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Trump finds a face-saving way to give Ukraine 'the right to fight on'
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Ukraine agrees to put 50 percent of natural resource revenues into a U.S.-Ukrainian reconstruction fund.
In return, Ukraine gets "military equipment and the right to fight on," Trump said on Tuesday .
The deal is a pretty good one for Ukraine , which is trading something in the future for military support in the present.
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formal
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English
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short-lived
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