Ukraine
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wrote on 24 Feb 2025, 21:53 last edited by wtg
$114 billion and change through the end of last year.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1303432/total-bilateral-aid-to-ukraine/
And this graph, as a percentage of each country's GDP:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1303450/bilateral-aid-to-ukraine-in-a-percent-of-donor-gdp/
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wrote on 24 Feb 2025, 22:46 last edited byLink to video
Trump wasn't briefed or couldn't remember what he was told.
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wrote on 25 Feb 2025, 08:24 last edited by
The only figures that Trump has a grasp on are female
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wrote on 25 Feb 2025, 14:31 last edited by
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wrote on 26 Feb 2025, 14:31 last edited by wtg
Zelenskyy: no security guarantee agreed with the US and minerals deal depends on Trump
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said no security guarantee with the US has been agreed and described the deal between the two countries as a ‘framework’.Speaking at a press conference earlier today, the Ukrainian president also said the success of an initial minerals agreement with the US will depend on President Trump.
Zelenskyy said a security guarantee with the US was essential. Speaking to the BBC, he added, “if we don’t get security guarantees, we won’t have a ceasefire, nothing will work, nothing.”
A White House official has cast doubt on Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s purported trip to Washington on Friday. Speaking anonymously to Reuters, the official said “If the Ukrainian leader says the deal isn’t finalised, I don’t see why an invitation would make sense. There’s an expectation that his coming is to recognise a final position, and he is not at a final position in his own words in this new wording.”
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wrote on 26 Feb 2025, 18:41 last edited by
A security guarantee would have been NATO membership and it has been denied. These events happened in the framework of the US violating certain promises and in the process destroying the global nuclear arms control framework. Russia was never going to accept Ukraine becoming a member of NATO. It was a bridge too far for them and they are the hegemonic power in the region.
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wrote on 26 Feb 2025, 20:15 last edited by
Details on the deal. The most comprehensive description I've seen so far.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/economic-deal-between-us-ukraine-191525595.html
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wrote on 28 Feb 2025, 02:35 last edited by
How many resources are there, anyway?
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/27/politics/trump-ukraine-minerals-doubts-resources/index.html
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wrote on 28 Feb 2025, 03:31 last edited by
Zelensky is crazy to do any kind of deal with Trump. The man's word is worthless. A contract with him is worthless.
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wrote on 28 Feb 2025, 08:30 last edited by
He would be giving up minerals and not getting security. Peace must made between the parties at war. Zelensky is out of his depth.
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wrote on 28 Feb 2025, 09:41 last edited by
It happened the way I said it happened.
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wrote on 28 Feb 2025, 18:04 last edited by wtg
Vance, Trump, and Zelensky get into a shouting match in the Oval Office.
I keep saying this but I cannot believe this is happening.
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wrote on 28 Feb 2025, 19:23 last edited by wtg
Yowzers.
Zelenskyy has left the White House moments ago, with the press conference between the two leaders, where they were expected to sign a deal on minerals, also cancelled.
Zelensky posted this on X:
Thank you America, thank you for your support, thank you for this visit. Thank you
@POTUS, Congress, and the American people.
Ukraine needs just and lasting peace, and we are working exactly for that.
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wrote on 28 Feb 2025, 19:49 last edited by
Might as well jump on a China Airlines flight and see what Winnie Xi Pooh offers for the minerals
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wrote on 28 Feb 2025, 20:03 last edited by
Glad the "deal" is cancelled.
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wrote on 28 Feb 2025, 20:11 last edited by wtg
Trump ordered Rubio and Waltz to tell Zelensky to leave. Before lunch was served. Zelensky's speech at the Hoover Institute tonight is cancelled
Czech prime minister Petr Fiala says:
We stand with Ukraine and on the side of the free world!
and Latvian prime minister Evika Siliņa added simply:
Latvia stands with Ukraine.
The Swedish prime minister Ulf Kristersson said:
Sweden stands with Ukraine. You are not only fighting for your freedom but also for all of Europe’s. Slava Ukraini!
The Lithuanian president Gitanas Nausėda has also joined in:
Ukraine, you’ll never walk alone.
… and the Irish foreign minister Simon Harris:
Ukraine is not to blame for this war brought about by Russia’s illegal invasion. We stand with Ukraine.
Norwegian prime minister Jonas Gahr Støre is the latest European leader to offer his support for Zelenskyy and Ukraine as he says this:
We stand by Ukraine in their fair struggle for a just and lasting peace.
The Swedish prime minister Ulf Kristersson said:
Sweden stands with Ukraine. You are not only fighting for your freedom but also for all of Europe’s. Slava Ukraini!
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wrote on 28 Feb 2025, 20:17 last edited by
Standing with Ukraine is all well and good, as long as it means you funnel as much high tech weaponry from your own arsenals as you have, and budget to replace it with triple the amount you had to begin with. If these nations aren't willing to do that, and put hundreds of thousands of young men and women in uniform, then it's the old British saying, ...
"Find words butter no parsnips."
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wrote on 28 Feb 2025, 20:57 last edited by Daniel
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/crewqz93yz
Better luck next time? Lol.
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wrote on 28 Feb 2025, 21:29 last edited by
The leader of the free world met people at the White House today. Donald Trump was also there ....
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wrote on 28 Feb 2025, 21:42 last edited by
So disappointed in Rubio.
Rubio, however, took to X and commended the President for his firm stance and courage.
'Thank you @POTUS [President Trump] for standing up for America in a way that no President has ever had the courage to do before. Thank you for putting America First. America is with you!,' he wrote.
