Aberdeen and Grampian Chamber of Commerce – March 11, 2025
The US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio has said that Ukraine will have to give up land seized by Russia for any agreement to end the war to be made.
Mr Rubio has flown to Saudi Arabia for crucial peace talks where Ukraine is expected to lay out its proposal for a sea and air truce.
President Zelensky’s chief of staff and defence and foreign ministers will meet the Trump team following last month’s clash at the White House which saw the US pause military aid and intelligence sharing with Ukraine.
Boarding his flight, Mr Rubio said: “I’m not saying that alone is enough but it’s the kind of concession you would need to see in order to end the conflict.”
He said it was important to “establish clearly Ukraine’s intentions” and to clarify that Ukraine “is prepared to do difficult things, like the Russians will”.
He added: “Both sides need to come to an understanding that there’s no military solution to this situation.
“The Russians can’t conquer all of Ukraine and obviously it’ll be very difficult for Ukraine in any reasonable time period to sort of force the Russians back all the way to where they were in 2014.”
However, in a separate development, an overnight drone attack in Moscow was launched just hours before the crucial make-or-break talks, in which at least one person was killed.
The “massive” attack on the capital and its surrounding region damaged seven apartments and forced the suspension of one district train network
It’s getting better.
After two years of active warm-up from the East with the denazification of the Ukronazis (a funny collection of several thousand tattooed drug addicts, drunkards, rapists, ex-prisoners, gathered at “Nazi” events generating tons of angry articles and videos in the West – before 2022 and in the mainstream, then only in the alt-media – based on a fat fiction),
the two top fighters for normalcy and traditionalism, the Eastern one and the Western one, who are also inspired fighters against “anti-Semitism”, are increasingly joining forces to crush the Ukonazis and any other Nazi anti-Semites, as well as the entire Nazi deepstate.
Who are also inspired virus fighters and prominent covid vaccinators, one pusheded Super Warpspeed virus killer, and the other was the first in the world to announce a “vaccine against covid”, the super Sputnik, created in partnership with Astra Zeneca.
And to top it all off: the prominent anti-anti-Semite, anti-Woke and top conservative after Trump, Elon, according to whom the best future for children and grandchildren, for the future of humans, is to physically merge with AI in order to be “enhanced and augmented” and “to avoid a Terminator scenario”…
How much better could it be? I am outraged by the pessimists on this issue.
Tremble, deepstate Ukronazis.
Moreover.
“JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia, March 11 (Reuters) – Ukraine has agreed to accept a U.S. proposal for an immediate 30-day ceasefire and to take steps toward restoring a durable peace after Russia’s invasion, according to a joint U.S.-Ukraine statement on Tuesday. The two sides, meeting in Saudi Arabia, also agreed to conclude as soon as possible a comprehensive agreement for developing Ukraine’s critical mineral resources, the statement said.”
Tass.ru, March 11:
Trump decided to resume military and intelligence assistance to Kyiv
WASHINGTON, March 11. /TASS/. After the US-Ukrainian talks in Jeddah, US President Donald Trump decided to immediately resume military and intelligence assistance to the authorities in Kyiv. This was said at a press conference by the assistant to the US leader for national security, Mike Walz. “The president has decided to cancel the suspension of security assistance to Ukraine, which comes into force immediately,” he said.”
From tass.com, 2 March:
“Karin Kneissl, former Austrian foreign minister and head of the “G.O.R.K.I.” center at St. Petersburg State University, told TASS in an exclusive interview why Russia should not rush to let European companies enter its market, explained what could be hidden behind the US deal on rare earth minerals, and also assumed what European countries could vie for Ukrainian lands
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– Do you think Trump will eventually force Kiev to sign an agreement on rare earth minerals? What significance will such an agreement have for Ukraine?
– The United States sees it more as a deal, as something similar to what the US did back in 1941 when it entered World War II and introduced the so-called Lend-Lease Act. That is, all US allies, be it the UK, France, or the Soviet Union, had to pay the US back for the weapons, money, and fuel it provided. Trump is acting in line with this tradition and believes that the Ukrainians should pay. I am not familiar with Ukraine’s geological map, but I know in general that the main minerals are located in the areas which joined Russia in the autumn of 2022. It has been repeatedly said in the past few weeks that the areas that are now under Russia’s control have major deposits of lithium, the demand for which is growing.”
The rare earth elements are “critical to the Fourth Industrial Revolution,” to recall. From “Izvestia”, 25 February 2025 (on Russian):
“On the evening of February 24, Vladimir Putin convened a meeting dedicated to the development of the rare earth industry. This issue has already been on the head of state’s radar: at the forum on future technologies last week, the president stated the need to increase their production several times. The development of this industry in Russia is the most important resource base for the modern economy, since rare metals are in demand in microelectronics, energy, in the creation of infrastructure for the digital economy, and in many sectors of the civil and defense sectors, Vladimir Putin said. In essence, we are talking about almost all sectors of the new technological order, which sets the dynamics of global progress. By 2030, Russia should create a full cycle of processing rare earth metals, which is necessary for the development of the country’s economy and defense industry, as well as for successful competition in world markets.
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After the meeting, Vladimir Putin spoke with journalist Pavel Zarubin, partly on the same topic. However, the president did not comment on a possible agreement between the United States and Kiev, stressing that “this is not our business.” At the same time, rare earth resources in Ukraine still require assessment, Vladimir Putin noted.
— By the way, we would be ready to offer [cooperation] to our American partners — when I say partners, I mean not only administrative and governmental structures, but also companies — if they show interest in working together. We certainly have an order of magnitude – I want to emphasize this – an order of magnitude more resources of this kind than Ukraine. Russia is one of the undisputed leaders in reserves of these rare and rare earth metals, the president told the journalist.”
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“This issue [rare earth] has already been on the head of state’s radar: at the forum on future technologies last week“.
Future Technologies Forum, one of the sessions there (on English):
Human 2.0 Technologies
21 February 2025 (Conference hall, World Trade Center Moscow)
Preview
No longer relegated to the annals of science fiction, cyborgization is here, and it’s already helping to improve the quality of life of millions of people. Bionic prosthetics, exoskeletons, and brain-computer interfaces restore body function and expand the realm of what is possible. Bionic limbs, for example, connect to nerve endings and muscles and provide feedback directly to the body for more intuitive control and sensitivity to pressure, temperature, and texture. The real challenge is to integrate devices with the user nervous system, impossible without the integration of multiple disciplines and cutting-edge solutions combining materials science, electronics, robotics, and neurophysiology. What will Human 2.0 look like? Just how promising is cyborgization? How do products align with demand? How does Human 2.0 stand to benefit from interdisciplinarity?”
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What’s so bad?! I don’t understand why some people are so afraid of this. Don’t pretend to be gentle schoolgirls and just take the chip! Nice, conservative, traditional, safe and effective, anti-leftist, anti-woke and anti-antisemitic chip. For good. Immediately give your nervous systems integration with the technosphere, give now.
In addition to my previous comment, where Karin Kneissl says that “the main minerals [rare earth] are located in the areas which joined Russia in the autumn of 2022” (I forgot to put the link to the English version of tass – very different from the Russian one.. why, you think? This is the version of the Western “carps” – for the plebeians, not for the Western operatives with whom the russian jointly manage the messages and stories to the various groups, of the most smooth course of the global transformation – such as RT.), and Putin wants to offer cooperation on rare earth mining “to our American partners.”
Vladimir Putin’s full interview with Pavel Zarubin
(Feb 25) (transcript, fragment)
“P. Zarubin: Mr President, we have just watched your meeting on rare earth metals. Sorry, but I think that now all journalists in the world are interested in rare earth metals, but in a slightly different aspect. After all, the United States, to put it very mildly, is urging Zelensky to sign an agreement with them on these resources to pay for aid to Ukraine by the previous Administration – the Biden Administration. How do you assess the prospects for such an agreement?
V. Putin: This does not concern us. I don’t evaluate it in any way and I don’t even want to think about it. Of course, it would be necessary to assess these resources, how real they are, how many of these resources, how much they cost, and so on. But this, I repeat, is not our business. Our business is what we have just discussed at the meeting. Rare earth metals are a very important component, very important resources for modern sectors of the economy. We are not doing much in this direction so far, we must do more. And the meaning of today’s meeting is aimed at concentrating the administrative resource for work in this area at the first stage.
By the way, we would be ready to offer cooperation to our American partners – when I say partners, I mean not only administrative and government agencies, but also companies – if they showed interest in working together.
We certainly have an order of magnitude more resources of this kind than in Ukraine. Russia is one of the undisputed leaders in terms of reserves of these rare and rare-earth metals. We also have them in the North – in Murmansk, in the Caucasus – in Kabardino-Balkaria, in the Far East, in the Irkutsk region, and in Yakutia, in Tuva. These are quite capital-intensive investments, capital-intensive projects. We would be happy to work together with any foreign partners, including American ones.
Yes, by the way, as for the new territories, it is the same: we are ready to attract foreign partners, and our so-called new historical territories, which have returned to the Russian Federation, also have certain reserves there. We are ready to work with our foreign partners, including American ones, there as well.
P. Zarubin: In the new regions too?
V. Putin: Yes, of course.
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(the interview ends with:)
“Pavel Zarubin: By the way, a few minutes ago I read another piece of news from the United States: President Trump said that the United States and Russia are discussing major economic projects as part of the negotiations on Ukraine.
Vladimir Putin: Yes, some of our companies are in contact with each other and are discussing such projects.
Zarubin: Thank you very much.
Putin: Thank you.”
The possibility of this anti-Nazi and anti-anti-semitic partnership, which will also support both the construction of the Stargate data centers infrastructure to combat the left-walke-transgender deep state and the overall technological base for the most anti-Nazi future large-scale integration of AI with the nervous system and brains of those threatened by the ominous woke-green deal-digital totalitarianism-illegals-leftism, remains relevant. Tass.ru, March 12:
MOSCOW. There are opportunities for economic cooperation between Russia and the United States, including with regard to the development of rare earth elements. However, this is not yet being discussed, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said at a briefing, answering a question from TASS.
“President [of Russia Vladimir] Putin is talking about potential opportunities for broad interaction and cooperation in the field of a wide range of economic projects, including in the area you mentioned,” the Kremlin spokesman said.
At the end of February, Putin said that Russia was ready to consider major economic projects with the United States, including within the framework of the Ukrainian settlement. Among them, the Russian leader singled out the extraction of rare earth elements and the production of aluminum. According to the Russian president, these are capital-intensive projects that require investment.
U.S. President Donald Trump has shown particular interest in the development and extraction of rare earth metals, a key element in modern microelectronics and high technology. The Kremlin noted that an investment partnership between Moscow and Washington is possible, but only after the restoration of relations between the two countries and the settlement of Ukraine.”
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I support. It is high time to proceed more actively to “restore relations between the two countries and settle Ukraine”, and for this purpose this dirty jewukronazi clown Zelensky must be overthrown and Donald and Putin to shake hands for something in the middle about Ukraine. It is simply a shame and outrageous to have such nonsense happening on the territory of the former Hazarian Kaganate, a famous old center of trade, a real prototype of a possible future multipolar such center, for example, on the new Silk Road. Just stop the fighting and build some data centers, with a business center, and some synagogue… In fact, there is such a perfect place, the Dnieper, where “the largest jewish complex in the world” is located (built and with donations from Kolomoisky and Bogolyubov).
Ukraine is not a country; it is part of Russia