
Economist Jeffrey Sachs and Marxist historian Vijay Prashad discuss how US arrogance provoked the Ukraine War and thwarted peace.

Citing the fate of the 2014-15 Minsk agreement, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov rejected French President Emmanuel Macron’s proposal for mediation between Russia and Ukraine, calling it empty posturing and an attempt to seek attention

Ukrainians have been paying a terrible price for the failure of ensuring sensible and reasonable negotiations from 2014 to February 2022 – which could have prevented the invasion by Russia in the first place, and once the war started, could have led to the end of this war

For many in Ukraine’s Southeast, the war we see today actually started in the spring of 2014 and has not stopped since.