This is a good start:
I have seen Paul Manafort twice in my life. The first time was in 2007 during a Ukrainian lunch at Morosani Hotel in Davos, Switzerland, where Viktor Yanukovych came to speak. The second time was at a solemn reception in honor of Yanukovych’s 2010 inauguration at the Ukrainian House in Kyiv...
www.atlanticcouncil.org
It's not always cut and dry what is true and what is wrong, I'm just offering some information that is worthy of discussion, if you are willing to have an open mind to the possibility of our government officials not being as honest as they say they are.
en.wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org
Six months after leaving the White House, Jared Kushner secured a $2 billion investment from a fund led by the Saudi crown prince, a
close ally during the Trump administration, despite objections from the fund’s advisers about the merits of the deal.
A panel that screens investments for the main Saudi sovereign wealth fund cited concerns about the proposed deal with Mr. Kushner’s newly formed private equity firm, Affinity Partners, previously undisclosed documents show.
Those objections included: “the inexperience of the Affinity Fund management”; the possibility that the kingdom would be responsible for “the bulk of the investment and risk”; due diligence on the fledgling firm’s operations that found them “unsatisfactory in all aspects”; a proposed asset management fee that “seems excessive”; and “public relations risks” from Mr. Kushner’s prior role as a senior adviser to his father-in-law, former President Donald J. Trump, according to minutes of the panel’s meeting last June 30.
But days later the full board of the $620 billion Public Investment Fund — led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler and a beneficiary of Mr. Kushner’s support when he worked as a White House adviser — overruled the panel.
Ethics experts say that such a deal creates the appearance of potential payback for Mr. Kushner’s actions in the White House — or of a bid for future favor if Mr. Trump seeks and wins another presidential term in 2024.
Mr. Kushner played a leading role inside the Trump administration
defending Crown Prince Mohammed after U.S. intelligence agencies concluded that he had
approved the 2018 killing and dismemberment of Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi columnist for The Washington Post and resident of Virginia who had criticized the kingdom’s rulers.
Israeli metalworking tools continue to enter Russia's defense sector in 2024, despite sanctions, with over $10 million in imports recorded.
united24media.com
dimse.info
In 2024, metalworking tools worth more than $10 million were exported from Israel to Russia and used by companies linked to the Russian defense industry
militarnyi.com
ISCAR
The largest Israeli supplier was ISCAR, a metalworking tools manufacturer that is part of the U.S.-based multinational IMC Group (International Metalworking Companies). The company operates in Russia through three subsidiaries: Iskar LLC, Tegotek Rus LLC, and Tungaloy Rus LLC.
Despite most of these subsidiaries being inactive on paper (except for Tungaloy Rus), ISCAR supplied more than $4 million worth of tools to Russia in 2024, the report says.
And it's like you have said numerous times, we live in a uni-party state that is slowly tearing itself apart. At the end of the day it's just business, right?
