Jeffrey Sachs - How the US Provoked the Invasion of Ukraine

Good 10 minute video if you have the time.

Nov 20, 2024

Surprised he didn’t mention the May 2, 2014 Odessa Trade Union Massacre

Transcript:

let me just explain in two minutes the
Ukraine war this is not an attack by
Putin on Ukraine in the way that we are
told every day this started in
1990 February 9th
1990 James Baker iiii our secretary of
state said to Mel gorbachov NATO will
not move one inch Eastward if you agreed
to German
unification basically ending World War
II and uh gorbachov said that’s very
important yes NATO doesn’t move and we
agreed to German
unification the us then cheated on this
already starting in
1994 when Clinton signed off on a
basically a plan to expand NATO all the
way to Ukraine
this is when the so-called neocons took
power and uh Clinton was the first agent
of this and the expansion of NATO
started in 1999 with Poland Hungary and
Czech Republic at that point Russia
didn’t much care there was no border
other than with the Kingsburg but other
than that there was no direct threat
then uh the US uh led the bombing of
Serbia in 1999
that was bad by the way uh because that
was a use of NATO to bomb a European
Capital Belgrade 78 straight days to
break the country apart the Russians
didn’t like that very much but Putin
became president they swallowed it they
complained but uh even Putin started out
Pro European pro-american actually asked
maybe we should join NATO uh when there
was still the idea of some kind of
mutually respectful
relationship then 911 came then came uh
Afghanistan and the Russians said yeah
we’ll support you we understand to root
out Terror but then came two other
decisive actions in 2002 the United
States unilaterally walked out of the
anti-ballistic missile treaty this was
probably the most decisive event never
discussed in this context but what it
did was trigger the US putting in
missile systems in Eastern Europe that
Russia views as a dire direct threat to
National Security by making possible a
decapitation strike of missiles that are
a few minutes away from Moscow and we
put in two agis missile systems we say
it’s defense Russia says how do we know
it’s not Tomahawk nuclear tip missiles
in your silos you’ve told us we have
nothing to do with this and so we walked
out of the ABM Treaty unilaterally in
2002 and then in 2003 we invaded Iraq on
completely phony pretenses as I’ve
explained in 200 uh 4 five we engaged in
a soft regime change operation in
Ukraine uh the so-called first color
Revolution it put in office somebody
that I knew knew and was I was friends
with and I’m kind of distantly friends
with the president yusenko uh because I
was an advisor to the Ukrainian
government in 1993 94
95 and then the US had its dirty hands
in this it should not meddle in other
Count’s elections but in 2009 yanukovich
won the election and he became president
and in 2010 on the basis of neutrality
for you
Ukraine that calmed things down because
the US was pushing NATO but the people
of Ukraine on the opinion polls didn’t
even want to be a NATO they knew that
the country is divided between ethnic
ukraini and ethnic Russian what do we
want with this we want to stay away from
your problems so in February
22nd 2014 the United States participated
actively in the overthrow of
yanukovich a typical us regime regime
change operation have no doubt about it
and the Russians did us a favor they
intercepted a really ugly call between
Victoria nuland my colleague at Columbia
University now uh and if you know her
name and what she’s done have sympathy
for me um really
uh between her and uh the US ambassador
to Ukraine Jeffrey Pat who’s a senior
State Department official till today and
they talked about regime change they
said who’s going to be the next
government ah why don’t we pick this one
no Klitschko shouldn’t go in it should
be yatsenuk ah yes it was yatsenuk and
we’ll get we’ll get the big guy Biden to
come in and do an attaboy they say you
know Pat him on the back it’s great so
they made the new government and I
happen to be invited to go there soon
after that not knowing any of the
background and then some of it was in a
very ugly way explained to me after I
arrived how the US had participated in
this all of this is to say the us then
said okay now NATO is really going to
enlarge and Putin kept saying stop you
promis no NATO enlargement it’s been by
the way I forgot to mention in
2004 Estonia lvia Lithuania Bulgaria
Romania SLO Slovakia Slovenia
seven more countries in the not one inch
Eastward and then okay it’s a long story
but the US kept rejecting the basic idea
don’t expand NATO to Russia’s Border in
a context where we’re putting in goddamn
missile
systems after breaking a treaty 2019 we
walked out of the intermediate nuclear
Force
treaty in 2017 we walked out of the
jcpoa the treaty with Iran this is the
partner this is the trust building in
other words it’s completely Reckless US
foreign policy on December 15 2021 Putin
put on the table a draft Russia US
security
agreement you can find it online the
basis of it is no NATO
enlargement I called the White House
that next week after
that begging them take the negotiations
Putin’s offered something avoid this war
oh Jeff there’s not going to be a
war announc that NATO’s not going to
enlarge oh don’t worry NATO’s not going
to enlarge I said oh you’re going to
have a war over something that’s not
going to happen why why don’t you
announce them he said no no our policy
is an open door this is Jake Sullivan
our policy is an Open Door Policy open
door for NATO
enlargement that is under the category
of by the way you don’t have
your right to put your military bases
anywhere you want and expect peace in
this world you have to have some
Prudence there’s no such thing as an
open door that we’re going to be there
and we’re going to put our missile
systems there and that’s our right
there’s no right to that we declared in
1823 Europeans don’t come to the Western
Hemisphere that’s the Monroe Doctrine
the whole Western Hemisphere after
all okay anyway they turned down the
negotiations then the special military
operation started and five days later
zalinsky says okay okay
neutrality and then the Turks said well
will mediate this and I flew to Anora to
discuss it with the Turkish negotiators
cuz I wanted to hear exactly what was
going on so what was going on was they
reached an agreement with a few odds and
ends and then the United States and
Britain said no way you guys fight on we
got your back we don’t have your front
you’re all going to die but we got your
back
as we kept pushing them into the front
lines that’s 600,000 deaths now of
ukrainians since Boris Johnson flew to
keev to tell them to be
brave absolutely
ghastly
so when you think about your question we
have to understand we’re not dealing
with as we’re told every day with this
mad man like Hitler coming at us and
violating this and violating that and
he’s going to take over Europe This is
complete bogus fake history that is a
purely PR Narrative of the US
government and it doesn’t stand up at
all to anyone that knows anything and if
you try to say a word of this I got
completely cut out of the New York Times
back in 2022 after writing my whole life
columns for them oh I send this okay and
by the way online it’s not even space
you know there’s no limit they can
publish 700 words they would not publish
since then 700 words for me about what I
saw with my own eyes about what this war
is about they won’t do it we’re playing
games here so God forbid a nuclear power
comes at us I don’t know what’s going to
happen but we came at them

You think Putin is the bad guy? There are no clean hands. The US does not have the moral high ground. Read about the 2014 Odessa Massacre if you want to understand the evil monsters the US taxpayers are sending $Billions of dollars to. Ukraine is run by satanic demons.

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