Why Did the Ukraine War Happen—and What Does China Have to Do With it | Jeffrey Sachs

Описание: 🇺🇦 Why the Ukraine War Happened—and Why the West Keeps Linking It to China

This video is based on Diplomatie oder Desaster by Jeffrey Sachs.
The core idea: Sachs argues the West’s “good guys vs. rogue states” framing of Russia and China is not just wrong—it’s destabilizing. It blocks diplomacy by shaping public opinion, hiding Western escalation choices, and making negotiation politically toxic.

The mechanism: U.S. strategy documents define Russia and China as permanent enemies; that worldview is then sustained through selective storytelling that downplays U.S. interventions, covert ops, and alliance expansion. The result is an escalation-ready public and leaders boxed out of compromise.

Ukraine case: Sachs rejects the “unprovoked, context-free” storyline and instead points to a buildup—NATO expansion, post-2014 Western involvement in Ukraine, Minsk II failure, rising arms flows, and refusal to negotiate NATO–Ukraine terms—turning war into a foreseeable outcome of accumulated decisions.

China link: China is folded into the same adversary architecture—NATO’s Asia-Pacific outreach and Taiwan flashpoints are framed through the same double standard. Sachs warns this primacy-driven, globally linked confrontation model increases the odds of a wider war.

In this video, you’ll learn:
☢️ Why Sachs says “narrative” is a weapon—how simplifying Russia/China into a single villain story shrinks diplomatic options
📜 Why U.S. strategy documents matter—how official framing of Russia + China shapes alliance policy and public expectations
🧩 Why the Ukraine war wasn’t “context-free” in Sachs’s account—NATO expansion, 2014, Minsk II failures, arms deliveries, and stalled negotiations
⚖️ Why double standards accelerate escalation—how Taiwan episodes illustrate asymmetric condemnation and narrative control
🌍 Why hegemony is the dangerous variable—why Sachs argues U.S. primacy strategy is outdated in a multipolar world
🇪🇺 Why Europe’s security depends on diplomacy—why he argues Europe should prioritize its own security arrangements over automatic alignment
🕊️ What the exit path is—why Sachs claims diplomacy, not military escalation, is the only viable path to European and global security

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