Trump doesn't want Ukraine's rare earth minerals. He wants their gold

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The proposed agreement for Ukraine to pay back the U.S. with rare earth minerals doesn’t even say rare earths. It says “all relevant government-owned natural resource assets.”

I don’t even think Ukraine has rare earths: Will the Critical Minerals Deal be a Windfall for the US?

But they sure have a lot of gold: Berehove mine - Wikipedia.

Why does he want gold? Because he is about to reprice gold. Currently the U.S. government prices gold at $42.22/ounce: Status Report of U.S. Government Gold Reserve - Report as of: February 28, 2021

In preparation of the U.S. government repricing gold, they are bringing it all back into the U.S.: 'Unseen' forces moving a lot of gold back to the U.S.? What's really happening – Josh Phair | Kitco News

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I know they have a whole lot of titanium.

Here’s an intersting story of how Soviet titanium was obtained and used in the SR-71 spy plane that we built to spy on the Soviet Union. :+1:

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