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28 Aug 2023
Some personal news: I am so excited to announce that today is my first day at @DFCgov. The U.S. International Development Corporation is a relatively new federal agency that invests in developing and middle-developing countries in line with U.S. foreign policy.
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Paul D. Shinkman retweeted
17 Sep 2025
The US-Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund has begun its operational work with its first contribution.
The US Development Finance Corporation @DFCgov has made a pilot commitment of $75 million, which Ukraine will match. This joint step launches the Fund’s practical activity, with initial focus on projects in energy, infrastructure, and critical minerals. Until the end on 2026, we plan to implement three large-scale projects.
The Fund is built on the principle of equality. Ukraine assumes the same financial obligations as the American side, underlining both our responsibility and our vision of the Fund as a genuine instrument of shared recovery and long-term cooperation.
This decision opens the way to financing modern industries, creating new jobs, and advancing technological solutions that strengthen Ukraine’s economy and security. The start-up capital also carries broader meaning: American investment in Ukraine becomes a guarantee of security for both Ukraine and American business operating here.
I thank our American partners for their trust. Together, we are turning solidarity into real projects that will shape the future.
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12 Dec 2024
“Ukraine, in an active war, would not have been a natural fit” for the U.S. agencies that preceded @DFCgov, @AmbPower44 said, but its creation “has expanded the U.S. toolkit.”
I deeply enjoyed learning more about our young agency’s history this week. I think you will, too:
12 Dec 2024
Catch up on the key takeaways and powerful moments from our 5 Year Anniversary Conference in our latest blog. #DFC5Years dfcgov.medium.com/the-tip-of…
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Paul D. Shinkman retweeted
9 Dec 2024
"DFC is a bipartisan priority. It was created under the Trump Administration. It has been strengthened under the Biden Administration. And as we look toward DFC’s reauthorization next year, it has to remain a bipartisan priority." - @JakeSullivan46 #DFC5Years
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Paul D. Shinkman retweeted
17 Apr 2024
50,000 confirmed and verified Russian fatalities in Ukraine is more than Russia/Soviet Union lost in all post-1945 wars combined.
Moreover, as the investigators admit, their count covers nearly 50% of the real military death toll, which, therefore, may be over 100,000 dead (!).
Upon that, some 23,400 forcibly mobilized men from occupied Donbas were also killed.
This war is the most terrible meat grinder Europe has seen since World War II.
In all, over 120,000 have been killed on the Russian side as of now since the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
I got just one question here: WHAT THE FLYING FUCK DID THEY ALL DIE FOR?!
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17 Apr 2024
Some stunning statistics in here about Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine:
Half of all 🇺🇦hospitals in the conflict zones have been completely destroyed. 1,700 country-wide are damaged.
3.9M suffer from PTSD and other trauma.
But we’re helping to do something about it:
17 Apr 2024
Amid the devastation of Russia’s invasion, @superhumans_com is a beacon of hope.
Backed by $25M in DFC political risk insurance, the non-profit is providing innovative care & rebuilding lives across Ukraine. Learn more about this groundbreaking work: dfc.gov/investment-story/res…
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16 Apr 2024
“‘Shaheds’ in the skies above Ukraine sound identical to those over the Middle East. The impact of ballistic missiles, if they are not intercepted, is the same everywhere.”
The entire world witnessed allied action in the skies above Israel and neighboring countries. It demonstrated how truly effective unity in defending against terror can be when it is based on sufficient political will.
Israel, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Jordan acted together and with maximum efficiency.
Together, they prevented terror from prevailing. And they are working together, and in coordination with others, to prevent further escalation.
Israel is not a NATO member, so no action, such as triggering Article 5, was required. And no one was dragged into the war. They simply contributed to the protection of human life.
"Shaheds" in the skies above Ukraine sound identical to those over the Middle East. The impact of ballistic missiles, if they are not intercepted, is the same everywhere.
European skies could have received the same level of protection long ago if Ukraine had received similar full support from its partners in intercepting drones and missiles. Terror must be defeated completely and everywhere, not more in some places and less in others.
I thank everyone in the world, every leader and state, who truly assists us with air defense and missiles necessary to protect our skies, as well as training our pilots on F-16s. All of this already works and will continue to work to save lives.
However, we can now see how unity can work truly a hundred percent, and how almost a hundred percent of “Shaheds” and missiles can be intercepted. We will discuss it with our partners.
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Paul D. Shinkman retweeted
29 Sep 2023
Gen. Milley warning about Trump, without using his name: "We don't take an oath to a king, or queen, or a tyrant or a dictator. And we don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator"
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Paul D. Shinkman retweeted
28 Sep 2023
General Mark Milley, the 20th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, receives a clap out as he left the Pentagon today for the last time. He retires tomorrow. Gen CQ Brown will begin work at midnight Sunday.
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Paul D. Shinkman retweeted
23 Sep 2023
Soldiers of the 112th Territorial Defense Brigade and French photographer Émeric Lhuisset recreated the painting "Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks" by Ukrainian artist Illia Repin.
📸📷 - emericlhuisset / Instagram
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Paul D. Shinkman retweeted
10 Sep 2023
Today in Hanoi, CEO Nathan signed a commitment for $300 million in DFC financing for VPBank to on-lend to women-owned and -operated and climate-focused small businesses in Vietnam, witnessed by @ClimateEnvoy @MarcKnapper.
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Paul D. Shinkman retweeted
6 Sep 2023
"When I was a student, my best hangover food was actually to go to @McDonalds ... I would go to McDonalds and buy double cheeseburger, big Coke, and that would be my hangover breakfast"
-- Ukraine foreign affairs minister @DmytroKuleba
@SecBlinken - "That never happened to me"
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Paul D. Shinkman retweeted
6 Sep 2023
Hi from Jakarta at the ASEAN Summit with Vice President Harris. So, Indonesian security tried to physically eject VOA reporter @pwidakuswara because she shouted a question at Harris & the Indonesian president in their bilat… 1/2
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1 Sep 2023
“Some Westerners may feel they have the luxury of signing away Ukrainian lands along with its people and freedom. Ukrainians do not.”
31 Aug 2023
"Where is the call for Ukraine to negotiate coming from?It comes from those focused on a desire to stabilize relations with Russia, no matter what. That denigrates the Ukrainian people and the freedom they are fighting for."
Ukraine’s Valley Forge Moment cepa.org/article/ukraines-va…
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Paul D. Shinkman retweeted
31 Aug 2023
Everyone is now an expert on how we should fight. A gentle reminder that no one understands this war better than we do.
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28 Aug 2023
Some personal news: I am so excited to announce that today is my first day at @DFCgov. The U.S. International Development Corporation is a relatively new federal agency that invests in developing and middle-developing countries in line with U.S. foreign policy.
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28 Aug 2023
I'll be a speechwriter for the executive team and a writer/editor for the Office of External Affairs.
Lots more to come. Watch this space.
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Paul D. Shinkman retweeted
17 Aug 2023
Scoop: the US intel community assesses that Ukraine’s counteroffensive will fail to reach Melitopol, a finding that would mean Kyiv won’t fulfill its key objective of severing Russia’s land bridge to Crimea in this year’s push washingtonpost.com/national-…
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Paul D. Shinkman retweeted
17 Aug 2023
Pardon me? Not so fast (or easy), our Lauren Camera @laurenonthehill reports:
usnews.com/news/national-new…
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Paul D. Shinkman retweeted
17 Aug 2023
Charging through dense Russian minefields under artillery fire - with no air support and little front line air defense - was never going to be easy, or quick.
17 Aug 2023
Congressional Ukraine Caucus co-chair on the counteroffensive: “I’ll be blunt, it’s failed.”
And he was blunt, too, about the prospects for a victory ahead: “I’m not sure it’s winnable anymore.” politico.com/newsletters/hud…
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