Comments by "gary K" (@garyK.45ACP) on "Ukrainian President Zelenskyy Asked Point Blank About 'Mineral Deal' With US For Security Guarantees" video.

Correct. Britain paid off lease over a period of 61 years. Ukraine won't have to do that...they never had the money to do it, and will not be able to repay European loans without a much greater source of revenue than they previously had. This is it!
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Very terrible translation. If you are going to use a translator, then MUTE the speaker.
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The mineral deal IS a security guarantee. This is a SUPER deal for Ukraine! There is no 'pay back' for anything the US has given them (unlike European countries who are demanding being repaid). It will mean trillions of dollars in future revenues for Ukraine, which they can use to pay back the European loans, and restore their country. How was Ukraine ever going to repay those loans otherwise? Ukraine was borrowing money form the IMF just to survive BEFORE the war (remember the infamous Biden $1 billion loan guarantee? "Fire you prosecutor or you don't get the loan") GREAT, high paying, jobs for Ukrainians, protection from Russia because they are NOT going to invade Ukraine with all those American companies and their employees there, AND revenue Ukraine can use to build it's OWN weapons and defense. It means SECURE INDEPENDENCE for Ukraine. No foreign slimeball like Biden can ever force them to fire their officials again. They will never have to beg for weapons. They can upgrade their own infrastructure without loans. Ukraine is a WEALTHY country, they just have never been able to tap that wealth. Slava Ukraina!
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@jennanail No they can't. Here's why...coal is old energy, nobody wants it and it isn't the future...Ukraine has very little oil, and not a lot of natural gas. Ukraine was a TRANSPORTER of gas, mostly for Russia, through pipelines, to other European countries. That business is gone. Europe is trying to get away from oil/gas/coal. Ukraine is dealing with selling buggy whips and horseshoes. Ukraine's 'friends' in Europe BLOCK Ukrainian grain from the European market and wouldn't even allow grain trucks to pass through Poland to Baltic ports (if you will remember) when the Ukrainian ports were under attack. Europe forces Ukraine to sell their grain to low margin markets like Africa and Asia. Ukraine was borrowing money from the IMF, just to pay for their pensions, BEFORE the war. (which are paltry, my mother in law receives the equivalent of $140/mo. and that won't cover her utility bills, my wife and I have to make up the difference.) So with ALL its industry intact, AND trade with Russia, Ukraine had to borrow money to pay the bills they had before the war. Ukraine needs an income source that is marketable for the future. They have minerals, such as lithium, cobalt, and others that are the FUTURE of energy. I'm not guessing. I am from Kharkiv. All of my family is in Kharkiv. My son, nephew and bother in law are already fighting. My mother in law's building was destroyed, she is now living in an apartment my wife and I own, and used to rent for income. Her pension doesn't cover the utilities which have increased to 5 times what they were before the war. We pay her utilities and her pension barely covers her food. Ukraine has NO resources to pay back Europe AND fix their destroyed cities. I don't want my grandson and younger nephew to have to fight this war, their young lives have already been disrupted. I don't want my son, brother in law or nephew killed. I wouldn't trade ANY of the lives of my family for one square centimeter of Crimea, Donets'k or Luhans'k Oblasti. I doubt you would either. All this foot stomping about "1991 borders" is nonsense! NO ONE who is at risk of dying, or cares for someone who is, is saying that. I want my family safe and I want a future for Ukraine and my city...which has LOST most of it's industry, never to return. Maybe Kharkiv could be a regional base for mineral companies? 🤷‍♂ It's a big city, with roads, a good airport, rail transport. They will never again have the Air Force Academy there or the Tank Factory, but maybe something can be salvaged through the mining.
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@ Get over it, Dawn. If it results in a good future and security for Ukraine, the words said in negotiations are irrelevant. I am Ukrainian. My wife is Ukrainian, my family lives in Kharkiv. I am thanking GOD for Donald Trump and this possible solution to a good future for MY Ukraine. Biden/Harris were going to dribble aid to Ukraine, restrict the use of weapons until all Ukrainians were killed...including my son, nephew and brother in law who are today fighting Russians and could be killed at any moment. So get over your indignation about WORDS. Put YOUR family on the line, for three years, and see if you change your tune.
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