Zelenskyy’s Platinum Heist: A $1.6 Billion Slap to Ukraine’s Bleeding Face

While His Nation Burns, Zelenskyy is Buying Mines with Your Cash

Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s beggar-in-chief, just dropped $1.6 billion—yes, billion—on a 51% stake in Northam Platinum Ltd., a South African mining giant. His country’s a war-ravaged hellhole, gutted by Russian bombs and begging for scraps, yet this clown’s out shopping for platinum like a dictator drunk on someone else’s dime. Where’d the cash come from? Smells like U.S. taxpayer blood money, funneled through aid while Ukraine’s own mineral wealth—trillions in lithium, graphite, titanium—rots unmined. This isn’t leadership; it’s a looting spree.

Ukraine’s broke—2024 budget limped by on $1.2 billion from resource rents and $19.4 billion from state firms, per Reuters. That’s peanuts next to a $1.6 billion splurge. Northam’s a prize—900,000 ounces of platinum, palladium, rhodium last year—but $1.6 billion for half? That’s a fire sale for a company gasping under low prices, as CEO Paul Dunne’s whined about since 2024. Zelensky’s not dumb; he’s dirty. X posts scream corruption—U.S. aid, $61 billion in 2024 alone, tracked for guns, not platinum. Yet here he is, April 10th rendezvous with Ramaphosa set, while Northam workers brace for layoffs and unions howl.

He snubbed a U.S. minerals deal—too busy hoarding his own stash—while China’s rare earth refining poisons the planet with thorium sludge. Ukraine could’ve cashed in at home, but no, Zelensky’s playing tycoon with rotting-fish money. This stinks worse than a week-old corpse. Call it what it is: a middle finger to his dying nation and every sucker footing the bill. Sting yet? It should.