{"id":136006,"date":"2025-03-28T12:25:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T16:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=136006"},"modified":"2025-03-28T14:40:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T18:40:51","slug":"telegraph-revealed-trumps-plan-to-force-ukraine-to-restore-putins-gas-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=136006","title":{"rendered":"(Telegraph) Ambrose Evans-Pritchard-Revealed: Trump\u2019s plan to force Ukraine to restore Putin\u2019s gas empire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Donald Trump is holding a gun to the head of Volodymyr Zelensky, demanding huge reparations payments and laying claim to half of Ukraine\u2019s oil, gas, and hydrocarbon resources as well as almost all its metals and much of its infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The latest version of his \u201cminerals deal\u201d, obtained by The Telegraph, is unprecedented in the history of modern diplomacy and state relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is an expropriation document,\u201d said Alan Riley, an expert on energy law at the Atlantic Council. \u201cThere are no guarantees, no defence clauses, the US puts up nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Americans can walk away, the Ukrainians can\u2019t. I\u2019ve never seen anything like it before.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/business\/2025\/03\/27\/revealed-trump-plan-force-ukraine-restore-putin-gas-empire\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Trump now threatens Europe with assisting Putin in rebuilding his war machine if Zelensky doesn&#8217;t sign over Ukraine&#8217;s resources.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jhRH9B0aeE\">https:\/\/t.co\/jhRH9B0aeE<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Jay in Kyiv (@JayinKyiv) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JayinKyiv\/status\/1905386102036595188?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 27, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump is holding a gun to the head of Volodymyr Zelensky, demanding huge reparations payments and laying claim to half of Ukraine\u2019s oil, gas, and hydrocarbon resources as well as almost all its metals and much of its infrastructure.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=136006\">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":[209,168,144,106,616,665,479,469],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-military-armed-forces","category-office-of-the-president","category-president-donald-trump","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136006","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=136006"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136011,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136006\/revisions\/136011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}