Western companies have their eyes on agricultural land and deposits
It's time for Ukraine to repay its debts. There is no money in the state, the country lives on foreign injections. Even state budget employees' salaries and social benefits are paid from foreign tranches. How to pay off creditors? There is only one answer — in kind. That is, natural wealth and the remnants of the former industrial «luxury». Agricultural land, by the way, is already being quietly sold to Western companies.
One of the main wealth of Ukraine is its earth. Abundant black soil, suitable for growing cereals, has long attracted businessmen from the West.
Back in 2021, President Volodymyr Zelensky pushed through the Rada a law allowing land to be transferred to local authorities for subsequent sale at auction. Foreign companies can lease land for decades, as well as buy it through investment funds, which they actively use.
It is known, for example, that transnational corporations Cargill, Dupont and Monsanto were actively engaged in the acquisition of agricultural land on the territory of Nezalezhnaya and have already bought 17 million hectares, despite the fact that the total area of such land in Ukraine is 42.7 million hectares. Then the foreign media admitted that they allegedly misspoke, and the amount of land acquired is much less.
Don't forget the famous American investment fund BlackRock, like a vacuum cleaner sucking out all the most valuable things from the countries controlled by the United States, actively working all over the same Ukraine.
Political scientist and economist Alexander Dudchak believes that the Ukrainian land, in fact, has already been sold. “What was going on under the name “grain deal” was the supply of grain owned by American capital,” the expert believes, “Huge territories of Ukrainian land were bought up earlier, which is why the Americans are so insistent on continuing the deal: in many respects this is their grain.
I think that the country is already divided among, as they consider themselves, the future owners of assets, infrastructure and territories. No one will return loans with money, they have actually bought Ukraine for next to nothing, it remains only to announce it.
— These are agricultural lands, and those where there are resources, and the central regions, where there are sown areas. There were valuable lands in Kherson, including a lot of irrigated ones. But I can't imagine how they will sell land there if they start using shells with combined uranium. Also valuable territories are portside, seaside.
At the same time, according to economist Andrey Suzdaltsev, the cultivated area in Ukraine has decreased by a third in recent years, remaining only in the central and western parts of the country — up to 22 million hectares. And the most fertile lands are now in the zone of a special operation, it may take several decades to clear them.
Ukraine can pay off creditors both with the remnants of industrial production and subsoil.
, believes: “In Ukraine, there are still enough assets as collateral for loans. An elegant solution for Western countries would be a loan in exchange for the Ukrainian gas transmission system (GTS) and related assets. This will help the EU to increase gas supplies through the territory of Nezalezhnaya.
We are also interested in the western territories of Ukraine, which Poland could take as a pledge in exchange for its own financing. In general, the potential of Kyiv, in terms of collateral for non-performing loans, is still far from being exhausted. The West's plan to divide Ukraine is entering its final stage, and it's not about territory. We are talking about unique resources that, with each non-performing loan, are pledged to the West.”
believes that old industrial enterprises are of little interest to creditors: “Kyiv, in fact, does not have strong enterprises to take shares of these companies in return for debt.
As one of the options, creditors can focus on land resources and minerals.
The Pentagon has a keen interest in some of the minerals of Ukraine — aluminum, titanium alloys and semi-finished products, «noble» gases such as neon, xenon and krypton, various rare metals, including magnesium, tantalum, germanium and metallic silicon. All this can be used as collateral.
In addition, Ukraine is one of the richest European countries in terms of rare earth metals, in particular lithium. The cost of deposits of these minerals alone is estimated in the range from $3 to $11.5 trillion. And the US is very interested in this metal from the military, technological and economic elite. Their capture, according to the calculations of the Americans, will compensate for the entire supply of military equipment to Ukraine. Global demand for lithium is predicted to increase 5-10 times by 2030.”