Connor Stringer and Joe Barnes – The Telegraph Aug 13, 2020
Donald Trump is preparing to offer Vladimir Putin access to rare earth minerals to incentivise him to end the war in Ukraine.
The US president will arrive at the much-anticipated meeting with his Russian counterpart on Friday armed with a number of money-making opportunities for Putin.
They will include opening up Alaska’s natural resources to Moscow and lifting some of the American sanctions on Russia’s aviation industry, The Telegraph can reveal.
Proposals include giving Putin access to the rare earth minerals in the Ukrainian territories currently occupied by Russia.
Scott Bessent, the US treasury secretary, is understood to be among administration figures briefing Mr Trump ahead of his meeting with Putin in Anchorage.
Mr Bessent is exploring the economic trade-offs the US can make with Russia in order to expedite a ceasefire agreement.
Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday, Mr Trump said Putin would face “severe consequences” if he did not agree to end the war in Ukraine at their meeting on Friday.
The US leader also revealed his intention to seek an immediate second meeting with Putin, this time involving Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, after their one-on-one talks in Alaska.
Mr Trump said: “If the first one goes ok, we’ll have a quick second one. I would like to do it almost immediately, and we’ll have a quick second meeting between President Putin and President Zelensky and myself, if they’d like to have me there.”
The US president had attended a virtual summit with Mr Zelensky and other European leaders including Sir Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron and Freidrich Merz as part of a series of calls ahead of the Alaska meeting.
Speaking after the talks, Mr Zelensky said Mr Trump backed security guarantees for Ukraine. “There should be security guarantees,” he told a press conference alongside Mr Merz, the German chancellor.
“President Trump said that he supports this and America’s readiness to take part.”
In the past months, Washington has kept security guarantees – some kind of commitment that America would be willing to enforce the terms of any peace deal – for Ukraine off the table, despite it being a key demand from Kyiv.
The UK, France and Germany have been working towards creating a peacekeeping force without the direct involvement of the Americans but had hoped the US may offer support such as air cover.
Offering an update on the plans following Wednesday’s talks, Sir Keir said his “coalition of the willing” was ready to implement a ceasefire plan as soon as a peace deal was agreed.
The plans “are now ready in a form that can be used if we get to that ceasefire”, the Prime Minister said, adding that “real progress” on security guarantees for Ukraine had been made.
European leaders including Emmanuel Macron, the French president, said the calls with Mr Trump were “positive”. After the calls, Mr Zelensky said Putin was “bluffing” when he said “he does not care about the sanctions and that they’re not working”.
As well as lifting sanctions, The Telegraph can now reveal that the US is preparing to offer Putin other financial incentives to end the war, including access to rare earth minerals in the areas of Ukraine currently occupied by Russia.
Ukraine is thought to hold 10 per cent of the world’s reserves of lithium, used in the production of batteries. Two of its largest lithium deposits are in areas held by Russia, and Putin has staked his claim to the valuable minerals found in the regions his forces occupy.
“There are a range of incentives, in which a potential mineral/rare earth deal could be one,” a source with knowledge of the proposals told The Telegraph.
In May, the US signed a rare earth mineral deal with Kyiv, allowing it to exploit Ukraine’s ample natural resources. Washington will need to establish new mining operations, which could be accelerated by Russian co-operation.
The president’s America First policy has seen him strike several mineral deals since his return to the Oval Office, most notably with Ukraine and Kazakhstan.
Other incentives include lifting export bans on parts and equipment needed to service Russian planes, swathes of which have fallen into disrepair.
Western countries have restricted Moscow’s access to crucial spare components and other equipment since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, forcing airlines and the military to cannibalise old aircraft for replacement parts.
Nearly 30 per cent of Russia’s Western-made planes, cut off from maintenance, could be grounded within the next five years, Sergei Chemezov, the head of Rostec, Russia’s state-owned defence conglomerate, suggested this year.
Lifting sanctions on Russian aircraft could prove lucrative for the American manufacturer Boeing. With a fleet of more than 700 planes dominated by Airbus and Boeing, Russian airlines could return to the American suppliers for critical parts and maintenance.
Recent major incidents highlight an urgent need to prevent the fleet degrading. In late July, a Soviet-era Antonov An-24, built in 1976, crashed in the country’s far east, killing all 48 people on board. Days later, the Russian flag carrier Aeroflot grounded dozens of flights following a crippling cyber attack.
Mr Trump is also considering offering Russia opportunities to tap into the valuable natural resources in the strait that separates it from the US. Alaska, separated from Russia by just three miles of the Bering Strait, is estimated to hold significant undiscovered oil and gas reserves, including 13 per cent of the world’s oil.
Developing Russia’s presence in the strait would bolster Putin’s strategic interests in the Arctic region, which accounted for 80 per cent of Russia’s gas production in 2022.
UK government sources told The Telegraph that such incentives could be acceptable to Europe so long as it was not seen as rewarding Russia. “The sense is that it has to be presented to align with public opinion around this, it cannot be seen as a reward for Putin,” one said.
Israel’s occupation of the West Bank could be used as a model for ending the war. Russia would have military and economic control of occupied Ukraine under its own governing body, similar to Israel’s de facto rule of Palestinian territory.
The idea was raised in discussions between Steve Witkoff, Mr Trump’s special envoy and his Russian counterparts, according to The Times.
Sure wasn’t Ukraine’s idea to go to war against Russia. Now all of Ukraine’s dead are going to be swept away and forgotten.
America now saying if America can’t beat them (Russia) we’ll join them in business, in all kinds of deals.
Trump the business man, making deals with other folks’ property. Can’t see Putin giving much away… I’m sure he hasn’t forgotten who blew up NordStream.
“A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.” (Prov.17:23) “He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.” (Prov.15:27) “And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.” (Exo.23:8) “Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.” (Deut.16:19)
The Russians already possess/occupy all the mineral resources they could possibly want. Couple that with China, and everyone else is pretty much irrelevant. Trump has nothing to offer.
thats no deal . Putin the winner takes it all anyway !
LOL…
Drumpfs offering a carve up, which runs thus:
.. ‘we’ll drop the pressure on all your jewish gangsters and give them all their swiss bank accounts and villas in St Tropez back and maybe a seat at the NWO table…you generously share the resources you’ve managed to snatch with black cube and the wall street vultures.. keep killing white Russians all of them…then we’ll hand the war over to the numbskulls in Europe and sell them all their weapons’..
It’s obviously a shoe in because Vlad’s going himself…no doubt they’ve staged it in the Arctic to manage the flow of publicity, rather than lol, discussing ‘opening up all those arctic resources’… which is a laughable cover story..
Of course zelenski’s nowhere to be seen which simply illustrates what a fucking charade it all is..
They should send Sean Penn up their strapped to a hypersonic missile fired from B2, to give them both an Oscar… zelig’s already got his…
Yes Mr President, we will give you access to rare earth mineral mines you already control. The US knows you are stupid enough to expect us to change our behavior.
Zlensky ! your best security deal to stay neutral
and this would be the best deal also for Nato + EU .
fuck you CIA/Mossad/MI5+6 SAS warmonger agents !
your time is over !
The “deal” is mostly centered around Ukrainian minerals which Trump and ZOG America have no right to give away. They have done nothing to really “defend” the Ukrainians in a war they deliberately provoked and made a deal with Russia to get a huge chunks by way of installments for standing down in Syria and then getting out of that nation entirely. Now the great crooked “deal-making” ZOG nation is offering Russia a much greater hunk of the Ukraine and other interests to abandon Iran.
The US next to Israel is the greatest ZOG nation on earth, then come the UK and all nations controlled by the Rothschild central banking cartel. Generally most people of the the US-Israeli-led West love the lies they are fed every day. They really couldn’t care less that from the outset of the Russian “invasion” in February 2022 the deal was to carve up the Ukraine with Russia getting a huge hunk and the Zio corporate interests the rest, and Russia abandoning Syria to let it be carved up mainly to fuel the Zio Greater Israel Project.
No, not even in reading theses articles on TTS today will the readers bother to connect the dots. The reason is that the groupthink is more comfortable. How many Ukrainians and Syrians have been slaughtered and the people driven off of their lands in the machinations of these ZOG powers since they started the Syrian civil war in 2011 and then invaded the Ukraine with their ZOG NGO’s beginning in 2012? No, the people of the West do not care and they will continue to turn a blind eye to all of the dirty deals by the so-called major powers and their land clearance and ethnic cleansing operations.
There is no difference to what the ZOG powers are doing, than an underworld crook moving into your neighborhood and sending members of his family to your door and telling you cede your house and property to their family and to move out or be exterminated. As for nations and the way this crooked world is run under the rubric of “might makes right”, if you sign a paper agreeing to cede your nation or parts of it even at gunpoint, then according international law your have lost your property and your rights. Duress does not matter. If you have the power then you simply are entitled to take what you want.
So, why not have a revolution and “take” back our nations from these monsters running things.
i wear my tee shirt with pride
” i am an antisemite”
people have stopped me and shook my hand not one person has disaproved
the stall on the market has been told by police to not sell any more
or union jack tee shirts
Nato started prepping Ukraine for it’s war on Russia in 1992.
https://larrycjohnson.substack.com/p/the-road-to-war-in-ukraine-the-history
The US overthrew Ukrainian Governments who didn’t want a war twice , in 2004 – The USAID “Orange Revolution” and 2014 Nuland’s coup.
It’s a US war and the US lost.
i’m surprised Trumpy hasn’t offered Vlad one of his derelict Atlant!c City casinos as a sweetener to “close the deal”!
😂🤣😉
@therlying re “So, why not have a revolution and “take” back our nations from these monsters running things.”
Good grief! Don’t you know that the Pwemmy FagBall Season starts this weekend???
So if youre relying on THICKBrits to “take the nation back” I’m afraid they have better things to do… so your ” revolution” will have to wait until next April… when the last wanker wanders outta the stands… after the last ball has been kicked has been kicked by the last African..
The drivel from the Regime media never ends.
So Trump wants something he hasn’t got, from somebody who’s already got it, and has offered to pay for it with something he hasn’t go,t to somebody who’s already got that as well? If that’s Trump’s Art of the Deal he should be ashamed of himself, ripping off retards like that.
Why all of this seems planned and like a lame joke. America has some obsession with Russia. Why can’t they just stay out of their business?
11 time zones full of natural resources and Putin is offered minerals, lol, because Russia just doesn’t have but a smidgen of Rare Earth Elements / Minerals. Uh-huh.