{"id":8784,"date":"2025-02-25T22:07:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T22:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/trumps-ukraine-mineral-deal-is-seen-as-protection-racket-diplomacy\/"},"modified":"2025-02-25T22:07:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T22:07:30","slug":"trumps-ukraine-mineral-deal-is-seen-as-protection-racket-diplomacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/trumps-ukraine-mineral-deal-is-seen-as-protection-racket-diplomacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Ukraine Mineral Deal Is Seen as \u2018Protection Racket\u2019 Diplomacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ukraine is <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/24\/world\/europe\/ukraine-us-mineral-wealth-deal.html\" title=\"\">nearing a deal<\/a> to hand over a portion of its revenues from natural resources to the United States, under heavy pressure from the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The agreement, in its current form, would not include any explicit security guarantees to deter Russian aggression. The White House has argued that the mere existence of American economic interests should be sufficient for Ukraine, which is <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/25\/world\/europe\/trump-ukraine-russia-war.html\" title=\"\">facing a harsh reality<\/a>: The United States wants to be paid in exchange for helping the country fend off an invader.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWhat better could you have for Ukraine than to be in an economic partnership with the United States?\u201d Mike Waltz, the U.S. national security adviser, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/anadoluagency\/reel\/DGWSj0qOmTj\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">said on Friday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump has long demanded that NATO and other allies contribute more to their own defense. But the minerals agreement would represent a major escalation in his transactional approach to foreign policy. The United States was once seen as the world\u2019s policeman, but to many analysts it now seems more like an extortionate Mafia kingpin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The explicit demand for Ukraine\u2019s mineral wealth while the country is in dire straits has the \u201cfeel of a protection racket,\u201d said Virginia Page Fortna, a political scientist at Columbia University who is a leading expert on peace agreements.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe new security guarantee is essentially a shakedown,\u201d said Steven A. Cook, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, referring to the statement by Mr. Waltz that being in \u201ceconomic partnership\u201d with the United States would ensure Ukraine\u2019s security.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Experts cannot recall a precedent for the United States, or any other country, extracting cash or resources from its own allies during a time of war. They say Mr. Trump\u2019s transactional diplomacy sends a message to allies that the United States cannot be trusted to help its friends or honor its obligations. And it tells his adversaries that he is willing to give up long-term strategic interests for short-term wins, experts say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Speaking in the Oval Office on Friday, Mr. Trump said, \u201cWe\u2019re going to either sign a deal, or there\u2019s going to be a lot of problems with them.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-65e34fe7\">Not just \u2018the quiet part out loud\u2019<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">During my reporting for this column, I spoke to six experts on peace negotiations. None of them were aware of any situation in which the United States or any other country demanded a formal payment agreement from its own partner during a war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It might seem like the demand that Ukraine hand over its mineral wealth is just Mr. Trump being blunt about a diplomatic truth that is usually left unsaid: That security guarantees often have an implicit price. But in fact, experts say his approach represents a radical departure for American foreign policy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">There are plenty of cases in which the United States has used its military might to protect U.S. economic interests. For example, ensuring access to oil has been a central pillar of U.S. policy in the Middle East, most notably in the first Gulf War, when the U.S. defended Kuwait from an invasion by Iraq.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But the United States \u201cnever said to the Kuwaitis, \u2018Hey, you gotta pay us for this,\u2019\u201d said Mr. Cook of the Council on Foreign Relations. Allies such as Saudi Arabia helped to fund the Gulf War, but not under duress. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t like Dick Cheney showed up in Saudi Arabia in August and said, \u2018Here\u2019s our terms,\u2019\u201d Cook added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-453485c4\">The message to friendly nations: \u2018Pay me\u2019<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The president\u2019s latest tactics suggest that he is trying to apply the lessons of machine politics in New York City, where he built his real-estate career, to the world of international relations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As my colleague <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/25\/opinion\/ezra-klein-podcast-maggie-haberman.html\" title=\"\">Maggie Haberman has reported<\/a>, Mr. Trump\u2019s model of leadership seem to be based on figures like Meade Esposito, a boss of the Brooklyn Democratic machine who controlled patronage jobs and ruled with an \u201ciron fist.\u201d In machine politics, every decision is essentially an opportunity for political bosses to extract benefits for themselves and their supporters, and extracting more favors is a signal of more power.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But scholars of international relations say that foreign policy doesn\u2019t work that way. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In international relations, credibility is a crucial element of power. Deterrence depends on whether a country keeps its promises. Without that credibility, hostile countries are more likely to test the limits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It is no longer clear which countries the Trump administration sees as friends and which it sees as foes. But in either case, his actions also send a clear message that the United States is at best an unreliable and expensive partner \u2014 and at worst that it will treat any country\u2019s dependence on the United States as a weakness to exploit, experts said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWhat we\u2019re seeing is a successful short-run strategy and a disastrous long-run strategy,\u201d said Joseph Nye, a political scientist at the Harvard Kennedy School who coined the term \u2018soft power.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A coercive, adversarial approach like Mr. Trump\u2019s can arguably be effective at extracting short-term concessions, Nye said. Canada and Mexico both promised to increase border security and pursue better fentanyl enforcement, which won them a 30-day reprieve on the tariffs that he threatened.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But in the long term, countries that are currently partners in U.S. trade and foreign policy now have a strong incentive to seek closer relationships with countries like China.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In Europe, there is already a push to increase military spending in order to be less reliant on the United States, which could have unpredictable consequences. Turkey, which has the second-largest military of any NATO country, could become a more important regional power.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-3656db35\">The message to foes: \u2018Let\u2019s make a deal\u2019<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Analysts say Mr. Trump\u2019s foreign policy sends a message to Russia and other hostile countries that may be even more consequential: that the United States is willing to prioritize short-term financial gain over its broader long-term interests.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Or perhaps the United States could simply be bought out with a better offer. President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia said on Monday that the U.S.-Ukraine minerals deal was not a concern to him because Russia has \u201csignificantly more resources of this kind than Ukraine.\u201d He is ready to \u201coffer\u201d mineral resources to American partners, he said, including from the \u2018new territories\u2019 Russia has occupied in eastern Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">President Felix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo, perhaps sensing that U.S. support is now available to those who can pay, has recently offered to make a mineral deal with the United States, granting access to strategic minerals like coltan and cobalt in exchange for support against the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/25\/world\/asia\/trump-ukraine-taiwan.html\" title=\"\">Diminished U.S. credibility could invite China<\/a> to test the U.S. commitment to defending Taiwan or territories within the South China Sea. That could endanger longtime U.S. partners and increase the risk that the United States could be drawn into a devastating war with China.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Even if Mr. Trump walks back his provocations in Ukraine and elsewhere, as he has done with his plan for the United States to occupy Gaza, it may take a long time to rebuild what has been lost in the last few weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cA lot of the damage to the credibility of the United States is already done,\u201d Ms. Fortna said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     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