If Ukraine agrees to Trump’s minerals deal, it will be a Mafia-style extortion
- Posted on February 26, 2025
- By The Independent
- 3 Views
If Ukraine agrees to Trump’s minerals deal, it will be a Mafia-style extortion
Threatened with his country’s annihilation, Volodymyr Zelensky has been forced into a protection racket – one in which Vladimir Putin supplies the muscle and, like a street-level mafia thug, the US president collects the rent, says world affairs editor Sam Kiley
