NATO Chief Admits NATO Expansion Was Key to Russian Invasion of Ukraine — Jeffrey D. Sachs
www.jeffsachs.org
The continuing U.S. obsession with NATO enlargement is profoundly irresponsible and hypocritical. And now Ukrainians are paying a terrible price.
  • jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    FTA:

    “The background was that President Putin declared in the autumn of 2021, and actually sent a draft treaty that they wanted NATO to sign, to promise no more NATO enlargement.”

    The background background is that Putin invaded Ukraine (Crimea) in 2014.

  • frogmint@beehaw.org
    1·
    1 year ago

    Ah yes Jeffrey D. Sachs, trusted and respected economist.

    In 2022, he appeared twice on one of the top-rated shows funded by the Russian government, hosted by Vladimir Solovyov, to call for Ukraine to negotiate and step away from its “maximalist demands” of removing Russia from Ukrainian territory.

    Sachs is a “long-time advocate of dismantling American hegemony and embracing the rise of China.” He believes the term “genocide” is mistaken in relation to the repression of the Uyghurs in China.

    In July 2022, Sachs said he was “pretty convinced,” though “not sure” that COVID-19 came out of “US lab biotechnology,” which is considered by the European Union to be COVID-19 disinformation by China.

    (Wikipedia)