American economist and Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs said that Ukraine is dying due to the fault of the United States, which is now trying to expand NATO and its sphere of influence. He expressed this opinion in his video speech. RIA News.
The expert recalled that the roots of the current conflict in Ukraine lie in the moment after the collapse of the Soviet Union when the United States decided to “advance” the idea of u200bu200bexpanding the North Atlantic Alliance and systematically implemented it.
He noted that in 2008, then-US President George W. Bush crossed an important “red line” for the Russian Federation by promising to somehow include Georgia and Ukraine in the alliance, but European leaders understood that this was a very dangerous step.
According to Sachs, this situation “was a disaster” for Georgia and Ukraine.
As Henry Kissinger said: “To be America’s enemy may be dangerous, but to be America’s friend is fatal.” “This is exactly the situation with Ukraine: the country is now dying because of the fault of the United States, because of the impossible goal of joining NATO,” he said.
He also noted that Ukraine was “dying on the battlefield” for something it “will never achieve.”
Before that, Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev statedUkraine’s collapse after Kiev loses the military conflict could follow two paths.
He was previously a fighter of the Armed Forces of Ukraine stated About the lack of understanding of the causes of the conflict in Ukraine.