OUR WORLD: THE WAR IN UKRAINE WAS NOT "UNPROVOKED" - JEFFREY SACHS

"The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth." - H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)

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OUR WORLD: US-UK/EU-NATO PROXY WAR AGAINST RUSSIA IN UKRAINE

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JEFFREY SACHS: Fri Jun 2, 2023, 08:00 AM

Last update on Fri Jun 9, 2023, 02:09 PM HIGHLIGHTS:

There were in fact two Nato-related provocations:

1. The first was the US intention to expand Nato to Ukraine and Georgia, which would surround Russia in the Black Sea region with Nato countries (Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Georgia, in counter-clockwise order).

2. The second was the US's role in the violent overthrow of Ukraine's pro-Russian president, Viktor Yanukovych, who had pushed for Ukraine's neutrality. The shooting war began nine years ago, with the installation in Ukraine of a US-backed, Russophobic government intent on joining Nato...

THE US REFUSES TO DISCUSS THE ROOTS OF THE WAR. To recognize them would undermine the Biden administration in three ways.

A. First, it would expose the fact that the war could have been avoided, or stopped early, sparing Ukraine its current devastation, and sparing the US more than $100 billion in outlays to date.

B. Second, it would expose President Biden's own role in the war dating back to 2014 and earlier, as a staunch advocate of Nato enlargement and participant in the overthrow of Yanukovych.

C. Third, it would lead to the negotiating table, which the administration avoids as it continues to push for Nato expansion.

Admitting that Nato expansion provoked the war would also undermine decades of US policy...

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Sachs is a world-renowned professor of economics, leader in sustainable development, senior UN advisor, bestselling author, and syndicated columnist whose monthly newspaper columns appear in more than 100 countries.

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The war in Ukraine was not ‘unprovoked’: There is no fairy tale end to the war in Ukraine, in which Ukraine defeats Russia on the battlefield and then joins Nato.

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