{"id":135017,"date":"2025-02-18T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=135017"},"modified":"2025-02-18T17:49:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T22:49:45","slug":"telegraph-ambrose-evans-pritchard-revealed-trumps-confidential-plan-to-put-ukraine-in-a-stranglehold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=135017","title":{"rendered":"(Telegraph) Ambrose Evans-Pritchard&#8211;Revealed: Trump\u2019s confidential plan to put Ukraine in a stranglehold"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/world-news\/2025\/02\/11\/trump-says-ukraine-may-be-russian-one-day\/\">Donald Trump\u2019s demand for a $500bn (\u00a3400bn) \u201cpayback\u201d from Ukraine<\/a>&nbsp;goes far beyond US control over the country\u2019s critical minerals. It covers everything from ports and infrastructure to oil and gas, and the larger resource base of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The terms of the contract that landed at Volodymyr Zelensky\u2019s office a week ago amount to the US economic colonisation of Ukraine, in legal perpetuity. It implies a burden of reparations that cannot possibly be achieved. The document has caused consternation and panic in Kyiv.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Telegraph has obtained a draft of the pre-decisional contract, marked \u201cPrivileged &amp; Confidential\u2019 and dated Feb 7 2025. It states that the US and Ukraine should form a joint investment fund to ensure that \u201chostile parties to the conflict do not benefit from the reconstruction of Ukraine\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/business\/2025\/02\/17\/revealed-trump-confidential-plan-ukraine-stranglehold\/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Revealed: Trump\u2019s confidential plan to put Ukraine in a stranglehold<br><br>Panic in Kyiv as US president demands higher share of GDP than Germany\u2019s First World War reparations.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3rFDHydtCd\">https:\/\/t.co\/3rFDHydtCd<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Ruchir Sharma (@ruchirsharma_1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ruchirsharma_1\/status\/1891908623925694798?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 18, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump\u2019s demand for a $500bn (\u00a3400bn) \u201cpayback\u201d from Ukraine&nbsp;goes far beyond US control over the country\u2019s critical minerals. It covers everything from ports and infrastructure to oil and gas, and the larger resource base of the country. The terms<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=135017\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,144,106,665,479,469],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-foreign-relations","category-military-armed-forces","category-president-donald-trump","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135017"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135020,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135017\/revisions\/135020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}