President Donald Trump says the minerals beneath Ukraine could form the basis for a “trillion-dollar deal” to shore up vital U.S. supply chains. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says his country’s mineral wealth is “priceless.

A deal with Ukraine would give the U.S. access to the country’s mineral wealth. Cullen Hendrix reviews the data in a guest commentary.

The first month of President Trump’s administration gives some sense of what his critical mineral policy will look like over the next four years.