Trump’s Explosive Putin Summit: Will He Hand Over Ukraine’s Minerals to End the War?

As Pres­i­dent Trump pre­pares for a high-stakes sum­mit with Vladimir Putin, Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Rubio push­es for nor­mal­ized U.S.-Russia rela­tions and a deal to end the Ukraine war. With Zelenskyy’s lead­er­ship fal­ter­ing, Ukrain­ian troops deplet­ed, and a con­tro­ver­sial UK-Ukraine 100-year part­ner­ship, Euro­pean allies scram­ble to counter Trump’s moves. Explore how Putin’s back­ing from Iran and North Korea, Russia’s destruc­tion of Ukraine’s mis­sile pro­gram, and Trump’s “Day One” war-end­ing promise shape this crit­i­cal moment. Learn why Zelenskyy’s fran­tic EU and UK vis­its sig­nal des­per­a­tion to sab­o­tage the sum­mit and secure his own future

• Mar­co and his teams have been meet­ing with Rus­sia to nor­mal­ize rela­tion­ships. Is Trump about to come out and tell the Amer­i­can peo­ple every­thing? Trump will not get rolled in this meet­ing. Trump was telling Zelen­skyy that they know what they did and he didn’t have the cards. Trump is telling the world that Rus­sia won the war. We have seen the maps where Ukrain­ian troops made advances. Ukraine doesn’t have peo­ple to fight. Zelen­sky’s peo­ple and par­lia­ment want him out. The war is over. Zelen­sky is des­per­ate to sab­o­tage the Trump-Putin sum­mit, there is no future for him going for­ward. 
• A call from Pres­i­dent Trump ignit­ed a fran­tic week of diplo­ma­cy by Ukraine. Meet­ing with the EU then run­ning to the UK. 
• Rus­sia derails Ukraine’s west­ern-backed mis­sile pro­gram. Rus­sia has tak­en out the Ukrain­ian mis­sile pro­gram that was pro­vid­ed by the EU. 
• Trump offered Putin min­er­als for peace. Putin keeps say­ing and you are get­ting the min­er­als why? Don­ald Trump is prepar­ing to offer Putin access to rare earth min­er­als to incen­tivise him to end the war in Ukraine. Trump pro­pos­als include giv­ing Putin access to the rare earth min­er­als in the Ukrain­ian ter­ri­to­ries cur­rent­ly occu­pied by Rus­sia. Putin is say­ing he won, does he need to roll right into Kyiv? Putin wants to root out the Nazis, the cor­rup­tion and the dirty par­lia­ment and allow Ukraine to be a sov­er­eign coun­try. 
• Why did Zelen­sky meet with EU and then rush to #10 Down­ing Street the day before the Trump-Putin sum­mit? The Ukrain­ian peo­ple are no longer fight­ing this war, this is Zelenskyy’s war. You keep hear­ing that Ukraine needs secu­ri­ty guar­an­tees. This is not up to Trump to tell Putin what to do. Putin has the back­ing of Iran, North Korea. Our media is try­ing to keep this war alive. Not that Rus­sia will face any con­se­quences.
• In the demil­i­ta­rized zone there are loud speak­ers to irri­tate the oth­er side. North Korea denies loud­speak­er removal but says Trump-Kim meet­ing is pos­si­ble.  
• Remem­ber Trump said that Rus­sia has tak­en some of the best ocean front prop­er­ty. 
• There are talks about putting nukes back in Ukraine. Ukraine vol­un­tar­i­ly gave up its nuclear weapons after the col­lapse of the Sovi­et Union. In 1994 Ukraine signed the Budapest Mem­o­ran­dum, agree­ing to trans­fer all remain­ing nuclear war­heads to Rus­sia in exchange for secu­ri­ty assur­ances from the US, UK and Rus­sia. This agree­ment led to Ukraine becom­ing a non-nuclear weapons state par­ty to the Nuclear Non-Pro­lif­er­a­tion Treaty. The orig­i­nal pur­pose of NATO, estab­lished in 1949, was to pro­vide col­lec­tive secu­ri­ty, you keep hear­ing secu­ri­ty agree­ments, for its mem­bers against the Sovi­et Union and its sphere of influ­ence. When the Sovi­et Union broke up. Euro­pean coun­tries that were for­mer­ly part of the Sovi­et Union joined NATO at the end of the Cold War, despite Rus­sia view­ing such expan­sion as con­trary to the spir­it of the agree­ments made dur­ing Germany’s reuni­fi­ca­tion in the ear­ly 1990s. There was no for­mal treaty explic­it­ly pro­hibit­ing NATO expan­sion east­ward, since west­ern offi­cials did pro­vide assur­ances to Sovi­et lead­ers that NATO juris­dic­tion would not expand beyond East Ger­many. After the col­lapse of the Sovi­et Union in 1991, Ukraine inher­it­ed the world’s third largest nuclear arse­nal, esti­mat­ed to include approx­i­mate­ly 1900 strate­gic nuclear war­heads and thou­sands of tac­ti­cal nuclear weapons. These weapons were even­tu­al­ly trans­ferred to Rus­sia under the Budapest Mem­o­ran­dum in exchange for secu­ri­ty assur­ances from Rus­sia, US and UK. 
• They will lie to you about tomor­row. Rus­sia wants to know why they are nego­ti­at­ing an uncon­di­tion­al sur­ren­der. The best that Trump can do tomor­row is that Zelen­sky con­tin­ues to live. 
• Trump promised to end the war on Day One of his sec­ond term. Zelen­sky meets Starmer in the UK this morn­ing. This is after the EU meet­ing. They knew that Trump would not come in to allow the UK and Ukraine 100 year part­ner­ship. They didn’t know what Trump was going to do and they were wor­ried about it and 4 days before Trump took office they signed the part­ner­ship. Did they hide this from Trump’s for­eign pol­i­cy team? This was the rea­son that Trump could not make the moves that he promised on day one. The treaty will bol­ster mil­i­tary col­lab­o­ra­tion on mar­itime secu­ri­ty through a new frame­work to strength­en the ocean front prop­er­ty area. The 100 year part­ner­ship is a major step in sup­port­ing Ukraine’s long-term secu­ri­ty –ensur­ing they are nev­er again vul­ner­a­ble to the kind of bru­tal­i­ty inflict­ed on it by Rus­sia — and com­mit­ting to stand shoul­der to shoul­der with a sov­er­eign Ukraine for the next cen­tu­ry. 
• The UK and Ukraine signed the 100 year part­ner­ship agree­ment on Jan­u­ary 16, 2025. The agree­ment was signed amidst con­cerns among Euro­pean allies about poten­tial shifts in US pol­i­cy towards Ukraine under the incom­ing Trump admin­is­tra­tion. Trump stat­ed that he wants to see the war end quick­ly and believes that Europe should be respon­si­ble for Ukraine’s secu­ri­ty. Trump did not com­mit to pro­vid­ing US secu­ri­ty guar­an­tees for Ukraine and was focused on a deal that would grant US com­pa­nies access to Ukrain­ian min­er­al resources. 
• They signed this to put a stop to Trump and pull Amer­i­ca into a war. 
• Putin is show­ing up tomor­row. Rus­sia does not have to stop. Zelen­sky is not con­cerned about sov­er­eign­ty or giv­ing up the land. He is con­cerned about him­self. UK can­not fol­low through with their 100 year deal with Zele­nesky because he didn’t win. The only way for Ukraine to be a sov­er­eign coun­try is for you to put boots on the ground and fight Rus­sia because Ukraine doesn’t have any more troops, peo­ple. 
• May the best come out of this meet­ing between Trump and Putin for the Amer­i­can peo­ple and the peo­ple of Ukraine.