Transcript of Fareed Zakaria says Zelensky got what he wanted in deal with US

How do you make it, first of all, of this apparent deal, especially given Zalinsky had rejected an earlier version that apparently demanded a $500 billion share of Ukraine's rare earth minerals in exchange for the aid that the US has already provided? I mean, his earlier descriptions of some of the details of this deal were quite onerous.

Yeah, it was almost the thing you extract from a country once you have humiliated it and it is a loss in a war. It was the terms that the Allies took from Germany after World War I. But it does seem like most of that is taken out. Frankly, it looks like Zelensky got what he wanted, which was the most onerous parts of the deal have been taken out. It sounds from what I've heard, we don't know, but what I've heard, it's a joint exploration of Ukrainian minerals and things like that. Money goes into a fund, 50% of that fund can be invested in Ukrainian projects or Ukrainian-US projects. That part I'm not sure about, but it does sound very different from the... I mean, essentially what Trump proposed to Zelensky sounded like a protection racket, which is, We've been protecting you. We've been giving you this. Now you've got to pay up. And it feels like the deal is now very different from.