![]() ![]() In other words, there would be a deal that on the Soviet side, the military alliance, the so-called Warsaw Pact, would be ended, and on the Western side, NATO would not take advantage and Germany would be reunified, but NATO would not move one inch eastward. In 1990, the US and Germany promised the Soviet government at the time, Mikhail Gorbachev, the President, that NATO would not move one inch eastward if Gorbachev went ahead and disbanded the Soviet Military Alliance. ![]() Actually, the roots of this war go back to the end of the Soviet Union and to the geopolitics around that. The war is often defined as an unprovoked attack in 2022. It didn’t just come out of a Russian invasion in 2022, as is often said in the Western mainstream media. This conflict is actually decades in the making. How did we get here? How do we get out of it? And if the United States isn’t the country to help broker that peace, what country is? Help us understand the history of the war in Ukraine. The Creative Process – One Planet podcast ![]() In this conversation with economist Jeffrey Sachs, we discuss the origins of the conflict in Ukraine and NATO enlargement, US-China relations, and the decline of US dominance. What is the path to peace for the war in Ukraine? Is America still powerful enough to impose global order? The US has just 4.1% of the world’s population, while the BRICS countries have 41.5%. ![]()
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