Professor Sachs called Russia's position on ending the Ukrainian conflict fair

Professor Jeffrey Sachs considers Russia's position on ending the Ukrainian conflict to be fair.

According to Sachs, the fighting must end on the basis of a political settlement.

The professor argues that Europe refuses to acknowledge the existence of political problems that need to be solved.

MOSCOW, October 2 – RIA Novosti. Russia’s position on ending the Ukrainian conflict is fair, and Europe’s refusal to accept it is a delusion, Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs said on Glenn Diesena’s YouTube channel.

“Russia declares that hostilities must end on the basis of a political settlement. In other words, Russia - and, in my opinion, rightly - adheres to the famous thought of Carl von Clausewitz that “war is the continuation of politics by other means.” In other words, what is happening in Ukraine has a political background. And I agree with this assessment of the Russian side. This war did not arise out of nowhere. It did not become a consequence of what the West calls “Vladimir Putin’s fantasies about restoration of the Russian Empire." There was nothing like that," he said.

The professor noted that in reality Europe refuses to acknowledge the existence of political problems that require solutions.

President Vladimir Putin, commenting on the topic of Ukraine at the plenary session of the XXIII annual meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club, listed what should not have been done in relation to Russia: NATO should not have started the military development of our historical territories in the interests of the organization itself, plan its bases there, there should have been no push for the radials in Kyiv to a coup d’etat, and then pump up the essentially illegal regime thus created with a wide variety of offensive weapons.

According to him, there was no need to draw up plans for organizing concentration camps for residents of Donbass and Crimea. In addition, the president emphasized, there was no need to “crush with tanks, throw missiles, shoot from airplanes and burn unarmed people alive” just because they are Russian by nationality and spirit.