I don’t think Putin wants Poland. I don’t think he wants any other part of Europe. He wants the same thing Trump wants.
Ukraine’s massive rare minerals stash.
I didn’t realize quite how much of these crucial materials this small country has the potential of holding. Some estimates are $25 Trillion. This is what everyone is after.
Making it even more juicy, 95% is untapped and will need a massive outside investment to gather. I can’t even imagine the amount of money a global conglomerate would pay someone of influence to get in on the ground floor of this motherload. This would be the real deal of the century. Of course, nobody is going to start investing in a massive rare mineral infrastructure until the war is settled.
Trump got so pissed yesterday because he thought his boy Marco secured a deal for $500B of what Ukraine already had in place. Sadly for the big boss man, Rubio is a simp loser and got played by Zelenskyy. That would have been the perfect start for Trump to get a foothold on that mineral stash as well as stopping the war.
Initially, Putin and Trump are in on this together to steal all the future untapped minerals from Ukraine. I don’t think they trust each other in the long run. I know that neither is very interested is splitting anything with someone else. They want it all, all the time.