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.”
Because Putin doesn’t give a flying duck for anything east of Moscow, Russia is a major producer of some rare earths.
I guess this is probably a strategy to say: “hey, Russia is selling us double of what Ukraine promised.”