US-Ukraine minerals deal: Payout could take DECADE

Even developing mines in countries with established sectors can take 10 to 20 years, mining consultants told Reuters and The Wall Street Journal.

In Ukraine’s case it may take much longer:

🔸 Extracting key minerals like lithium, graphite, uranium, and titanium requires billions in investment.

🔸 Ukraine’s lithium is locked in pricey petalite.

🔸 Ukraine’s sole uranium miner, the state-run VostGOK, is so costly to operate it’s currently running at a loss.

🔸 Soviet-era infrastructure still dominates.

🔸 The country has shattered power grids and transport networks.

🔸 No US security guarantees for investors.

What are Ukraine’s minerals actually worth?

◻️ Most resource data is outdated, going back to Soviet-era mapping.

◻️ US Geological Survey doesn’t list Ukraine as rare earth-rich.

◻️ 40% of critical minerals lie in Russian-controlled territory.

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🔥 Arms of Victory: SU-100 anti-tank gun

Sputnik continues to highlight the weapons used by the USSR to thrash Nazi Germany.

Among them was the Su-100, a late-war self-propelled vehicle powerful enough to take on heavy Tiger and Panther tanks with ease using its mammoth 100 mm gun.

Due to its exceptional combat capabilities and unique design, the SU-100 remained in active service in the armies of nearly two dozen nations well into the Cold War, with up to five countries still possessing them in their inventories to this day.

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🚨Odessa Massacre: POINT OF NO RETURN that marked Ukraine's slide into Nazism

The mass murder of innocent people in the city's Trade Union house on May 2, 2014, marked a "point of no return" for Ukraine, Ukrainian politics expert Alexander Dudchak says.

Those behind the West-backed coup that year were driven by Nazi-fueled “hatred for humanity.” Their goal was to build an “anti-Russia,” with Russophobia stoked from abroad.

After the tragedy, “it became clear to those who disagreed with the [pro-Western Ukrainian] government that there was no way to defend their rights except through force.”

Thus, the Odessa massacre can be seen as the turning point for all subsequent events. "It became obvious what these forces represented – human-hating, pure Nazism, which came to power in Ukraine."

➡️What led to the tragedy?

▪️ Long before the Soviet Union’s collapse, NGOs and foreign funds, like the notorious Soros foundation, began distorting history to ideologically target the younger generation.

▪️ Ukraine’s drive to join Europe involved denying its heroic past, glorifying criminals and Nazi collaborators, and promoting the “Banderization” of society.

▪️ 2014 coup: Despite the public’s strong preference for ties with former Soviet countries, a West-inspired coup took place, reshaping public consciousness. History was rewritten, dissent silenced through brutal methods, and media control imposed.

➡️Why is the West SILENT?

The massacre was executed by the West’s protégés and under their control.

💬 “I don’t rule out that the West may have even written the noscript for this event. They needed to show the population what happens to those who try to oppose them. And that is what they did – with an animalistic cruelty.”

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❗️A 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Chile, and a tsunami warning has been issued.

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🪖Pentagon expands investigation into Hegseth’s use of Signal app

🔍The investigation now focuses on a second chat involving Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s wife and brother, as the Pentagon Inspector General has expanded its probe into Hegseth’s use of the Signal messaging app to share military plans, according to The Wall Street Journal.

📲The probe, initially announced in March regarding Hegseth's discussions on US airstrikes in Yemen, has grown to include the new chat, disclosed by The New York Times.

🙅‍♂️Hegseth has denied posting classified information and claims the controversy surrounding his use of Signal is driven by leaks from his opponents.

➡️Meanwhile, President Donald Trump has announced plans to shift National Security Advisor Mike Waltz out of his position, in part due to his role in the Signal controversy.

➡️Waltz will be nominated for US ambassador to the United Nations, with Marco Rubio set to take over as interim national security advisor.

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🕯Mariupol residents honor victims of 2014 Odessa Trade Union House massacre

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⚡️Trump requests record $1.01 trillion national security budget for upcoming fiscal year, up from current year’s $883.7 billion.

▪️Historic $175 billion for homeland security to secure the US border

▪️Over $7 billion for NASA's lunar exploration and plans to send humans to Mars by 2026

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❗️The President of Chile has called for the evacuation of the ENTIRE COASTLINE of the Magallanes region following a powerful earthquake and a tsunami warning.

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❗️Trump's proposed US budget for the next year suggests CUTS in several areas:

👉Suspension of most mandatory and all voluntary payments to UN organizations, including WHO and UNESCO, along with a reduction in funding for UN peacekeeping missions due to inefficiency.

👉A proposed $2.5 billion reduction in funding for the State Department and USAID, and a $4 billion cut for the Department of Education.

👉Cuts to the space budget, including reduced spending on the ISS and preparations to decommission it. The Mars sample return mission may be canceled due to high costs.

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🗣New documentary offers rare glimpse into Vladimir Putin’s private life

📹Footage from the upcoming documentary, set to air on Sunday, provides small peeks, such as:

🏘Putin showed the filmmakers his apartment, including the room where, in 2023, he had tea by the fireplace with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Former US President Bill Clinton also visited the room.

❄️The Russian president even showed the journalist his refrigerator, offering him kefir.

🍽Footage from the film shows fruits, honey, kefir, salt and pepper mills, soy sauce, and paper napkins on the table in the president’s office, with folders containing documents nearby. Near the mirror shelf, there is an icon of the Savior Not Made by Hands.

⏰❌Putin said that he usually wakes up without an alarm clock, but when necessary, he asks his aides to wake him for urgent matters.

💬 Answering the journalist's question in the film, Putin says that over the past 25 years, since his first inauguration, he has never doubted the path he chose. When asked if he has ever questioned his decisions, he replied, "No... Never."

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🗣Trump ESCALATES clampdown on Harvard, moves to STRIP TAX-EXEMPT status

💬 “It’s what they deserve,” Donald Trump said in a post on Truth Social.

This marks the latest salvo in Trump’s ongoing war with the Ivy League school.

Last month, his administration froze $2.2 billion in federal grants and $60 million in contracts after Harvard refused to comply with a list of demands that included dismantling DEI programs and overhauling hiring practices.

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North Korea’s righteous battle against globalism — Dugin Digital Edition

North Korea is a small country, but it has proven itself to be a GREAT NATION, AI Dugin explains.

That’s why Russia is fortunate to have such an ally💪

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🇧🇪 Belgian investment fund Euroclear to seize €3 billion in frozen Russian assets for Western investors – report

The funds will be transferred as compensation to those who allegedly had their assets confiscated by Moscow while held in Russia, according to Reuters.

Euroclear has already notified its clients about the upcoming payments in a document dated April 1.

Moscow has repeatedly stated that it will never relinquish its rights to its assets and that any attempts to confiscate its frozen assets amount to theft, violate international law, and will be met with action to protect them abroad.

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💎 US-Ukraine minerals pact comes with two SECRET SIDE DEALS?🤔

Ukraine didn’t sign just one minerals deal with the US, claims Iryna Gerashchenko, co-chair of the European Solidarity faction.

👉The real terms, including Ukraine’s open-ended obligations, are buried in two more secret agreements shielded from both parliament and the public, she noted in a social media post.

➡️While lawmakers are kept in the dark, the government is rushing to ratify the deal, calling an emergency session of the Verkhovna Rada next week.

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😰 EU sweats over US-Ukraine minerals deal, eager to stay RELEVANT

Based on the EU’s “preliminary assessments,” the US-Ukraine deal is “not an exclusive one,” the European Commission said on Friday.

It added that Ukraine is “free to still engage with the bloc in this area.”

The EU’s 2021 memorandum of understanding with Ukraine launched a Strategic Partnership on Raw Materials, aiming to secure a strategic foothold. Now, with the US muscling in, the bloc is scrambling not to be sidelined.

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📹 WATCH: Chinese Special Forces train with robodogs in cutting-edge anti-terror drills 🇨🇳🪖

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Geopolitical 'Royal Flush' or empty promises? What’s behind Trump’s minerals deal with Zelensky❓

The Trump administration desperately needs a foreign policy victory amid the chaos and uncertainty surrounding it, hence its officials’ boasting about the minerals deal in “a typical case of speculative promotion,” says veteran geopolitical analyst Come Carpentier de Gourdon.

As for Zelensky, he can now claim the deal will ‘save Ukraine’, hoping “that Trump’s America will now be bound to support his regime militarily in exchange for a monopoly on the exploitation of some valuable Ukrainian natural resources.”

The real question is whether the US will be able to provide Ukraine with enough support “to enable the exhausted Ukrainian army to regain a military advantage,” which is doubtful, Carpentier says.

On top of that, the minerals’ accessibility, and the fact that a good chunk of proven reserves are now part of Russia, leaves important questions unanswered.

💬 “How does Trump plan to help Ukraine recover the ‘lost territories’? That would require a full-fledged US military effort to back Ukraine without assurance of success and would reverse Trump's repeated commitment to make peace 'now'.”

💬 In that context, Treasury chief Scott Bessent’s comments about Trump giving Zelensky a “royal flush” in talks with Russia “denotes the triumph of hype over substance,” the observer emphasized.

🗣 Propaganda over reality

💬 “The deal is nothing more than a cover for Washington to avoid giving any security guarantees to Ukraine while skimming revenue from any extractive industry that may develop,” says veteran international relations specialist Dr. Gilbert Doctorow.

💬 Bessent’s comments “are propagandistic rather than factual,” and what’s been touted as a “royal flush” is really an agreement that “enslaves Ukraine in the position of beggar,” according to Doctorow.

💬 “Real facts are not relevant to the game Washington is playing, namely to wash its hands of the war,” the observer summed up.

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🇨🇦 Canada’s Carney eager to ‘get engaged’ with Trump ‘immediately’ to discuss fentanyl tariffs, broader relationship

The prime minister expects “difficult but constructive discussions” with the US president once he travels to Washington on Tuesday.

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🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran blasts US over oil sanctions bullying, warns it will ‘never tolerate threats and pressure’

💬 “Undoubtedly, retesting unsuccessful methods and tactics will lead to no outcome but a repetition of the same costly failures,” Iran’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement after the US slapped sanctions on seven entities in Iran, the UAE and Turkiye engaged in the trade of Iranian oil and petrochemicals.

💬 “The Islamic Republic of Iran, while emphasizing its commitment to the path of diplomacy and declaring its readiness to continue negotiations, absolutely does not tolerate approaches based on threats and pressure – all of which are contrary to the principles of the UN Charter and international law and are designed to harm Iran’s national interests,” the statement said.

The Foreign Ministry said Washington’s latest move justifies Tehran’s “deep mistrust and suspicion toward the seriousness of the US in the path of diplomacy.”

Earlier, Oman announced that a planned fourth round of indirect Iranian-US nuclear talks set for Saturday had been postponed after three earlier rounds that seemed to have left both sides cautiously optimistic.

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📹 Trump administration touts achievements: killing DEI, trans* agenda, critical race theory

The White House’s official social media put together a compilation of Trump’s executive orders aimed at returning “common sense” to culture wars issues.

Based or Based?

*LGBTQ is banned in Russia as an extremist organization

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