During his election campaign, Donald Trump had promised that he would
put an end to the two ongoing wars. But while in the first he wears the
clothes of a real estate developer, he thinks of tackling the second as
a merchant: he is preparing for the agreement with Russia by negotiating
the exploitation of Ukrainian lands. Already at the beginning of the
war, unheard, we pointed out[1]that among the causes of the conflict it
was necessary to include the dispute between the Ukrainian and Russian
oligarchs for the marketing of land and mineral properties belonging to
the State and abandoned, in execution of the suggestions received from
British strategic advisors on the State reforms necessary to bring
Ukraine closer to the West. The British advisors, probably issued by the
Rothschild banking group that acted as surety and guarantor of Ukraine's
financial operations in the immediate pre-war phase, had demanded from
the Ukrainian government the adoption of measures to divest the land,
agricultural and mineral properties belonging to the State following
Soviet collectivization and largely not yet abandoned. Through this
path, a strong boost was given to the internal real estate market, the
sector of investments in agricultural land was opened to large capital,
especially Western, mineral resources were made available to channel
investments necessary for the modernization of plants and the
introduction of new extraction technologies, promoting at the same time
a campaign of monitoring and census of new deposits and allowing the
granting of research and prospecting licenses for new mineral resources,
the conditions were created for the financialization of the country's
economy. We reported at the time that Italy, through the Embassy and
initiatives of the Italian-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce established for
this purpose, had also proposed and worked to monitor the territories,
both agricultural and mining.
Accepting these requests, the Government had adopted the law "On
amendments to some legislative acts of Ukraine concerning the conditions
of circulation of agricultural land" of 31 March 2020 number 552 - IX
which modifies the Land Code of Ukraine (Vidomosti Verkhovnoi Rady
Ukrainy, 2002, N 3 - 4, Art. 27) which had raised many protests from
various quarters.
Medium and large Ukrainian investors, also using small farmers as a
maneuvering mass, had given rise to protests with demonstrations,
denouncing that this measure put Ukrainian properties in the hands of
foreign investors, especially agri-food. The protests were so large and
effective that they forced the Ukrainian Rada to adopt a law that
limited the possibility of purchasing to owners of Ukrainian nationality
for a transitional period, after which the possibilities of purchasing
would have become generalized, but taking care to exclude from the
possibility of investment, with various expedients, oligarchs of Russian
nationality. As is evident and obvious, this measure, desired by the
nationalist parties present in the Ukrainian Rada, has induced many of
Putin's associates to ask him to pay particular attention to the
evolution of the Ukrainian situation and to then support the need for
the "special operation", accentuating the basis of consensus in Russia
for the Kremlin's security choices. It is known that Russian oligarchs
before the war considered Ukraine one of the privileged investment areas
for their activities and seeing themselves excluded from this market has
weighed heavily on their orientation.
Biden, Trump and Ukraine
The Biden administration's approach, its support for the war in Ukraine,
was dictated above all by strategic regions related to the weakening of
Russia[2]; but from an economic and speculative point of view it
concerned the arms market for the positive repercussions that it had and
has on the American economy, since the majority of the appropriations
related to the purchase of armaments are spent in the United States.
Another area of interest was made up of more or less criminal affairs
that had Biden's son as guarantor. It will be interesting to see if the
paternal amnesty has protected him from investigations by the new
President, but it is not certain that some poisoned meatballs will allow
us to know at least some of these shady and unspeakable affairs.
In an attempt to subdue Russia, the West parried sanctions and the
United States asked OPEC to increase the quantity of oil extracted, in
order to determine a decrease in the price and thus economically hit
Russian revenues deriving from the sale of hydrocarbons and gas and
therefore reducing the resources to be allocated to the war effort,
receiving however a clear refusal, thanks to Russia's relations with the
members of the organization and within the BRICS.
As is well known, the clash on the battlefield does not reap successes
over time and when Trump takes over the deal he finds himself in the
need to reset the deal; he calls the Ukrainian almsgiver a salesman and
forces him to become the seller of his own country; he wants to be paid
for the help "granted" with privileged access to the exploitation of
Ukrainian mineral resources, focusing attention above all on the
availability of rare earths and uranium, necessary to fuel American
nuclear power plants, currently imported from Russia and, not
surprisingly, excluded from the embargo, despite the sanctions. He wants
it from Ukraine in the form of repayment of a loan that did not go
through and is ready to negotiate it with Russia, in the form of
concessions, from the new owner of the mining territories, during the
negotiation.
As can be seen from the reproduced maps, the News Agency of Ukraine and
the world (UNIAN), citing Forbes' estimate for 2023, claims that the
total value of mineral resources in Ukraine has reached 15 trillion
dollars. However, it also does not forget to point out that more than
70% of this volume is located on the territory of the Donetsk and
Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR), as well as in the
Dnepropetrovsk region, which is approaching the front line. The news
coming from the front sees a retreat of the Ukrainians towards the west,
an increase in the territory occupied by the Russians in the Kharkiv
oblast and Russian troops crossing the border of the Dnepropetrovsk
oblast, intending to occupy at least the part of the oblast east of the
Dnpro river and, with an enveloping maneuver, that part of the
Zaporizzja oblast still under Ukrainian control that would be attacked
from three fronts with the river behind it. Trump knows this well, so
much so that already in the early stages of the negotiations it seems
that the parties have recognized that the Dnipro represents the natural
coexistence of the future Ukraine. It should be remembered that already
in the 2014 elections the set of these oblasts had spoken out against
the central power of Kiev and that these are territories with a
population that, if we exclude the three large cities, is very small,
also due to the exodus from the country caused by the war. This is why
Ukraine risks showing up at the peace negotiating table with an empty
pot, given that Trump seems to have decided to do without Zelensky's
presence at the negotiating table, also because Putin doesn't like him.
Such an orientation of the negotiations would penalize Great Britain
enormously, which would find itself with crumbs of the loot (on the
other hand Trump cordially hates Starmer and does not hide it) and would
certainly hit the interests of the European Union even more, which not
only had to suffer the destruction of the Nord Stream Two, but is
deprived of Russian oil and will have to shoulder the cost of rebuilding
Ukraine (estimated at 500 million dollars), deprived of its resources,
with a polluted and devastated territory, with a destroyed economy, with
a collapsed population (-25%) and a massacred social structure, with
fascistized institutions, incompatible with what remains of the
community aequis even more after the devastation caused by the war.
A major additional problem will be the management of what will remain of
the Ukrainian army, that is, of a mass of self-styled praetorians who,
even if demobilized and defeated, consider themselves and in part are,
the military elite of the West, ready to transform themselves into
soldiers of fortune who offer themselves as a chosen body, dedicated to
security, a candidate to take the place of the European army that should
defend the continent from unlikely external aggressions, but which in
reality would play the role of an internal body to support the
authoritarian turn of governments increasingly oriented to the right on
the continent, ready to move from the liberal ordo to the neocurtense
economy and to a new feudalism.
It will happen paradoxically that through peace Europe prepares its
definitive ruin, inoculating into its body the virus of warmongering and
nationalist authoritarianism, launching security policies that will
support governments and regimes on the Hungarian model or, if you
prefer, Melonian, democracies inspired by the Trumpian turn.
Unless...
There is still a possibility, however: that the Ukrainian army, pressed
by the Russian one, bled dry by defeats on the field, desertions,
internal uprisings, collapses and that the country is forced to seek
peace without conditions anyway. This hypothesis is made possible by the
fact that war propaganda, both from the Ukrainian and Western state,
does not allow us to know the real condition of the country, the
prevalence of common feeling; however, we can have even less faith in
what Russian propaganda says: we only know that at a collective level
the demand for peace is growing.
We know that among the Ukrainian displaced in the West and those who
have left the country for Russia, a significant part of its population
has opted out of the conflict. We can quantify this part of the
population at about a quarter of the pre-war population of the entire
country.
We also know that the country is suffering the weight of martial law and
therefore cannot express itself politically.
We have news of the constant growth in desertions, estimated at between
80,000 and 100,000 men since the beginning of the war. We know of the
deep discomfort of the Ukrainian populations of some regions, in
particular those inhabited by the Romanian minority and the Magyar
minority on the western borders of the country; we have news of
resistance actions against the government in the central regions of the
country, while intolerance towards the nationalist components is growing
almost everywhere.
Also completely underestimated but destabilizing is the ongoing conflict
in the religious field that sees the pro-government and schismatic
autocephalous Orthodox Church opposing the canonical Orthodox Church,
linked to the Patriarchate of Moscow.
We know of the persecutions, the harassment, the occupation of churches,
the kidnapping of clergymen, and even more we have news of the
expropriation of assets to the detriment of the canonical Orthodox
Church and all this leads us to think that an internal war is underway,
made up of thousands of small conflicts that pervade the entire country.
In these conditions, one wonders when the internal front can hold up,
burdened by continuous bombings and devastation, with growing
corruption, afflicted by the call to arms of eighteen-year-olds,
devastated for generations, called to sacrifice itself in a proxy war
that is being waged against the interests of the Ukrainian people.
These are the reasons that lead us to hope that more than international
peace negotiations, it is the forces of the people that will put an end
to the conflict and ask for peace against the interests of the oligarchs
on both sides of Zelensky and Putin, in the face of two regimes that
have more points and characteristics that unite them, rather than
elements that divide them, both dictatorial, rising up. The only way
that the Ukrainians have to save the country.
[1]G. L., Putin and Zelensky for us equals are, Newsletter Crescita
Politica, n. 184, 2024; The collapse of the internal front in Ukraine,
Newsletter Crescita Politica, n. 180, 2023; Two considerations on
Ukraine, Newsletter Crescita Politica, n. 176, 2023; The damage of the
Ukrainian war, Newsletter Crescita Politica, n. 170, 2023; The Economic
Causes of the Ukrainian War, Newsletter Crescita Politica, n. 160, 2023;
War in Ukraine: the British Track, Newsletter Crescita Politica, n. 158,
2022; Zelesky's Ukraine before Putin, Newsletter Crescita Politica, n.
158, 2022; The Beggar and the Dictator, Newsletter Crescita Politica,
n.183, 2024; Parallel Wars, Newsletter Crescita Politica, n. 190, 2024.
[2]See the thought and political program of Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy
Carter's national security advisor from 1977 to 1961. Lastly: G.
PERONCINI, The Brzezinski Doctrine and the (True) Origins of the
Russian-Ukrainian War, ByoBlu Edizioni, Milan, 2022.
Gianni Cimbalo
https://www.ucadi.org/2025/03/02/trump-il-commerciante/
_________________________________________
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put an end to the two ongoing wars. But while in the first he wears the
clothes of a real estate developer, he thinks of tackling the second as
a merchant: he is preparing for the agreement with Russia by negotiating
the exploitation of Ukrainian lands. Already at the beginning of the
war, unheard, we pointed out[1]that among the causes of the conflict it
was necessary to include the dispute between the Ukrainian and Russian
oligarchs for the marketing of land and mineral properties belonging to
the State and abandoned, in execution of the suggestions received from
British strategic advisors on the State reforms necessary to bring
Ukraine closer to the West. The British advisors, probably issued by the
Rothschild banking group that acted as surety and guarantor of Ukraine's
financial operations in the immediate pre-war phase, had demanded from
the Ukrainian government the adoption of measures to divest the land,
agricultural and mineral properties belonging to the State following
Soviet collectivization and largely not yet abandoned. Through this
path, a strong boost was given to the internal real estate market, the
sector of investments in agricultural land was opened to large capital,
especially Western, mineral resources were made available to channel
investments necessary for the modernization of plants and the
introduction of new extraction technologies, promoting at the same time
a campaign of monitoring and census of new deposits and allowing the
granting of research and prospecting licenses for new mineral resources,
the conditions were created for the financialization of the country's
economy. We reported at the time that Italy, through the Embassy and
initiatives of the Italian-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce established for
this purpose, had also proposed and worked to monitor the territories,
both agricultural and mining.
Accepting these requests, the Government had adopted the law "On
amendments to some legislative acts of Ukraine concerning the conditions
of circulation of agricultural land" of 31 March 2020 number 552 - IX
which modifies the Land Code of Ukraine (Vidomosti Verkhovnoi Rady
Ukrainy, 2002, N 3 - 4, Art. 27) which had raised many protests from
various quarters.
Medium and large Ukrainian investors, also using small farmers as a
maneuvering mass, had given rise to protests with demonstrations,
denouncing that this measure put Ukrainian properties in the hands of
foreign investors, especially agri-food. The protests were so large and
effective that they forced the Ukrainian Rada to adopt a law that
limited the possibility of purchasing to owners of Ukrainian nationality
for a transitional period, after which the possibilities of purchasing
would have become generalized, but taking care to exclude from the
possibility of investment, with various expedients, oligarchs of Russian
nationality. As is evident and obvious, this measure, desired by the
nationalist parties present in the Ukrainian Rada, has induced many of
Putin's associates to ask him to pay particular attention to the
evolution of the Ukrainian situation and to then support the need for
the "special operation", accentuating the basis of consensus in Russia
for the Kremlin's security choices. It is known that Russian oligarchs
before the war considered Ukraine one of the privileged investment areas
for their activities and seeing themselves excluded from this market has
weighed heavily on their orientation.
Biden, Trump and Ukraine
The Biden administration's approach, its support for the war in Ukraine,
was dictated above all by strategic regions related to the weakening of
Russia[2]; but from an economic and speculative point of view it
concerned the arms market for the positive repercussions that it had and
has on the American economy, since the majority of the appropriations
related to the purchase of armaments are spent in the United States.
Another area of interest was made up of more or less criminal affairs
that had Biden's son as guarantor. It will be interesting to see if the
paternal amnesty has protected him from investigations by the new
President, but it is not certain that some poisoned meatballs will allow
us to know at least some of these shady and unspeakable affairs.
In an attempt to subdue Russia, the West parried sanctions and the
United States asked OPEC to increase the quantity of oil extracted, in
order to determine a decrease in the price and thus economically hit
Russian revenues deriving from the sale of hydrocarbons and gas and
therefore reducing the resources to be allocated to the war effort,
receiving however a clear refusal, thanks to Russia's relations with the
members of the organization and within the BRICS.
As is well known, the clash on the battlefield does not reap successes
over time and when Trump takes over the deal he finds himself in the
need to reset the deal; he calls the Ukrainian almsgiver a salesman and
forces him to become the seller of his own country; he wants to be paid
for the help "granted" with privileged access to the exploitation of
Ukrainian mineral resources, focusing attention above all on the
availability of rare earths and uranium, necessary to fuel American
nuclear power plants, currently imported from Russia and, not
surprisingly, excluded from the embargo, despite the sanctions. He wants
it from Ukraine in the form of repayment of a loan that did not go
through and is ready to negotiate it with Russia, in the form of
concessions, from the new owner of the mining territories, during the
negotiation.
As can be seen from the reproduced maps, the News Agency of Ukraine and
the world (UNIAN), citing Forbes' estimate for 2023, claims that the
total value of mineral resources in Ukraine has reached 15 trillion
dollars. However, it also does not forget to point out that more than
70% of this volume is located on the territory of the Donetsk and
Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR), as well as in the
Dnepropetrovsk region, which is approaching the front line. The news
coming from the front sees a retreat of the Ukrainians towards the west,
an increase in the territory occupied by the Russians in the Kharkiv
oblast and Russian troops crossing the border of the Dnepropetrovsk
oblast, intending to occupy at least the part of the oblast east of the
Dnpro river and, with an enveloping maneuver, that part of the
Zaporizzja oblast still under Ukrainian control that would be attacked
from three fronts with the river behind it. Trump knows this well, so
much so that already in the early stages of the negotiations it seems
that the parties have recognized that the Dnipro represents the natural
coexistence of the future Ukraine. It should be remembered that already
in the 2014 elections the set of these oblasts had spoken out against
the central power of Kiev and that these are territories with a
population that, if we exclude the three large cities, is very small,
also due to the exodus from the country caused by the war. This is why
Ukraine risks showing up at the peace negotiating table with an empty
pot, given that Trump seems to have decided to do without Zelensky's
presence at the negotiating table, also because Putin doesn't like him.
Such an orientation of the negotiations would penalize Great Britain
enormously, which would find itself with crumbs of the loot (on the
other hand Trump cordially hates Starmer and does not hide it) and would
certainly hit the interests of the European Union even more, which not
only had to suffer the destruction of the Nord Stream Two, but is
deprived of Russian oil and will have to shoulder the cost of rebuilding
Ukraine (estimated at 500 million dollars), deprived of its resources,
with a polluted and devastated territory, with a destroyed economy, with
a collapsed population (-25%) and a massacred social structure, with
fascistized institutions, incompatible with what remains of the
community aequis even more after the devastation caused by the war.
A major additional problem will be the management of what will remain of
the Ukrainian army, that is, of a mass of self-styled praetorians who,
even if demobilized and defeated, consider themselves and in part are,
the military elite of the West, ready to transform themselves into
soldiers of fortune who offer themselves as a chosen body, dedicated to
security, a candidate to take the place of the European army that should
defend the continent from unlikely external aggressions, but which in
reality would play the role of an internal body to support the
authoritarian turn of governments increasingly oriented to the right on
the continent, ready to move from the liberal ordo to the neocurtense
economy and to a new feudalism.
It will happen paradoxically that through peace Europe prepares its
definitive ruin, inoculating into its body the virus of warmongering and
nationalist authoritarianism, launching security policies that will
support governments and regimes on the Hungarian model or, if you
prefer, Melonian, democracies inspired by the Trumpian turn.
Unless...
There is still a possibility, however: that the Ukrainian army, pressed
by the Russian one, bled dry by defeats on the field, desertions,
internal uprisings, collapses and that the country is forced to seek
peace without conditions anyway. This hypothesis is made possible by the
fact that war propaganda, both from the Ukrainian and Western state,
does not allow us to know the real condition of the country, the
prevalence of common feeling; however, we can have even less faith in
what Russian propaganda says: we only know that at a collective level
the demand for peace is growing.
We know that among the Ukrainian displaced in the West and those who
have left the country for Russia, a significant part of its population
has opted out of the conflict. We can quantify this part of the
population at about a quarter of the pre-war population of the entire
country.
We also know that the country is suffering the weight of martial law and
therefore cannot express itself politically.
We have news of the constant growth in desertions, estimated at between
80,000 and 100,000 men since the beginning of the war. We know of the
deep discomfort of the Ukrainian populations of some regions, in
particular those inhabited by the Romanian minority and the Magyar
minority on the western borders of the country; we have news of
resistance actions against the government in the central regions of the
country, while intolerance towards the nationalist components is growing
almost everywhere.
Also completely underestimated but destabilizing is the ongoing conflict
in the religious field that sees the pro-government and schismatic
autocephalous Orthodox Church opposing the canonical Orthodox Church,
linked to the Patriarchate of Moscow.
We know of the persecutions, the harassment, the occupation of churches,
the kidnapping of clergymen, and even more we have news of the
expropriation of assets to the detriment of the canonical Orthodox
Church and all this leads us to think that an internal war is underway,
made up of thousands of small conflicts that pervade the entire country.
In these conditions, one wonders when the internal front can hold up,
burdened by continuous bombings and devastation, with growing
corruption, afflicted by the call to arms of eighteen-year-olds,
devastated for generations, called to sacrifice itself in a proxy war
that is being waged against the interests of the Ukrainian people.
These are the reasons that lead us to hope that more than international
peace negotiations, it is the forces of the people that will put an end
to the conflict and ask for peace against the interests of the oligarchs
on both sides of Zelensky and Putin, in the face of two regimes that
have more points and characteristics that unite them, rather than
elements that divide them, both dictatorial, rising up. The only way
that the Ukrainians have to save the country.
[1]G. L., Putin and Zelensky for us equals are, Newsletter Crescita
Politica, n. 184, 2024; The collapse of the internal front in Ukraine,
Newsletter Crescita Politica, n. 180, 2023; Two considerations on
Ukraine, Newsletter Crescita Politica, n. 176, 2023; The damage of the
Ukrainian war, Newsletter Crescita Politica, n. 170, 2023; The Economic
Causes of the Ukrainian War, Newsletter Crescita Politica, n. 160, 2023;
War in Ukraine: the British Track, Newsletter Crescita Politica, n. 158,
2022; Zelesky's Ukraine before Putin, Newsletter Crescita Politica, n.
158, 2022; The Beggar and the Dictator, Newsletter Crescita Politica,
n.183, 2024; Parallel Wars, Newsletter Crescita Politica, n. 190, 2024.
[2]See the thought and political program of Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy
Carter's national security advisor from 1977 to 1961. Lastly: G.
PERONCINI, The Brzezinski Doctrine and the (True) Origins of the
Russian-Ukrainian War, ByoBlu Edizioni, Milan, 2022.
Gianni Cimbalo
https://www.ucadi.org/2025/03/02/trump-il-commerciante/
_________________________________________
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