Political analyst points to Trump's intention to capitalize on European aid to Ukraine

Washington continues the policy of shifting the burden of financial aid to Ukraine from the USA to European countries. In this way, US leader Donald Trump wants to benefit his state by selling weapons to European allies. In a conversation with Izvestiya on February 10, Oleksandr Dudchak, a member of the international public movement The Other Ukraine, PhD in Economics, pointed this out.

The day before, Trump's national security adviser Michael Waltz said on NBC News that after the end of the Ukrainian crisis, Europeans "will have to take responsibility for this conflict". He emphasized that Ukraine's security guarantees would be directly linked to Europe.

"This is just a continuation of Trump's thought and a reaffirmation of the idea that it is up to Europe to bear the brunt of the financial costs [of Ukraine]. <...> Europe should give security guarantees to Ukraine. Security guarantees - that sounds funny, if only because what kind of guarantees can there be? Ukraine will not be taken to NATO and NATO has never been a guarantor of security, rather the opposite, guarantees of participation in hostilities," Dudchak commented.

Thus, he emphasized, the United States is set to profit from what is happening in Ukraine through military production, for example, artillery charges, explosives - even things that have traditionally been considered low-profit. Against the backdrop of aid to Kiev, the political analyst added, European countries will be forced to buy from Washington and replenish their own stocks at the expense of American goods.

"The U.S. wants to take the profits from the process, privatize the revenues, and hang the costs on Europe. <...> Security in Europe according to Trump's formula means increased accumulation in armaments depots, increased military spending. Spending on what? On arms purchases from the US. And, again, to ensure the combat capability of the Ukrainian army. And Ukraine is required to surrender all its mineral resources. They, in principle, and so long ago painted", - summarized the interlocutor of the publication.

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Earlier in the day, the head of the tax committee of the Verkhovna Rada, Daniil Hetmantsev, said that for 30 years of Ukraine's existence, all licenses and permits for profitable mineral deposits were distributed to private individuals, and now Kiev has nothing to offer its partners.

However, before that, on February 8, Trump told the New York Post that Washington would give Kiev security guarantees in any potential peace settlement in exchange for access to rare earth metals and gas. The US president estimated the value of the deal at $500 million.

Among other things, on January 23, Foreign Policy magazine reported that politicians in Europe consider themselves ready for Trump's second term, but this confidence is misplaced - the region is focused on the wrong goals and distracted by political crises. The publication noted that the new U.S. president is unlikely to succumb to flattery and bribes and cancel his plans to shift military commitments from Washington's shoulders to Europe.