Jeffrey Sachs: Understanding the Ukraine conflict

Understanding the Ukraine conflict (minidoc).
A mini-documentary on the background of the Ukraine conflict follows Jeffrey Sachs’ lecture at the Cambridge Union. The journey begins in the early 1990s and continues to the present day. The documentary features interviews and statements from world leaders along the way, shedding light on significant historical geopolitical events and questioning the narrative created by Western media. What is true and what is not—that decision is left to the viewer. However, the most important thing is not who is right but that there are understandable explanations for everything that has happened, and that these events are merely the result of a chain reaction of numerous events, the consequences of which we are now witnessing. Jeffrey David Sachs is an American economist and public policy analyst who is a professor at Columbia University, where he was former director of The Earth Institute. He worked on the topics of sustainable development and economic development.
As the showdown between the soon to be ex-president of Georgia with the government looms and Europe and the US are sanctioning elected (and unelected) leaders in Tbilisi, some people recall how the entire debacle actually started. The interference campaigns since the early 2000s and the empty promises (of NATO membership) to turn Russia’s neighbours into its worst enemies are finally coming back to haunt the neocon-neolib autocrats in Washington and Brussels.