Ukraine

Dago said
I'm going to start off by apologizing if this was already posted in here. I am not endorsing it....I am asking if those more knowledgeable than I about the history of the region can confirm this account or explain how it is wrong or misrepresenting the recent history.

at 2:30 second, Sachs starts naming "latvia, Lithuainia, Slovakia....etc " - 7 countries- ALL OF WHICH were NATO members in 2004.

Not 2014.
Not 2020
Not 2022.

We have had this discussion on the MAP board Ukraine thread by another former poster there who would post every time Sachs spoke.

He has never relented on the NATO expansion narrative. Even when PUTIN himself said it wasnt about that ( then it was, then it wasnt - when its convenient )

He is an economist by training- has no formal foreign policy experience - he has been on this Maidan revolution in 2014 ( that it was a US operation )

IT wasnt- it was a grass roots uprising againts Yanukovich, who was about to sign a pact with Europe, then at LAST MINUTE, said "nope...going with Russia" and THAT is when the people of Ukraine said "enough of Russia"

https://www.netflix.com/title/80031666
He is biased to his own reasoning for the Russian invasion. Ignoring so many variables...THE MAIN one being Putin CLEARLY stated that his LEGACY is to be the restoration of the USSR- to USSR/Soviet borders.

Period. end of story.