The Trump administration has waived part of the punishment for five megabanks whose affiliates were convicted and fined for manipulating global interest rates. One of the Trump administration waivers was granted to Deutsche Bank — which is owed at least $130 million by President Donald Trump and his business empire, and has also been fined for its role in a Russian money laundering scheme.
The waivers were issued in a little-noticed announcement published in the Federal Register during the Christmas holiday week. They come less than two years after then-candidate Trump promised “I'm not going to let Wall Street get away with murder.”
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 11 2018, @10:13PM
You're in need of a crash course on geopolitics that a comment section can't really provide. The US (primarily) pushed for Ukrainian nuclear disarmament under the Budapest Memorandum to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in 1994. One of the provisions of that agreement was that UN security council was to provide aid in the event that Ukraine's borders were threatened.
The US was diplomatically obligated to come to Ukraine's aid as soon as Russia started violating their sovereignty. Between all the confusion at the time and fear of Russia, we didn't. This avoided conflict in the short-term, but it's having a variety of ripple effects on our treaties and foreign relations that are all extremely troubling. The situation is startlingly reminiscent of various appeasement policies at the beginning of WWII.