It's a rather lopsided deal, to be honest. America acquires shares in Ukrainian infrastructure, invests Ukrainian half of the profits into upgrading and maintaining it, and keeps the American half of the profits for itself.
Ukraine ends up with no rights to its infrastructure (it belongs to America due to the shares) and no dividends (they are invested in upgrading said American-owned infrastructure), so America gets to keep all the actual profits.
It's colonization 101, really. China is doing the same to Africa.
I read the agreement and...meh.
it institutes a fund 50/50 between US and Ukr, where the >future< revenue from exploitation of directly and indirectly controlled urk resources will go.
now, i would be curious to know what the ukr govt currently owns or controls that can generate revenue. also curious to what seed money will go into this fund to start reconstruction and resources exploitatin.
plus, is not clear what the Us govt will do with its part of the fund profits, if any.
give it back to the US taxpayer, who footed the bill of the Ukr adventure to the tune of a couple hundred billions or more? doubt it.
plus, the agreement mut be ratified by the Rada, which is only logical, and that will have to be seen.
in this case the devil is really in the detail. but even in the best of scenarios, it will be years or decades before the fund generates profits, assuming the ukros will not steal everything even before that.
i will add that if Ukr wants to enter EU, government owned economy is nogo.
as for EU, it is clear that whatever they gave and will give, they will get jack in return. how sad
