Minerals deal would guarantee Ukraine’s security

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00:00Yeah, just what you said in your first answer, I mean, you sort of suggested this minerals

00:04deal does contain what we can sort of interpret as being a security guarantee or security

00:11guarantees.

00:12Just tell us why you think there is some element of security guarantee in the minerals deal.

00:17Sure.

00:18Well, look, I think the way that President Trump and his team view this is that that

00:23deal, that minerals or economic commercial deal, if you will, that will be putting likely

00:28here U.S. citizens on the ground in Ukraine.

00:31You're going to have business people from the United States on the ground in Ukraine.

00:36Other people, likely security forces, U.S. security forces, I would suspect, on the ground

00:41in Ukraine.

00:42So the reality is, if you have citizens, U.S. citizens on the ground there, plus you just

00:47have a further stake in the United States on the ground in Ukraine, further investment

00:52by the United States into Ukraine, that's going to serve, I think, in the eyes of the

00:55Trump administration as a deterrence to President Putin.

00:58It's going to make it less likely for President Putin to invade, and I think it gets it more

01:03likely that you get to a ceasefire and even more likely that you get both parties to negotiating

01:07table here.

01:08So I think people need to recognize that this deal, this minerals deal, if you will, is

01:12not just about the minerals.

01:13It's not just about the economics of this or paying back, if you will, the taxpayers

01:17of the United States.

01:18I think this administration truly believes that that in its own right will serve as a

01:22security guarantee.