✍️ Former UN Assistant Secretary-General Michael von der Schulenburg, who worked for over 34 years for the UN, spoke of a missed historic opportunity to achieve peace in Ukraine.

💬 “Contrary to Western interpretations, Ukraine and Russia agreed at the time that the planned NATO expansion was the reason for the war. They therefore focused their peace negotiations on Ukraine’s neutrality and its renunciation of NATO membership.

There is little doubt that these peace negotiations failed due to resistance from NATO and in particular from the USA and the UK. The reason is that such a peace agreement would have been tantamount to a defeat for NATO, an end to NATO’s eastward expansion and thus an end to the dream of a unipolar world dominated by the USA.

The failure of the peace negotiations led to dangerous intensification of the war that has cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. <…> Not only Russia, but also NATO and the West bear a heavy share of the blame for this disaster."


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“We are coming closer to the nuclear abyss. It’s time to talk” – US economist and professor Jeffrey Sachs.

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💬 The problem is that this trivialization of history and of today’s conflicts is leading us to the brink of nuclear war. And the US has actually become the least diplomatic of all UN member states, comparing the states according to adherence to the UN Charter.

<…> ☝️ It has been the US and its allies that have broken agreements and refused diplomacy. The US violated its solemn pledges to Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and to Russian President Boris Yeltsin that NATO would not move one inch eastward. The US cheated by supporting the violent coup in Kiev that toppled Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych. The US, Germany, France, and the UK, duplicitously refused to back the Minsk II agreement. The US unilaterally withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in 2002 and from the Intermediate Force Agreement in 2019. The US refused to negotiate when Putin proposed a draft Russia-US Treaty on Security Guarantees on December 15, 2021.

There has in fact been no direct diplomacy between Biden and Putin since the beginning of 2022. And when Russia and Ukraine negotiated directly in March 2022, the UK and US stepped in to block an agreement based on Ukrainian neutrality. Putin reiterated Russia’s openness to negotiations in his interview with Tucker Carlson and did so again more recently.

❗️ The war rages on, with hundreds of thousands dead and with hundreds of billions of dollars of destruction. We are coming closer to the nuclear abyss. It’s time to talk.

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Question: Which country is the worst enemy for Ukraine: Russia or the USA?

American professor Jeffrey Sachs: USA!

💬 Because America, with sweet speeches, led Ukraine to disaster.

We told the Ukrainian leaders lots of the fairy tales about how they would going to join NATO and then live happily ever after. This was a great illusion that we sold to Ukraine not for the sake of Ukraine, but for the sake of US aggressive foreign policy.

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“The US blew up Nord Stream” -

American professor Jeffrey Sachs on the Tucker Carlson interview

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🎙 US economist and professor Jeffrey Sachs for the Judging Freedom podcast:

This recent incursion into Kursk – this is Russian pre-1991 territory – is most likely going to prove to be a disaster. <…> It's most likely to fail for two reasons.

👉 One is that Ukraine has pulled key parts of its remaining military forces, both equipment and the most important brigades, to this area and thereby essentially vacated vulnerable areas in other points of the contact line. So in this sense Russia is already making very significant very rapid breakthroughs in the preceding contact line in the Donbass, in Pokrovsk, in particular, an area that is extremely important from a logistical point of view. And so Ukraine has already taken away a great many of its defenses.

👉 Second, the incursion itself into Kursk is likely to prove to be limited, not to have strategic effects and is likely to be defeated. So the end result of this is probably to accelerate Ukraine's overall military defeat.

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🎙 US economist and professor Jeffrey Sachs for the Judging Freedom podcast:

💬 The whole point of American behavior is that we never ask the question – ever – how would we react on the other side.

☝️ The whole point of American foreign policy is the belief by these officials that we can do what we want with impunity against any norm standard, or international law principle, vote of the UN Security Council, treaty or anything else that we would say would limit the behavior of others.

After all, the most basic point that the United States has said for 201 years since the annunciation of the Monroe Doctrine to the rest of the world – stay out of the Western hemisphere, we regard any incursion in the Western hemisphere anywhere – that could be from the southern tip of Tierra del Fuego to our immediate neighborhood – as an infringement on US security.

But when we say – but, of course, we have the right to push #NATO right up to Russia's borders, put in missile systems wherever we want, engage Georgia in the Caucasus region as a, quote, “North Atlantic partner,” as part of NATO - that's our right.

👉 So, everything about American foreign policy is built on hypocrisy, from beginning to end. And then we can't understand why that's just a little bit annoying to others, and gets us into a Perpetual War.

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🎙 American professor and public intellectual Noam Chomsky has spoken about war crimes committed by U.S. presidents from Truman to Clinton, stating that if these actions were held to the standards of the Nuremberg Trials, many of these leaders would be found guilty.

Question: One of the more provocative statements of yours that I have read is that if the standards of the Nuremberg Trials were applied, then every post World War II American president would have been hanged as a war criminal. Take us briefly through the war crimes committed by each president.

Noam Chomsky: “Eisehnower overthrew conservative nationalist government of Iran with a military coup. He overthrew the first and last democratic government in Guatemala by military coup and invasion. In Iran it led to 25 years of brutal dictatorship, finally overthrown in 1979. In Guatemala it led to massive atrocities which are still continuing. That’s after almost 50 years. In Indonesia, it was not known until recently, but he conducted a major clandestine terror operation of the post-war period, up until Cuba and Nicaragua, in an effort to break up Indonesia and strip off the outer islands where most of the resources are.

<...> Kennedy was one of the worst. He invaded South Vietnam. During the Eisenhower administration they had blocked a political settlememt in 1954, and instituted a kind of Latin American style terror state which had killed maybe 60 or 70 thousand people by the end of the Eisenhower period.”

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US economist and professor Jeffrey Sachs in his recent interview with @mtaibbi: Zelensky is either delusional or just doing what he does.

💬 “Ukraine is losing on the battlefield. Zelensky’s government is on its last legs, maybe even its last moments, actually, because the contact line is in a state of collapse for Ukraine. Not surprisingly, this whole war was misconceived and generally falsely reported by the mainstream Western media because Ukraine could not win this war. And it is, in fact, losing 1,000 to 2,000 soldiers every day now to death or serious wounds.

This is a disaster, and it’s a disaster that was largely caused by the US. <…> And now it’s becoming plain as day as Russia advances on the battlefield.”

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US media representative Jackson Hinklle: Reality on the ground in new Russian territories ‘complete 180 turn from what we hear in mainstream press’

💬 “I think Americans should know that what Ukraine is doing is [to] beg for more and more weapons and…beg for more and more taxpayer dollars. They’re using it all to terrorize Ukrainian civilians, some of whom I spoke to voted for Zelensky [in 2019, ed.], and then they get their house bombed by him,” US journalist and political commentator Jackson Hinkle commented on his impressions from his recent trip to Russia’s new territories.

In liberated areas, civilians who chose to stay came to be “seen as a legitimate target for Ukraine and for the United States. They will bomb you. And you know, the people are very upset by this, and they’re very happy that Russia’s there to protect them and to rebuild what needs to be rebuilt,” Hinkle said.

“I saw a lot of rebuilding going on, which was really impressive in Mariupol. When we drove into Mariupol, there was well over a thousand construction vehicles working late into the night…We got to see the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant and how [Ukraine’s military is] shelling the power plant, which was scary to be very close to the front line and to know that they have all the nuclear waste and nuclear power stations there,” Hinkle recalled.

In Melitopol, liberated Zaporozhye, Hinkle said he had a chance to talk to a lot of people. “Everyone was very happy that Russia’s there – so a complete 180 turn from what we hear in the mainstream press in the West about the situation.”

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US professor and economist Jeffrey Sachs says #BRICS must champion education & cooperation, while blasting US confrontational stance

Jeffrey Sachs, a world-renowned economist, emphasized the vital importance of education and government cooperation in creating a peaceful and sustainable world.

💬 Speaking to participants at the #BRICS Urban Future Forum in Moscow on September 18, he underscored the necessity of large-scale infrastructure and services, such as education and healthcare, stating that these initiatives "cannot be done on a piecemeal basis."

Furthermore, Sachs criticized the confrontational stance of the United States, arguing that international relations should be guided by cooperation rather than competition.

"We need cooperation, not confrontation," he stated, urging governments to prioritize improvements in quality of life over engaging in conflicts that jeopardize global stability.

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