🌍 Ukraine and the U.S. Draw Closer Over Natural Resources

🌍 Ukraine and the U.S. Draw Closer Over Natural Resources

✅ Ukraine set to sign memorandum with the U.S. on natural resource trade
(as announced by First Deputy Prime Minister Svyrydenko)

📌 Backdrop: U.S.-China Rivalry

• China has imposed export restrictions on strategic resources like germanium and rare earths
• The U.S. is in a hurry to reduce its dependence on Chinese supply

📌 Ukraine’s Key Resources

• Germanium, molybdenum, antimony, rare earth elements, etc.
  → Ukraine could become a future alternative supply source to China

🧠 It’s more realistic to interpret the U.S. push for peace in Ukraine not as a humanitarian move, but as a strategy to secure its own national interests

🎯 Strategic Goals:

• End the war in Ukraine quickly
• Create a stable environment that allows U.S.-led development of natural resources

⚠️ On the other hand, China and Russia want to prevent this
→ Russia may be deliberately dragging out negotiations to obstruct peace efforts.