In the following interview with Professor Jeffrey Sachs we analyze the geopolitical reasons, some call it the grand chess game, for the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Professor Sachs is a renowned Economist from the Columbia University and Director of the center for sustainable development, who has, one way or another, truly left his mark on history as you will find out in a moment.

Welcome to the SaltCubeAnalytics Podcast/Interview series where Thomas S. Karat chats with the world’s leading subject matter experts and thought leaders about their areas of expertise related to human behavior and behavior analysis, deception detection, manipulation, influence and persuasion.

Timestamps:

00:00 Ukraine, the path to a nuclear Armageddon.

05:18 Jeffrey Sachs and Yeltsin in the Kremlin

07:43 Books

08:46 The ‘unprovoked’ war in Ukraine

10:00 What it means to cooperate

14:50 Lessons from Cub

16:50 The Monroe Doctrine

18:15 Voices silenced

22:30 Nord Stream pipeline sabotage, who did it?

28:30 The shelling of Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant

34:50 How one person prevented nuclear war

36:36 Why is Ukraine important for Russia and the USA

41:22 NATO expansion and its consequences

44:30 NATO and what was promised to Gorbachev

46:45 Ukraine and Georgia to join NATO

48:30 Putin’s views

52:10 Illegal wars according to international law

52:55 US involvement in the Maidan revolution

58:50 The economic downfall of Russia under Yeltsin

1:03:40 BRICS and the fall of the petrodollar

1:09:00 Noam Chomsky and Professor Mearsheimer

1:12:55 Debriefing

For more information about Professor Sachs visit his website:

https://www.jeffsachs.org

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