Sadly Ukraine will not even be in the meeting to discuss its own future. The meeting will be a replica of the Berlin conference of 1885-6, where European powers partitioned Africa among themselves without any input from Africans. The US and Russia will simply discuss how to share Ukrainian resources.