“It may seem counterintuitive, but if you pay close mind to the call by Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, head of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network, for "urgent and intensified diplomacy to end the war in Ukraine," you might be moved, as I was, by how it resonates with, and brings to mind, the courageous stance of President John F. Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis, when JFK defied the military industrial complex to negotiate directly and successfully with Moscow - hence defusing a nuclear catastrophe. Today, the stakes demonstrably are just as high. I invite you to listen in to the carefully wrought stance of Dr. Sachs -- professor at Columbia University, renowned leader in sustainable development, author of the classic 'The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time' -- in this exchange I had today with him, at the start of the Memorial Day weekend.”