The United States National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz, has denied this Saturday that the incident between the president of the country, Donald Trump, and his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodimir Zelenski, was an “ambush”, and has revealed that after the public anger between the two, the Zelenski team “was practically crying” because a crucial agreement on the crucial agreement on the rare land was not signed.
“And let me talk about something very quickly, that this was a kind of ambush. That is absolute and categorically false,” Waltz said in an interview with the American Fox News chain.
In this sense, he said that they had everything prepared “for both leaders to sign” the agreement on rare earths that guaranteed the continuation of American assistance against Russia’s invasion in exchange for access to these resources.
“It would have economically united the United States and Ukraine during a generation for the critical minerals we need, the economic investment we need,” Waltz explained.
Likewise, the advisor has maintained that Zelenski’s team-his ambassador and his advisor-“were practically crying because this went ahead.” “But Zelenski kept arguing,” he said.
The answer that Waltz gave him, as he has reported, is that “time is not on his side in terms of the world situation”: “And what is more important, US help and tolerance of taxpayers are not unlimited.”
He has also compared Trump’s management with his predecessor, Joe Biden. “It was the wrong approach, the wrong moment in history, and definitely the wrong president to try to do this kind of thing. This is not Joe Biden. This is Donald J. Trump. And I think the whole world saw it very clear,” he said.
