FTA:
"The background was that President Putin declared in the autumn of 2021, and actually sent a draft treaty that they wanted NATO to sign, to promise no more NATO enlargement."
The background background is that Putin invaded Ukraine (Crimea) in 2014.
Yeah no that's misinformation
You're going to get a lot of hate for posting this, because it's disinformative crap and Putin is a war criminal.
If you want to see a talk that does actually bring this perspective -- more or less, that Putin does have valid reasons for seeing his security threatened by the expansion of NATO -- without the propaganda crap and without somehow trying to say that that justifies Russia invading a sovereign nation to rape and murder its civilian citizens, then watch this talk by John Mearsheimer. Inflammatory title aside, it's excellent.
Ah yes Jeffrey D. Sachs, trusted and respected economist.
In 2022, he appeared twice on one of the top-rated shows funded by the Russian government, hosted by Vladimir Solovyov, to call for Ukraine to negotiate and step away from its "maximalist demands" of removing Russia from Ukrainian territory.
Sachs is a "long-time advocate of dismantling American hegemony and embracing the rise of China." He believes the term "genocide" is mistaken in relation to the repression of the Uyghurs in China.
In July 2022, Sachs said he was "pretty convinced," though "not sure" that COVID-19 came out of "US lab biotechnology," which is considered by the European Union to be COVID-19 disinformation by China.
(Wikipedia)
pretty normal opinions imo