Trump said this about the mineral rights he wants from Ukrainel
“We’ll take everything we can get!”
It looks like Putin introduced the idea of making big War Profits – and Trump ate the whole hook! I think Macron is in the Oval Office lookig for a way to – get out of the worst deal America ever made.
John Presco
EXTRA! I figured out what is wrong with Trump. He never had a best friend, because he never found anyone he considered his equal. Did he find Putin his equal, and he just has to prove it? This is severe narcissistic behavior. This explains Musk.
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Russia is offering the Trump administration a deal on Russian natural resources and access to the Arctic, The Moscow Times reported on Feb. 18, citing Kirill Dmitriev, one of the Russian delegates in recent Saudi Arabia talks.
A Russian delegation led by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met on Feb. 18 with a U.S. delegation led by State Secretary Marco Rubio, marking the highest-level meeting between the two sides since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Russian and the U.S. delegates in Riyadh also discussed economic cooperation, including global energy prices. Moscow is suggesting that American oil companies may return to the country and is interested in joint projects with the U.S. in the Arctic, Dmitriev said before the talks started.
The statement comes as Kyiv announced it is not ready to sign the U.S.-proposed deal on Ukraine’s natural resources. President Volodymyr Zelensky commented that Ukraine is open to investment but argued that the memorandum, presented by U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Feb. 12, needs more work as it does not include any concrete security guarantees.
“We believe that at some point, they (American companies) will come back because why would they start giving up the opportunity to access Russian natural resources that Russia gave them?” Dmitriev said, adding that large American oil companies had “very successful businesses” in Russia.
“We should also do joint projects, including, for example, in the Arctic and other areas. Joint projects will allow us to be more successful,” Dmitriev added.
U.S. companies allegedly lost $300 billion from sanctions against Russia, and Joe Biden’s administration “gave a lot of wrong messages” about the state of the Russian economy, Dmitriev claimed.
Before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, only one major U.S. company, Exxon Mobil, was producing oil in Russia. The company also owns 30% of the Sakhalin 1 oil project. Following the imposition of sanctions against Sakhalin 1, Exxon Mobil tried to sell its stake but failed, according to The Moscow Times.
After the outbreak of the all-out war, the leading American oilfield service companies, including Halliburton, Schlumberger, and Baker Hughes, also announced their withdrawal from Russia.
Russia is also expecting the U.S. to unfreeze Russian state assets, including those owned by the Central Bank, which were previously invested in American ones. The assets are valued at about $6 billion, the outlet reported.
Altogether, nearly $300 billion of the Central Bank’s foreign exchange reserves have been frozen, of which over $200 billion are in Europe.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio reportedly assured European allies that the U.S. would maintain sanctions against Moscow at least until an agreement is reached to end the Russia-Ukraine war.
Yet, following talks between the U.S. and Russian delegations, Rubio suggested that lifting sanctions against Russia would be part of any peace process, saying that “concessions” would have to be made by “all sides” to bring an end to “any conflict.”
Russia and China are now better prepared to fight together than Britain and America were before World War ii.
For decades, Herbert W. Armstrong predicted an alliance between Russia and China. “Scripture prophesies two great military powers to arise in the last days—one the revival of the Roman Empire by a federation of 10 nations in the territory of the ancient Roman Empire; the other … Russia, with her allies … possibly China or Japan,” he wrote in the Plain Truth as far back as 1934.
He kept proclaiming this message as the Communist Party took over China. He held to this forecast even as Russia and China broke off relations in 1964, and Chinese posters publicly called for the people of the world “to overthrow Soviet revisionism.“
Since Mr. Armstrong died in 1986, much has changed. The ussr has fallen and been replaced by Vladimir Putin’s Russia. China has risen to become an economic and even military powerhouse. Yet Mr. Armstrong’s prophecies continue to prove correct. Russia and China are now close allies.
Rosamond Press 
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