{"id":303703,"date":"2025-02-17T07:50:32","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T07:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=303703"},"modified":"2025-02-18T08:05:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T08:05:31","slug":"trump-wants-us-troops-to-guard-ukraines-rare-earths-nbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=303703","title":{"rendered":"Trump wants US troops to guard Ukraine\u2019s rare earths \u2013 NBC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunday News Tanzania \u2013 Feb 16, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The US could send troops to guard Ukraine\u2019s rare earth minerals, which it wants as repayment for American aid, NBC reported on Saturday, citing unnamed officials.<\/p>\n

The report followed recent statements made by US President Donald Trump, who demanded the \u201cequivalent of $500 billion worth of rare earths\u201d from Ukraine in exchange for what he estimated to be \u201cmore than $300 billion\u201d Washington had provided in aid since the escalation of Kiev\u2019s conflict with Moscow in 2022.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s demand was presented to Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in a contract proposal he brought to their meeting in Kiev earlier this week. According to multiple reports, under the deal, the US is to be granted 50% ownership of Ukraine\u2019s rare earth minerals as reimbursement for US aid.<\/p>\n

However, according to four officials who spoke to NBC, the proposed contract also signaled Washington\u2019s intention to deploy American troops to the sites as a protection detail. The deployment could reportedly come after Russia and Ukraine reached a deal to end the ongoing conflict.<\/p>\n

Washington\u2019s position on the deployment of troops to Ukraine is currently unclear. Speaking at a gathering of Kiev\u2019s supporters in Brussels earlier this week, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ruled out sending American forces there following any security deal. However, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal on Thursday, US Vice President J.D. Vance indicated that the possibility of sending American troops to Ukraine remained \u201con the table\u201d if Moscow refused to engage in good-faith negotiations.<\/p>\n

Zelensky has so far rejected the US bid to take ownership of 50% of his country\u2019s rare earth minerals. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, he said the US proposal so far lacked \u201csecurity guarantees\u201d for Kiev and was not \u201cin the interests of sovereign Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me it is very important that there is a connection between some kind of security guarantees and some kind of investment\u2026 If we want to sign something we have to understand that it will work and it will be very positive for both nations,\u201d he stated. Zelensky indicated that the document Bessent presented to him will need to be amended to reflect Ukraine\u2019s interests, noting he would like to have a mutually beneficial partnership with the US as opposed to simply giving his country\u2019s natural resources away.<\/p>\n

There are over a dozen elements considered to be rare earths, and their applications range from lighting and batteries to nuclear power and lasers. According to Ukraine\u2019s Institute of Geology, the country\u2019s deposits include lanthanum, cerium, neodymium, erbium and yttrium. However, Zelensky recently admitted that a large chunk of Ukraine\u2019s mineral-rich territories, some 20%, is currently under Russian control.<\/p>\n

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According to multiple reports, the Trump administration has proposed that the US be granted 50% ownership of Ukraine\u2019s rare earth minerals as reimbursement for US aid. If agreed, U.S. troops would then be deployed to protect Trump\u2019s investment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":289886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=303703"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303706,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303703\/revisions\/303706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/289886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=303703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=303703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=303703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}