There is a difference in a commercial entity who wants to purchase land/mineral rights of the land owners for development
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The government ceasing the land to make a political agreement where the legitimate land owner gets nothing but screwed.
They call it free enterprise compared with government control of everything, which if I understand most, you would not like, Perhaps you do when it is someone else’s property ?
All Zelensky needs to do is say that the nation will accept foreign investment from ….. ? Company’s would pay for the necessary things to harvest this, not the government.
The government does not own the assets and can not bargain them away.
But he does NOT have the final word anyway. His legislature does. Ukraine is a democracy. Despite the talk otherwise.
Compare that to the deals being sought. Sound democratic ? Free enterprise ?
You do have democratic values ? How about free enterprise ?
Sounds like someone may be steering you away from them by disguising them as something else. After all, you are being told Zelensky is a dictator. Why no harsh words for Putin, who actually is ? And this is the kind of a deal is one that only a dictator can make. And it did not happen. What does that say ? Zelensky stood up for democracy and free enterprise.
Money is a strong motivator. It brings power you can not see, but have to live with.
So, if you owned land in southeast Ukraine, are you going to give up your ownership so easily for your land and your mineral rights ? Have you ever thought to look at who is the beneficiary of these deals and compare them ? But one side is not telling you because they know you will not like it in advance. And for no other reason, you can’t pick on what you don’t know.
What is there ?
Iron ore and copper, oil, gas and lithium and some other rare earths. Perhaps $3 Trillion dollars worth.
And the bigger deal, unlike most of Russia who does not have the infrastructure to get at the minerals they have, Ukraine is easy with ports in the Black Sea and a road and rail infrastructure.
That is because Russia exploited the riches of it’s oil for nothing to build out it’s infrastructure. Just went to someone’s pocket. I wonder who ?
RU has $80 Trillion in mineral assets. But can’t get at them easily. But more important if they did, they don’t have the sea access to move them outside the country in places that can’t be cut off for their bad behavior by the west and they know one day they will try to achieve. They need to take them in advance.
Perhaps you understand Russia interest now ? In the Baltic and Ukraine ?
We have no assurance of what 47 would do with those assets… Exactly who would get them ? The US is not in the business of making gas or oil or batteries.
Or does Musk get the copper and lithium ?
He could give them to Putin/oligarchs for a cease fire ? That is what Putin wants and by the looks of it, he might get it. Keeps the Crimean ports for access to the sea.
Europe needs to step up this game and provide some tax incentive to company’s that would seek to make a deal for these minerals to give Ukraine a future economy after the war. or be faced with trying to support it in other ways to keep it stable. After all the US gave China ‘most favorite trading nation’ for about 2 decades. look at it now. Free enterprise is a tool to help you solve your problems if done in a controlled way.