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    #1 Brush, May 1, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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    #2 Jay, May 1, 2025 at 8:47 AM
    Are they near the sewage works?
     
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    #3 sadbrewer, May 1, 2025 at 8:57 AM
    It's not as stark as that sounds...it was actually Ukraine's proposal, the minerals are still in the ground largely due to lack of investment so it's not as though they're just shipping ready cast gold bars from the bank. The other aspect is that a very large proportion of the minerals are on land currently occupied by Russia, so there is now a purely transactive reason for Trump to want to see the land recovered.
     
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    #4 Durkar Red, May 1, 2025 at 9:49 AM
    And most of the valuable minerals are in territory currently occupied by Russia
     
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    #5 Stephen Dawson, May 1, 2025 at 9:53 AM
    A recipe for disaster.
     
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    #6 redrum, May 1, 2025 at 9:56 AM
    David lammy says its a good thing and welcomes the deal. Whatever he says I'm going the opposite. Another spineless man.
     
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    #7 Brush, May 1, 2025 at 11:59 AM
    It's a great shame that the government are so far up Trump's nethers. I'm sure that if there was a General Election this year they'd be rapidly distancing themselves from Trump.
     
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    #8 Marc, May 1, 2025 at 12:31 PM
    My bet is Donald Trump will claim it’s the biggest deal in US history and that only he could have made it. My other bet is it won’t yield anything like whatever number he claims. As far as I understand, it’s rare earth that no one in the last 30 years has seen the benefit in mining. Not that any of this will matter to his weird cult rally.
     
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    #9 Burgundy Red, May 1, 2025 at 12:41 PM
    Do we know who is going to refine it?
     
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    #10 sadbrewer, May 1, 2025 at 1:09 PM
    Agreed....there are good reasons for it being untouched.
     
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    #11 Mjt618, May 1, 2025 at 1:13 PM
    It’s no different to Aramco in Saudi Arabia. The Yanks are exploiting the oil in a 50/50 deal with Saudi and in return the Saudis have military presence and protection by the Yanks. The Russia / Ukraine situation is not that different from Saudi and the rest of the Middle East that built up from the beginning of time until the 1st gulf war.
     
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    #12 sadbrewer, May 1, 2025 at 1:15 PM
    They aren't, they're now playing a diplomatic game for adults, rather than the megaphone virtue signalling for their followers that they did in opposition, that has proved embarrassing since. That doesn't mean they were wrong, but why say it when they may have to end up dealing with the orange fool. Very childish politics from people aspiring to high office.
     
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