When one mentions Zbigniew Brzezinski, it is like advancing the concept that the devil is a great proponent of Christianity because it gives him (the devil is male, transgender or female — depending on your bent) more material to work with.

So what about good old professor Jeffrey Sachs? This is a case of understanding the game being played.... and it appears Jeffrey Sachs realised he had been played like a pawn on the grand chessboard of geopolitics...

Here we go:

Jeffrey Sachs: “It all started 170 years ago, when Britain wanted to surround the Russian Empire and deprive it of its status as a great power in the Black Sea region and prevent it from having access to the Black Sea, and this policy was continued by Brzezinski.”

Fact-check: The Crimean War was started by the Russian Empire because of its adventurous dream of capturing the Bosporus and the Dardanelles. To this end, Russia even at one point sought to enter into an alliance with Great Britain. But when the Russian Empire invaded Moldova, it started a war against the Ottoman Empire and, by extension, its allies France and Britain.

Moreover, the victors in this war did not claim any of the Russian Empire’s ports on the Black Sea. They returned all the cities captured in Crimea to the tsar. This would be a strange way to “surround” the Russian Empire and limit its influence in the Black Sea region. In addition, no one planned to strengthen the Ottoman Empire at Russia’s expense.

Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security advisor to U.S. President Jimmy Carter, in his books “The Grand Chessboard” and “A Strategic View: America and the Global Crisis,” promoted a different strategy for Russia by involving it in global economic cooperation.

BULLSHIT FACK-CHECKING…. Zbigniew Brzezinski WAS THE DEVIL INCARNATE… He was playing the game of “AMERICA OWNS THE WORLD”. Full stop…

So, WHY did the the victors in this Crimean War not claim any of the Russian Empire’s ports on the Black Sea.? Why did they return all the cities captured in Crimea to the tsar? GOOD QUESTION… Global economic cooperation???? Not on your nelly....

Don’t laugh…..

On a different scale and timeframe, why did BUSH SENIOR, President of the United States of America, leave Saddam Hussein in power in Iraq after having defeated the guy in 1991?…

There is a nefarious Empire-intent in both decisions. For the Crimean War, The Europeans knew the Ottoman Empire was not to be trusted and would turn against them soon enough. They had to keep Russia as an ally... WW1 as exhibit A (Gallipoli and all that…).

In regard to Saddam Hussein, despite having been given a dubious orange light to invade Kuwait, he, a Sunni, was ruling Iraq which had a predominantly Shia population. Taking Saddam out and have “democracy” in Iraq, would align that country with Iran — something the Americans would hate! After the second Iraq war in 2003, the Americans have had to play various deceitful tricks, including building the world biggest US embassy in Baghdad with 20,000 staff or so — and keeping a few American bases in that country, some used "to fight al Qaeda and Isis", then used to help al Qaeda and Isis to ransack Syria, as soon as recently… 

So history is not as it seems if one knows the game has no rules...

For example, Dr. David Hoffmann tells us without fear of being completely wrong — which he is:

Zelenskyy and other politicians began to openly criticize the Minsk II Accords, and to say that they were not going to grant autonomy to eastern Ukraine. And it was at this point that Putin decided to take matters into his own hands. So what accounts for Putin's decision to invade Russia? Or I'm sorry, invade Ukraine. We've heard many explanations for this. So let me just consider them one at a time. One thing we hear quite often is that Putin is crazy, he's a madman, he's come unhinged. I think the truth, in some ways, is much worse. I think Putin is perfectly sane. He's simply willing to invade another country, kill thousands of people, all to achieve his geopolitical goals. As I've shown in this talk already, Putin has used military aggression multiple times in the past. This is not a case of him suddenly coming unhinged, and deciding to invade Ukraine. Another explanation. This is the one that we hear from Putin and the Russian government is that this invasion of Ukraine is in order to protect Russian-speaking Ukrainians from Neo-Nazis in Ukraine. Well, this is clearly just Russian propaganda. First of all, the Ukrainian government is not run by Neo-Nazis. As many have pointed out, President Zelenskyy himself is Jewish, he had ancestors who were killed in the Holocaust, there's no way this can be construed as a Neo-Nazi government.

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Secondly, this idea that the Russian military is protecting Russian-speaking Ukrainians in eastern Ukraine is also equally ridiculous. Russian shelling of cities there, including Kharkiv, and Mariupol, this shelling has killed thousands of Russian-speaking Ukrainians. So Putin clearly has a strange way of protecting these people if he's going to shell their apartment, buildings and kill them.

It looks like Dr. David Hoffmann has understood history by reading the fish and chips wrapper from the Murdoch and Soros empires combined…

Although I could not find any reference to it, I would suggest that David is Jewish — possibly a fan of Bibi Netanyahu… My guess.

So what about Jeffrey Sachs?

Well, at least Dr. David Hoffmann explains reasonably well:

…here’s a photo of the first presidents. In the center on the left, Boris Yeltsin, the first President of the Russian Federation, and the center on the right, Leonid Kravchuk, the first president of independent Ukraine. Following the breakup of the Soviet Union, the newly independent countries had to undergo a transition to post-communism. And this involves replacing a state run planned economy with a free market economy. The transition was very difficult. It involved a lot of economic hardship in all of the former Soviet republics, all the Soviet successor states, including in Ukraine. Here, I'm going to focus mainly on the economic transition in Russia, because I want to explain Putin's rise to power. And let me say here at the outset, explaining this does not mean validating it. I think that, on the contrary, Russians had a real opportunity after the collapse of communism in 1991 to achieve a real democratic system. Instead, they ended up with a brutal autocrat in the person of Vladimir Putin. So this requires some historical explanation of why that happens. So Boris Yeltsin, the first President of the Russian Federation, decided to pursue a quick transition to capitalism. Taking the advice of Jeffrey Sachs and other U.S. economic advisers, he instituted a policy known as shock therapy. Shock therapy involved the immediate freeing of prices, which resulted in hyperinflation in Russia. Prices began to increase at a rate of 200% a month, in other words, over 2,000% a year. As a result, people's life savings became almost worthless overnight. For Russians, this was an extremely difficult time, remembered as a time when people simply lost everything in the transition to capitalism. Shock therapy also involved privatization, the rapid sell-off of state enterprises.

This was done with no legal safeguards, with no regard to equity in terms of distribution of wealth. Instead, the advice of U.S. economists was simply to do this as quickly as possible, with no regard to the social consequences.

And as a result, there was a great deal of corruption, a handful of oligarchs became extremely wealthy. Average Russians saw their standard of living fall sharply, many people were forced to sell their possessions on the street, simply to make money for food. This picture here shows a sight that was very common in Russian cities in the early 1990s. As a result of shock therapy, Russian GDP declined by 50%. It fell roughly in half during the 1990s.

The good professor Jeffrey Sachs, may have understood (a bit late mind you) he had been played like a pawn… A clever pawn, who soon discovered the way to become a honest bishop for the opposite team…

Traitor? 

No. Despite what The Hill’s OLEG DUNDA says (or "Fact-Checks" [bullshit]) one has to remember that Napoleon blah blah blah and the English then blah blah blah versus RUSSIA in the early 19th century, with various outcomes…

AND OF ALL THINGS, ONE CANNOT PASS THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION OF 1917, which has infected the American psyche with a desire to DESTROY RUSSIA, NO MATTER WHAT… ever since —

So, Putin has been forced to play the game, but he has mastered the chessboard with the help of China and India and Brazil and South Africa — all countries now in the angry cross-hair of a Trumpian tantrum — who is thinking of destroying Venezuela, because that country has inherited the good socialist format of helping its population…

Jeffrey Sachs is now on Team Putin, because he, as one has to, had realised, Vladimir has saved Russia, while through "Jeffrey Sachs on the surface of economic goodwill", the CIA and the oligarchs were plundering Russia into oblivion…

FROM GUS LEONISKY — HISTORIAN and CARTOONIST...

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MAKE A DEAL PRONTO BEFORE THE SHIT (WW3) HITS THE FAN:

NO NATO IN "UKRAINE" (WHAT'S LEFT OF IT)

THE DONBASS REPUBLICS ARE NOW BACK IN THE RUSSIAN FOLD — AS THEY USED TO BE PRIOR 1922. THE RUSSIANS WON'T ABANDON THESE AGAIN.

THESE WILL ALSO INCLUDE ODESSA, KHERSON AND KHARKIV.....

CRIMEA IS RUSSIAN — AS IT USED TO BE PRIOR 1954

TRANSNISTRIA TO BE PART OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION.

RESTORE THE RIGHTS OF THE RUSSIAN SPEAKING PEOPLE OF "UKRAINE" (WHAT'S LEFT OF IT)

RESTITUTE THE ORTHODOX CHURCH PROPERTIES AND RIGHTS

RELEASE THE OPPOSITION MEMBERS FROM PRISON

A MEMORANDUM OF NON-AGGRESSION BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE USA.

A MEMORANDUM OF NON-AGGRESSION BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE EU.....

EASY.

THE WEST KNOWS IT.

YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT — SINCE 2005.

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

SEE ALSO: https://rumble.com/c/c-4833304?ysclid=mhvkxsa7bl974231135

SEE ASO: https://time.com/archive/6719481/rx-for-russia-shock-therapy/