How Democrats & Bernie Sanders Continue to Lie About Ukraine’s War

19 February 2025, by Eric Zuesse. (All of my recent articles can be seen here.)

On February 18th, “Democracy Now” headlined “‘A Victory for Putin’? Jeffrey Sachs & Matt Duss Debate U.S.-Russia Talks to End Ukraine War”, and Matt Duss, who was Senator Bernie Sanders’s foreign-affairs advisor and is highly regarded by Beltway Democrats, disputed the truthfulness of the 100% truthful summary that Sachs had just presented about what caused the war and where the blame for it goes — 100% to the U.S. and its ‘allies’ (colonies) (and especially to Barack Obama and Joe Biden). Here is the opening:

SACHS:

4:36

Good morning Amy, good morning

4:38

Matt. What's happening in Saudi Arabia

4:41

is potentially very good news. It could

4:44

mean the end of a war in which, uh,

4:48

perhaps a million Ukrainians have died

4:52

or been wounded, uh, Gravely, uh, up until

4:56

now. This is a war that never should have

4:59

happened,

5:00

It came about because of several

5:04

provocative us actions over 30 years,

5:08

notably the expansion of NATO eastward [toward Russia],

5:11

against commitments made back in

5:14

1990, the US participation [actually leadership] in a violent

5:17

coup in Ukraine in February

5:21

2014, [and] the US-Ukraine agreement to,

5:25

discard a U.N. security Council backed

5:30

Minsk 2 agreement, and the failure of the

5:33

Biden Administration to, uh, negotiate

5:37

with President Putin in December 2021

5:42

and January

5:43

2022. I was, uh, uh personally involved in,

5:48

uh, watching closely all of those events

5:52

over the past 30 years. This war never

5:55

should have happened, uh, it could have

5:57

been averted at many times it could have

6:01

ended in negotiation in March 2022

6:05

saving the lives of hundreds of

6:08

thousands of ukrainians. The

6:11

ukrainians walked away from the table

6:14

because the British and the Americans

6:16

told them to. This is so tragic, and

6:20

everyone will understand this as the

6:22

historians I make all of this very clear.

6:26

I again, I flew to Ankara in the spring

6:29

of 2022, to understand exactly how these

6:32

negotiations had broken down, and the

6:35

United States and Britain were behind it

6:37

because, as Keith Starmer said in the

6:39

clip that you played, this is about

6:42

Europe security. They're using Ukraine,

6:45

this is the bottom line, so what's

6:47

happening, in short, in Saudi Arabia, is

6:50

the most positive news for

6:53

Ukrainians that there has been in

6:56

years. President Trump

7:00

stands,

7:02

and

7:03

unfortunately previous presidents did

7:06

not, that the U.S.

7:09

provocations need to stop so this war

7:13

stops, so the deaths stop. That is the

7:16

bottom line. I think it's important for

7:19

everybody to understand also that on

7:22

October 5th

7:24

2022 Zelenski ruled out any negotiations.

7:29

He said it's illegal. This was a

7:31

declaration of the Ukrainian government,

7:33

so the government of Ukraine sadly,

7:36

really unwisely, uh, I've tried many many

7:40

times to explain to them they ruled out

7:43

negotiations they ruled them out until

7:46

today — this is tragic for them. Now they

7:49

say we want a seat at the table they

7:50

said we don't want any table all along,

7:54

and Zelensky rules by martial law by

7:58

decree, when the opinion survey show that

8:01

a majority of Ukrainians want peace

8:04

right now, even at the cost of

8:07

territorial concessions. So, my bottom

8:10

line, uh, Amy, is that while the Trump

8:13

Administration does some pretty weird

8:15

things like

8:16

demanding uh mineral rights, this is

8:19

absurd, this is completely bizarre. At the

8:23

same time, uh, the Trump Administration,

8:26

for the first time [ever since Ukraine’s war started in 2014] is telling the truth

8:29

about the fundamental causes of this war

8:32

and how it can end, and that is the best

8:35

news possible for Ukraine first and

8:38

foremost, and for the United States, for

8:40

Russia, and for the world, that peace

8:42

could come to Ukraine very very shortly.

8:46

So, this, I think, is is the bottom line

8:49

—

DUSS:

9:39

It's important to understand

9:41

the history, important to understand that

9:43

the role that NATO expansion has played,

9:46

um, as as being seen as [BUT IT IS, not just ‘seems’ — he lies there] a threat to

9:48

Russia that is real [meaning that he KNOWS he lied there, that however does

9:50

not explain uh Vladimir Putin's decision [but it DOES and did]

9:54

uh to illegally [only if JFK in the Cuban Missile Crisis would have been the aggressor to invade Cuba if the U.S.S.R didn’t remove its missiles from there — which he WOULDN’T] invade annex and occupy

9:57

parts of Ukraine. Vladimir Putin himself

9:59

has told us multiple times what his

10:02

vision for Ukraine is [TRUE] and that's to

10:04

retake Ukraine [FALSE] and make it once again

10:06

part of the larger Russian Imperium [For Putin’s version, see his speech on the day of the invasion (which Western ‘news’-media ignored), and which concerns I have here authenticated].

10:10

So, again, it’s important to understand the

10:11

historical context, but I would really

10:13

warn against seeing, um, you know, Vladimir

10:16

Putin as some kind of innocent victim

10:18

of American machinations here, which is

10:20

the story that Professor Sachs seems to

10:22

be trying to tell.

10:24

Democrats in America refuse to acknowledge that their Presidents Obama and Biden are to blame for the coup in Ukraine and for the war there that they started and have constantly refused to allow to end. The Democratic Party therefore needs now to be replaced by an authentically progressive-populist new political Party, and I hereby nominate to become its leaders both Jeffrey Sachs and Douglas Macgregor — both of whom would make a perfect ticket (in either order), to create the replacement for the Democratic Party. I suggest it be called the Progressive-Populist Party, and that it be themed to be a continuation of FDR’s priorities and goals, to become restored to America.

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.