The world-renowned American professor exposes the truth behind the outbreak of the Russo-Ukrainian war

Jeffrey Sachs, the world-renowned professor, detailed in Tucker Carlson’s show how the United States provoked Russia to attack Ukraine.

“It is not true that Vladimir Putin attacked Ukraine in 2022 without being provoked by anyone,” said Jeffrey Sachs, world-famous economist and foreign policy expert, professor at Columbia University, on Tucker Carlson’s show. He emphasized:

The United States and NATO have been provoking Russia for decades by continuously expanding eastward, despite the alliance’s promise from the 1990s. Putin’s reaction is crossing the red line that Ukraine’s NATO accession would represent.

Jeffrey Sachs detailed how U.S. foreign policy led to Putin eventually attacking Ukraine. He recalled that in 1990, NATO promised not to expand. Nevertheless, detailed plans emerged as early as 1997, aiming to expand the military alliance – and consequently Washington’s influence – in Europe and Eurasia. The inclusion of Ukraine and Georgia into the Western alliance system was considered essential for this goal.

An important milestone in this plan was in 1998 when Eastern European countries – including Hungary – joined NATO, and in 2000, the Baltic countries also entered the military alliance. According to the professor, these steps were all provocative moves as NATO came closer to Russia’s borders. The USA continued to expand its influence by unilaterally withdrawing from the ballistic missile treaty considered a guarantor of peace with Russia in 2002. Subsequently, missiles were deployed in Poland and Romania, and later NATO bases were built in most Eastern European countries. The bombing of Belgrade in 1998 also fit into this sequence, with the real goal being for the United States to establish a foothold in Southeast Europe.

Putin has long stated: Ukraine is a red line

In 2007, at the Munich Security Conference, the Russian president called on leaders of the United States and Europe to uphold their commitment not to expand NATO to the east in 1990. This was a guarantee of Russia’s security. Meanwhile, Europe increasingly cooperated closely with Moscow in various areas, which was clearly not in Washington’s interest, where the conviction persists that

the United States is the world’s sole superpower and can do whatever it pleases

– Jeffrey Sachs pointed out. He reminded that at the Bucharest summit in 2008, European leaders convinced Americans that expanding NATO to Russia’s borders was unnecessary and dangerous.

The war did not start in 2022

Initially, Ukraine did not want to become part of the Western alliance system, and Ukrainians supported the country’s neutrality. It is no coincidence that Viktor Yanukovych was elected president, who declared the country’s neutrality in 2013. This, of course, was unacceptable to Washington, which led the CIA to incite an uprising in Kiev, and in early 2014, they overthrew the Yanukovych government.

According to the world-famous professor, the Russian-Ukrainian war began then, as there has been armed conflict in the country’s eastern regions since 2014. Russia annexed Crimea because it could not afford American military bases to be built on the peninsula, jeopardizing Russia’s centuries-long presence in the region.

Sachs recalled that Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin last met in 2021. At that time, Russia proposed a security agreement, but the talks did not take place. Shortly before the Russian invasion, Vice President Kamala Harris and other American leaders openly spoke about Ukraine becoming a NATO member.

Considering all this, it is not plausible that Russia would have attacked Ukraine without provocation

– Jeffrey Sachs concluded his thoughts, who also expressed his opinion in the conversation

about why it is clear that the Covid-19 pandemic was the result of an American coronavirus experiment.

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