Materials to review and consider: 1) corruption in the Ukraine; and 2) Kissinger on Trump [especially international relations]

 Materials to review and consider: 

1) corruption in the Ukraine; and

 2) Kissinger on Trump [especially international relations]

 Below, for your information, are six reports on corruption involving  prominent US nationals and/or their families and the summary of a meeting with Henry Kissinger.

Items a. and b. by Peter Schweizer are  regarded as highly reliable; 

Items c. d. e. f.  contain  a great  range of materials,  many of which have been  verifed from other sources including on the  scene field investigations .  [They are forwarded as  “interesting”  but  "not fully verified” and if they are forwarded further they should be labeled as “not fully verified”];

The  Henry Kissinger remarks came from a face-to-face discussion with a reliable source but may not ,on reflection, adequately  present Henry Kissinger’s public opinion. [Therefore; the Kissinger remarks, before being forwarded, should be subject to crosschecking  with other recent public statements  made by Henry Kissinger. ]



a.     Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America's Progressive Elite  January 21, 2020 by Peter Schweizer

b.     Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends
by Peter Schweizer

c.     Corruption in Ukraine – September 1, 2016 by Oleg Bazaluk

d.     Corruption in Ukraine: view from the inside: What is really going on in Ukraine by Anna Iemelianova


e.     Ukraine: Democratization, Corruption, and the New Russian Imperialism (Praeger Security International) by Taras Kuzio

f.     Energy Dependency, Politics and Corruption in the Former Soviet Union: Russia's Power, Oligarchs' Profits and Ukraine's Missing Energy Policy, ... Series on Russian and East European Studies) by Margarita Balmaceda (

g.    Kissinger : on Trump  [Kissinger once wrote:
"The weak grow strong by effrontery – The strong grow weak through inhibition!"  No sentence better captures International relationships.]

Donald Trump is a phenomenon that foreign countries haven't seen before. He is  a  leader… doing changes like never before.

Every country now has to consider two things:

     One, their perception that the previous president, or the outgoing president, basically withdrew America from international politics, so that they had to make their own assessments of their necessities.

     And secondly, that there is a new president who's asking a lot of unfamiliar questions. 

Our allies grew complacent with Obama's passivity and now are fearful due to Trump's activism.  And they must balance the two in developing their policies. The  new assertion of power under Trump creates a new dynamic that every one of our allies and of our enemies must consider. When Trump boasts that he has a "bigger red button" than Kim Jung Un does, he  transcends the  rhetoric of the past, thereby forcing a new recognition of American power.

 Trump is  talking about issues that most Americans are concerned about. My mantra about Trump is … we are in agreement with most of what he says.  What matters is that he covers most of the things we  want.