Just so you guys are aware, anytime you find yourselves accepting narratives from Jeffrey Sachs and John Mearscheimer, you have lost the plot. These are UN Globalists/Neoliberals/Ivy League professors from Columbia and U of Chicago. Literal hotbeds of communism/marxism/socialism planted in the US to steer leaders into anti-American ideologies.
Some of their points are cherry-picked to make convincing arguments for their premises, but they purposely leave out critical historical events, the Holodomor being the most egregious omission.
These are Ivy League neoliberal apologists for Russia, who came from Marxist institutional political philosophies dominating the faculties they studied under.
Mearscheimer was a Council on Foreign Relations fellow. I agree with some of what he has said, and have problems with other positions he has. For example, his position that Ukraine needs a nuclear deterrent back in 1993 proved to be correct.
I don’t agree with his position that the US is to blame for Putin choosing to invade Ukraine. Putin was going to invade or control Ukraine one way or another in his strategic vision. Americans, even the academics who have studied Russia for decades, don’t understand Russian history, culture, and thinking about Ukraine.
Jeffrey Sachs is a Columbia University Professor, big time proponent of ESG/DEI/UN agenda. He has poisoned the minds of millions of people through his influence from The Earth Institute and Columbia.
Sachs co-founded the Millennium Promise Alliance, which is a money-laundering front that has received millions in grants from USAID.
They scrubbed their PDF on how they have received USAID money for years.
So when you find yourselves swallowing propaganda from the likes of these guys, just understand that you won’t have any credibility going forward. Just because they spoon-feed you with nicely-wrapped messaging, does not mean it is valid.