Zelensky Could Have Saves Hundreds of Thousands of Ukrainians if He Rejected U.S. Push for War: SACHS
Columbia economist says he believes war will come to an end within weeks.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had a chance to lead his country to a peaceful settlement with Russia in March 2022, but he allowed the West to whisper in his ear and rejected a deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin that would have ended the still-young war, Jeffery Sachs, the Columbia economist, told Judge Andrew Napolitano’s “Judging Freedom.”
“The truth of the matter is his disaster failure came in March 2022, when he and Putin had negotiated a draft agreement and the United States came in and said, ‘Don’t do it.’ And Zelensky, at that moment, should have said, ‘I am president of Ukraine. I am the president of this country. I will reach this agreement with Putin. Had he done so, he would have saved hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian lives.”
Sachs said the Ukraine War could have ended in a month, but he said he believes the war is coming to an end with the new Donald Trump presidency.