He had served on the board of Amtrak, the train his father famously rode to work every day, became senior vice president of MBNA, a bank that was a top contributor to Joe Biden’s Senate campaigns, and was appointed to the board of the National Democratic Institute, which pushed for regime change in Ukraine before the Maidan Square protests.
In December 2015, when Vice President Biden again visited Ukraine, he gave an ultimatumto now-President Poroshenko and Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk that they fire Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin, who had six active criminal cases against Burisma.
If they did not fire Shokin whom Biden claimed was corrupt Biden said that the U.S. would not provide Ukraine with a $1 billion loan.
Master diplomat George Shultz, and his interworking with Soviet and Jewish affairs
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Master diplomat George Shultz, and his interworking with Soviet and Jewish affairs
World Jewish Congress president Ronald S. Lauder once asked the longtime U.S. statesman, who passed away at the age of 100 on Feb. 6, why he stood up for American and Israeli Jews when he was often pressured not to. He responded: “Because I thought you were right.”
(February 16, 2021 / JNS) The long-term secretary of state, George Shultz, who died on Feb. 6 at the age of 100, will be remembered most for his negotiations on the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in 1987 and the end of the Cold War. But more than that, Shultz told his biographer that he wanted to be remembered for securing the release of Soviet refuseniks, who for decades were denied the ability to immigrate to the State of Israel.
US, Russia Could Reduce Strategic Arsenals by 1/3 in Future Deal, Ex-Official Believes
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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The United States and Russia could reduce their strategic arsenals by one-third and limit their hypersonic weapons as part of a future arms control deal, Howard Stoffer, a former US State Department senior foreign service officer and former UN director of counterterrorism, told Sputnik.
On February 3, the United States and Russia extended for five years the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), which limits each country to 700 missiles, 1,550 warheads, and 800 launchers. It is the last remaining agreement that limits US and Russian nuclear arsenals.
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