Can you, in your wildest dreams, imagine a fairy tale in which former President Joe Biden proposes a rare earth mineral deal — much less has the deal accepted —to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in which the Strongman of Kyiv agrees to equally share “earn[ed] income from the future monetization of all relevant Ukrainian Government-owned natural resource assets”?
Me, neither.
Yet, a Ukrainian news publisher claims to have released the full text of the alleged Ukraine rare earth mineral deal ahead of expectations and that Zelensky will sign it on Friday when he visits the White House to meet with President Donald Trump.
The alleged language of the agreement stops short of the security guarantees Kyiv has consistently demanded from the U.S. but appears, if authentic, to establish a clear future interest for the United States in the country’s…
