Experts say proposed deal with U.S. makes no sense
“If you want critical minerals, Ukraine ain’t the place to look for them,” declares Jack Lifton, executive chairman of the Critical Minerals Institute. “It’s a fantasy. There’s no point to any of this. There’s some other agenda going on here. I can’t believe that anybody in Washington actually believes that it makes sense to get rare earths in Ukraine.”
I could see the whole thing being about withdrawing support from Ukraine because the “deal” fell through. Maybe it was always a means to get to where we are now, with the US no longer supplying information and weapons to Ukraine.