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The world is watching for the peace negotiations promised by you. The world is more concerned about the 1.2 to 1.5 million lost or destroyed Ukrainian lives, and the unknown number of Russian lives, than they are about the $300 B the US has given Ukraine.
Before you put too much hope in getting equivalent wealth back from Ukraine in a commercialized peace deal, remember that most of Ukraine's rare earth resources, about $7.8 trillion dollars worth, sits in the region of eastern Ukraine that is populated with Russians. The Russians already control it.
The remaining wealth of Ukraine is largely agricultural. That is in the west, on land controlled or owned by Cargill, Dupont, and Monsanto.
Prior to any meeting with President Putin, it might be helpful for Gen. Kellogg and your diplomatic staff to study the Austrian State Treaty of1955.
On May 15, 1955, representatives of the governments of the Soviet Union, Great Britain, the United States, and France signed a treaty that granted Austria independence and arranged for the withdrawal of all Soviet occupation forces. These governments signed the agreement with the understanding that the newly independent state of Austria would declare its neutrality, creating a buffer zone between the East and the West. The Austrian State Treaty was the only treaty signed by both the Soviet Union and United States in the decade after the 1947 Paris Peace Treaties, and it marked the only Cold War era withdrawal by the Soviet Union from a territory it occupied. The treaty was honored by the Soviets. Their troops were withdrawn rapidly and efficiently.
...there was a sober silence in the room. Samuel Adams, a key figure in the American Revolution and a signer of the Declaration of Independence, spoke up to say,
“We have this day restored the Sovereign to Whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let His kingdom come.”
Colonel Douglas MacGregor predicts a continuation of the Iran war soon, once all sides have replenished missile stocks.
"Washington’s political class manifests much less regard for the long-term strategic interests of its own citizens—their security and prosperity. As a result, Washington pays an exorbitant price in reputation and treasure for policies that confront Palestinians with the choice of death or expulsion from their homelands.
"Assumptions of tacit acceptance or rapid capitulation are implicit and dangerous.
[The Muslims will not 'do a deal.']
"When Hitler was briefed on the expected Soviet reaction to Operation Barbarossa, Major General Ernst Koestring, a Prussian officer fluent in Russian from a family that had lived in Moscow since the reign of Catherine the Great, advised: “Initially, German forces will advance rapidly. The various peoples on the Soviet periphery will likely welcome the German forces. Resistance will be weak. But when the Germans advance into ...
