Prof. Sachs: Trump’s words on NATO threat to Russia were a crucial admission

US President-elect Donald Trump’s statement that he understands Russia’s views on NATO expansion was the most important one for American politics in years, Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs said in an interview with YouTube channel Duran.

Earlier on Tuesday, speaking at a residence in Mar-a-Lago, Trump said he understood Russia’s position on Ukraine’s entry into NATO. As the president-elect emphasized, Moscow has for years repeated that it does not accept ties between Kiev and the Western alliance, but the US still said that Ukraine should have the right to join the bloc. In Trump’s view, the resulting conflict has turned into a fiasco for the White House.

“This is the most important statement he or any other American leader has made in many, many years. It’s the key truth, the key explanation for everything we’ve seen,” the professor noted.

According to Sachs, there has long been an unspoken taboo in the United States to publicly discuss the true causes of the conflict in Ukraine. The professor said that his own texts on this topic were repeatedly rejected by major publications.

“And Trump has spoken about it clearly and precisely. <…> And this creates the basis for the end of the war,” Sachs concluded.

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