The Speech that broke the internet & media - Jeffrey Sachs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIObmRUoTx8

what we hear from the rhetoric in our mainstream media in the United States is well Putin is uh is a Hitler uh and he has to be stopped and we have to defeat him
and uh it's as simple as that and there's no talking to him uh the man is crazed uh
Living in a Dream World of uh of Russian imperialism uh there's no stopping him
in any agreement is to rip up a piece of paper; I can tell you uh it's it's I'm an old
guy now 67. I've lived through this characterization every decade there's a new Hitler that we can't deal with whether it was Ho Chi Minh or whether it was Vietnam or
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whether it was Cambodia or Laos or
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Nicaragua For Heaven's Sake or Iraq or
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Syria we are real good at this game of
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rhetoric
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but this is
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not real and since I am all over the
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world virtually all the time speaking
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with world leaders what we hear in our
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media is propaganda it is not real
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we should be negotiated actually Biden
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refused to negotiate with Putin in 2021
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because Putin raised a very specific set
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of points
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one was NATO enlargement
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and then there's a chorus here that says
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oh that's a that's a phony issue that's
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a red herring that's that's fake that's
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not fake I've been in this issue since
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1990 when the West promised Gorbachev no
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NATO enlargement we're liars I'm sorry
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to put it that way we cheated we
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continue to do this and then Biden
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refused to negotiate okay that's
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straightforward except it's not the way
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the story is full
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then there is the question of Ukraine
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itself which is a ethnically divided
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country because there is a significant
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Russian minority and those are real
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issues by the way although war is not an
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answer to them in any sense
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but there was a a very complicated
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I
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very difficult conflict where the U.S
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was stirring the pot also back in a
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decade ago and especially around 2014
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and 2015
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and there were actually agreements for
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each for the area where the fighting is
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Raging right now for the Don Moss region
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and the agreements were called the
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minced one and mints II agreements they
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were signed by the Ukraine government
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and then the government said now we
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don't want to do those
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and uh
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when Putin says well what about the
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Minsk agreements
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he is shouted down or ignored no they
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don't exist they were unfair they were
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this they were that they were actually
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agreements when I say this oh I can only
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tell you how many uh emails I'm going to
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get from uh you know Ukrainian Canadians
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Ukrainian American sex are you crazy
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what are you saying but the truth is
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diplomacy is crucial if you're going to
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avoid Wars signing agreements matters
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you can't just walk away from them
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that's true of Russia I'm the first to
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say it's true of Ukraine also it's true
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of the United States also and so we
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actually should be sitting down and
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negotiating and all of our media
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is
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don't
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discuss
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substance of what this war is really
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about or what its roots are or even what
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the claims of Putin are just say
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repeatedly he's Hitler he's a Madman
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he's out of control there's nothing to
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do but defeat him that's our Mantra that
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kind of Mantra can get us all killed if
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we go down this road because it's false
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and it's extraordinarily dangerous
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because like it or not we don't like it
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but Russia has one thousand 600 active
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nuclear warheads and we don't even want
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to sit down to talk and shame on our
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government not to have diplomacy
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with Russia
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at least sit talk discuss and explain we
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don't do that
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we just say victory victory victory on
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the battlefield
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well I'm not in it for that because this
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is a very dangerous and very unwise uh
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we're providing the weapons in the U.S
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and even more the UK you know which
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which is a more experienced Empire than
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the US
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has a a mindset even though it's you
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know the Empire is long gone but they
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still have a imperial mindset that is
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even more Imperial than our mindset
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um they said to the ukrainians don't
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negotiate you don't have to just beat
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them beat them on the field so what was
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on the table at the end of March was
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basically neutrality for Ukraine so that
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NATO and Russia wouldn't be right up
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against the border with each other which
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is incredibly dangerous because if you
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have the two forces right up against
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each other you were on a tripwire of
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nuclear war
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we should have a Zone where we're apart
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where there's some time to talk some
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time to work out problems for
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deconfliction but no we wanted to be
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right up against the Border but what
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zielinski said back in the end of March
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was neutrality neutrality with
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guarantees okay that's a very valid
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issue how is that neutrality going to be
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protected but that was point one point
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two was something on the Don Moss even I
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said okay mince one mins two were signed
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you can't just walk away from those
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agreements you have to do something
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about them
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the third which is a
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Everybody by the way on the inside
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acknowledges there's no answer is Crimea
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because Crimea is a really weird story
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of uh Russia's Seaport on the Black Sea
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it's naval base in spared loss so
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fundamental for Russian security but
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Khrushchev in 1954 of course
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you know what was then a completely
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symbolic gesture
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when the Soviet Union had administrative
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uh lines that were within a an overall
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State he said okay
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we gift Crimea from Russia to Ukraine it
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didn't mean anything when there was a
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Soviet Army and Soviet a naval base and
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all the rest but after 1991 it certainly
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meant something and what happened in
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2014 was
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uh the pro-russian president was
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overthrown
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uh Russia views that as a U.S instigated
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coup
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there is something to that I I know uh
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actually but again this is one of those
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things that the Western media simply
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will not discuss and it's so deeply
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hidden in uh in classified documents
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that maybe in 50 years someone will
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write a good book about Ukraine 2014 if
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we get to 50 years from now