Svitlana S.
Ukrainian🇺🇦 in France 🇨🇵 Political analyst who assembles puzzles featuring political images and themes.
Odessa I.I.Mechnikov National University FOR OUR FREEDOM
Vichy, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
April 27, 2025
Earlier today, I stumbled upon a “live-streamed” speech by Professor Jeffrey Sachs at the European Parliament. Curious, I watched — only to realize the event had taken place a few months earlier. The speech was not simply an academic lecture.
The title of the video was a masterpiece of emotional manipulation:
“LIVE: ‘Ukraine War is Over’, Jeffrey Sachs Makes Fiery Speech At EU Parliament, Challenges America!”
It was a carefully reintroduced piece of Kremlin-aligned messaging, at a critical moment when the West is deciding the future of Ukraine — and of democracy itself.
🔻 Sachs blamed NATO for Russia’s invasion.
🔻 He painted Russia — the invader — as a misunderstood victim.
🔻 He called for “negotiations,” ignoring Russia’s endless trail of broken treaties, massacres, and destroyed nations.
This isn’t peace advocacy.
It’s a dangerous whitewashing of war crimes and a direct threat to the moral clarity we must defend.
The Reality Jeffrey Sachs Ignores:
🛑 Eastern European countries voluntarily joined NATO after decades of Soviet oppression.
🛑 Russia’s aggression predates NATO expansion: Moldova (Transnistria), Georgia, Chechnya, Syria, Ukraine.
🛑 Russia promised to respect Ukraine’s sovereignty — and then betrayed it in blood.
Today, Russian forces occupy territories across Moldova, Georgia, Ukraine, and Syria.
Today, Russian bombs prop up Assad’s dictatorship after he fled to Moscow for protection.
Meanwhile, Sachs proposes we “negotiate” — not with statesmen, but with war criminals whose actions have left scars on nearly every continent.
Why Now?
This sudden resurfacing of Sachs’s speech is no accident.
Russia is losing ground militarily.
Its economy is crumbling under sanctions.
There is no “Trump rescue” coming.
The Kremlin’s only hope lies in weakening the West from within — through narratives of doubt, fatigue, and false peace.
Hybrid warfare is in full swing.
The new battlefield is your mind.
What Is at Stake:
One aggressor: Russia.
One victim: Ukraine.
There is no grey zone.
Negotiating without accountability means legitimizing terror.
Today it is Ukraine.
Tomorrow it could be Poland, the Baltic States — or any nation standing for freedom.
History will judge us by whether we stood firm when it mattered most.
⚡ I have prepared a full deep-dive exposing Sachs’s dangerous narrative, its manipulation strategies, and the broader Kremlin disinformation operation targeting Europe right now.
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Sachs was previously a good economist but later turned into a ruzzian propaganda machine. I guess that’s why he is no longer at Harvard… https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4727046-from-economist-to-kremlin-mouthpiece-the-troubling-transformation-of-jeffrey-sachs/amp/ https://www.neglobal.eu/jeffrey-sachs-three-times-a-traitor/
Svitlana S. 🇺🇦 Alina Pereverzieva Thanks for this good analysis – not much to add, except some background. Note: This was not an official invitation of the EU parliament, but by Michael von Schulenburg from the BSW/Sarah Wagenknecht party.
Jeffrey Sachs is spreading the narrative “NATO/CIA/Maidan coup, poor, helpless Ukrainians abused by the West” since years. He sees himself as “liberal”, not noticing that the “neocons” he is fighting against are out of power since 2008. He thinks, only he knows, that the US invasion in Irak, Afghanistan was a mistake – yet this is the only issue all US Americans agree on…
https://voxukraine.org/en/open-letter-to-jeffrey-sachs https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2023/04/09/economics-professors-condemn-jeffrey-sachs-in-open-letter-on-russia-ukraine-war/
Von Schulenburg on (OMG!🙄) kommunisten.de: https://kommunisten.de/rubriken/meinungen/8733-es-geht-darum-den-frieden-und-nicht-den-krieg-zu-gewinnen
Ralf Steger (SPD) – correct analysis https://www.abgeordnetenwatch.de/profile/ralf-stegner/fragen-antworten/warum-unterstellen-sie-dem-deutscher-politiker-und-vormaliger-diplomat-der-osze-sowie-der-un-michael-von-der
I tried to find out, who did invite Sachs to the European Parliament and if he received the reimbursement of travel expenses ! In the European Commission there is a service to detect and fight désinformation. This is a case for the court of accounts, given it would be a waste of taxpayer’s money!
Christopher J. Wajnikonis P.E. (TX), CEng (U.K.)
Jefferey Sachs is the World leading Putin’s USΣFUL lDl0T. It appears that he might believe what he writes & says -that might warrant medical assessment. My engineering suspicion is that something like a chronic case of Stockholm Syndrome might surface from that.
The additional problem is that few have done so much damage as he has. All Putin’s trolls quote him while mentioning his ‘academic credinetials’ or implying them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome
Christopher J. Wajnikonis I think that we can`t imagine how many he receiving from russia. He is not idiot. He has good money.
In the 1990s, Jeffrey Sachs advised post-Soviet economic reforms (“shock therapy”), which failed disastrously.
Sachs blames the USA and the IMF for the outcome, not himself, and this experience left him deeply skeptical of American policy in Eastern Europe.
Today, he seems less supportive of Russia rather than determined to blame the United States — even when it means echoing Kremlin narratives.
Alina Pereverzieva – exactly ! I know the guy and from time to time listen him with pleasure – when he talks about US tariffs. Regarding Russia and Russian war in Ukraine, Jeffrey Sachs is (sadly) absolutely incompetent and super harmful, playing a pathetic role of Kremlin’s “useful idiot” and / or influencer by lieing how well he knows Russia, Ukraine and their former leaders.
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And now Peter Hitchens, who has been “at it” for decades. Ever since he lived in Moscow in the 1990’s.
PETER HITCHENS: You’ve been fed propaganda nonsense about Ukraine and the invented Russian menace. These are the lies you’ve been told
April 27, 2025
In my trade I have long grown used to the way governments lie and get others to lie for them. It is what they do. But I have seldom seen such a cloud of lies as we face now.
Hardly anyone in this country knows the truth about Ukraine. There has been nothing like it since we were all lied to about the Iraq invasion, with bilge about fictional ‘Weapons of Mass Destruction’. The liars were caught out. And they learned from it. They learned to lie more skilfully.
Meanwhile, many of those in our society who knew how to challenge such lies died off or retired and were not replaced.
We have never had a debate about the Ukraine crisis which started from the beginning. Did anyone in power ever tell you truthfully how, when or why this war began? No. Did anyone in power explain why Britain, crime-blighted, decrepit, rubbish-strewn, rat-infested, broke Britain, had to get involved in it? Never.
You have just been fed propaganda rubbish about ‘democracy’, freedom and an invented Russian menace. Here are some of the lies you have repeatedly been told.
The war, they say, was not provoked. Seldom in history has a war been more provoked.
Russians, nice ones like the liberal, democratic politician Yegor Gaidar, and nasty ones like the bloody despot Vladimir Putin, begged the West to stop trundling its military alliance, Nato, eastwards towards Russia.
All Russians, including the great anti-Communist author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, had been shocked and angered when Nato in 1999 abruptly gave up its defensive posture and launched attacks on Yugoslavia – which had not attacked a Nato member.
These protests reached their peak in February 2007, when Putin made a dramatic speech in Munich. He said Nato expansion was ‘a serious provocation that reduces the level of mutual trust. We have the right to ask: against whom is this expansion intended?’
Look, if someone as gaunt as Putin spoke to you like that in a pub late in the evening, you’d take it as a warning that he was seriously riled. And unless you wanted a fight, you’d back off. But we didn’t back off.
US President George W. Bush, the genius who invaded Iraq, deliberately raised the temperature the following year. Can it be that Bush likes wars?
In April 2008, Bush said that Ukraine should be placed on the path towards joining Nato. Even the Guardian, the Liberal Warmonger’s Gazette, conceded that this was ‘likely to infuriate the Kremlin’. And so it did. I suspect we were on the path to war from that moment.
I am always accused, when I say that, of making excuses for Putin. I am not. I think he was stupid as well as wrong to be provoked. Wise men ignore provocations. But to claim he was not provoked is just to lie.
Another lie we are repeatedly told is that Russia attacked Georgia later in 2008. But anyone can find, on the web, a 2009 Reuters news agency story headlined ‘Georgia started war with Russia: EU-backed report’.
The dispatch summarises an inquiry by the respected Swiss diplomat Heidi Tagliavini. She had been asked by Brussels to look into that war. That is what she said. But, somehow or other, a lot of Western media outlets failed to find space for it. I still meet supposedly informed people who have never heard of Ms Tagliavini or her report.
And then there is the claim that this is about democracy and freedom. It isn’t. The more the West claims to care for these things, the less it does to help them.
Some examples: Ukraine’s elected president was lawlessly overthrown by a mob in 2014. Britain and the USA condoned this shameful event because they preferred the illegal rebels to the elected government. You just can’t do that and pretend to be the guardian of democracy. But then, we aren’t anyway.
You will search in vain for protests against the treatment of Romania’s presidential candidate, in a country that is in the EU and Nato.
Calin Georgescu’s election was annulled by judges in December when he looked like winning the first round. And he has been banned from standing in the second round – all because he has the wrong kind of politics. And if that’s not enough, look at the West’s deep, shaming silence over the frightening, thuggish behaviour of Turkey’s President Recep Erdogan.
A few weeks ago, this Turkish Putin arrested and jailed Ekrem Imamoglu, an opposition politician who looked likely to beat him at the polls.
Mr Imamoglu joined the many journalists and democrats who already rot in Turkish prisons.
Erdogan has crushed free media, free speech and the freedom to protest. But his country is still allowed to stay in Nato, and Western states have made less noise than an angry vole guarding its nest. They’re scared of Erdogan.
I won’t even try to explain how Germany recently recalled its old, dead parliament to push through laws the newly elected parliament would not pass. This was done to allow the spending of extra billions on the Ukraine war. But I hope you get my drift.
Demand proper debate. Demand the truth. Don’t be dragged into more stupidity, or we will end up with bomb craters as well as potholes.
Sachs is on the left/far left. Hitchens is far right, although he started his career as a Trotskyist; once again demonstrating the far left/far right horseshoe.
Hitchens’ technique is always the same: rehashing kremkrapp, whilst avoiding being called out as a troll by inserting criticism of putler.
He traveled to Crimea in 2010, met a ruZZian admiral and a couple of putinaZi skanks in a cafe and announced that “Ukraine is a fanciful country.”
This motherfucker is so evil that he deserves a job in Krasnov’s cabinet.
“The Kremlin’s only hope lies in weakening the West from within”
The West has done a fine job all its own to be weak. It can’t even shove a boot into the evil, fat Hungarian toad’s large mouth, let alone stand its ground of the many other dangers it faces, for instance letting a POS like Sachs freely spread mafia land’s lies and propaganda.