(OPINION) Ukraine has vast deposits of “rare earth elements” that are potentially worth enormous amounts of money.

Over half of those deposits are in areas of eastern Ukraine which have either already been captured by the Russians or will soon be captured by the Russians if the war continues.

On Monday, the Ukrainians announced that a deal in which the United States and Ukraine would share the economic rights to those deposits is in the “final stages of negotiations”.

But if Russian forces keep marching forward, the economic value of that deal to the United States will rapidly diminish.

In order to extract the wealth out of Ukraine that he is anticipating, President Trump will need to get the Russians to sign a peace agreement or he will need to stop them by force.

Unfortunately, a peace agreement is not going to happen any time soon because both sides are making extremely unrealistic demands.

The Ukrainians and our European allies are demanding that the Russians give back all the territory that they have captured, and they are insisting that Ukraine must be allowed to join NATO.

Meanwhile, the Russians are demanding that “NATO and American forces are withdrawn from eastern Europe”.

Both sides are not serious about peace, and with each passing day the Russians are capturing more extremely valuable territory in eastern Ukraine.

So if President Trump intends for the deal that he is making with Ukraine to be profitable, he will be forced to intervene.

In other words, it appears that this could be the hook in the jaw that pulls the U.S. directly into the war in Ukraine.

Decisions that are being made right now will change the course of history.

The reason why Trump is so eager to sign a deal with Ukraine is because it possesses “as much as five percent of the world’s known critical mineral reserves”…

Ukraine is home to a bountiful supply of naturally occurring rare earth minerals and other minerals considered critical for modern industries.

Among the most coveted are lithium, used to make batteries for mobile phones and laptops, and the critical nuclear energy product uranium.

Ukraine is believed to be home to as much as five percent of the world’s known critical mineral reserves.

Trump sees an opportunity for the U.S. to get much of the money that it has invested in the war back. READ MORE