President Trump’s demand that Ukraine sign over a huge chunk of its economy as repayment for help fending off Russia is flat-out wrong. Period.
The proposed contract, which reportedly hit Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky’s desk last week, demands half the country’s revenues from natural resources, ports and infrastructure indefinitely as payback for US military aid since the war began.
That would quickly add up to countless billions more than we’ve given Ukraine; it’s a demand a victor might make of a country that started and lost a war, to teach a lesson.
Indeed, as a share of GDP it looks to be harsher than what the victorious allies imposed on Germany in the Peace of Versailles after World War One.
Hello: Ukraine is the victim of this war, not too mention our ally.
And the president’s off-the-cuff remarks about Zelensky late Tuesday were wildly off-base: “You’ve been there for three years. You should have ended it. You should have never started it.”
He…
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