Kikapu wrote:If Zelensky refuses to hand over Ukraine’s mineral wealth to Trump as an loan payments for all the military and cash assistance by the US, then Trump might just make the same deal with Putin on Ukraine’s mineral wealth and help Putin to win the war outright by cutting ALL aid to Ukraine!
Unfortunately, Trump is too dumb to make any wise moves with respect to the Ukraine war.
Instead of looking at cutting Americas’ loses and moving on... he thinks he can steer and direct what is an absolute mess with multiple protagonists!
But the truth of the matter is that the criminal Biden administration was issuing blank cheques to the Ukraine without getting them to sign anything, so technically Zelenski is correct when he says that they were never loans but gifts/donations!
I honestly don’t see Trump ever getting a dime from the Ukrainians without using military force, and the threat of cancelling US support will not work against the Ukrainians for as long as they perceive that Europe is able and willing to step up and fill the vast void; as per hollow European promises.
Of course, Europe won’t be able to replace the US by any stretch of the imagination, but it’ll take about a year before Zelenski finally realizes it.
Russia, now realizing what a volatile character Trump really is may tire of all the games and decide to finish the war off this year with strategic bombing and/or tactical nukes… something they should’ve done from the onset and saved many Russian lives IMHO.