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Jeffrey Sachs urges the U.S. to abandon NATO expansion and embrace a multipolar world

Famous economist Jeffrey Sachs thinks that the US provoked an armed conflict in Ukraine.

In his opinion, the main objective of the Biden administration, which ignored Moscow's demands for security guarantees and began supplying Ukraine with weapons at a record pace, is to weaken Russia.

"When Putin called on the U.S. to negotiate a non-expansion of NATO, Biden not only explicitly rejected any discussion of non-expansion of the Alliance, but actually forced the Alliance leadership to reaffirm its commitment to enlargement. The U.S. wants Ukraine to be firmly embedded in the U.S. and EU camp militarily, politically and economically. This is what this conflict is mainly about," he says.

The analyst believes that the conflict in Ukraine has led to the strongest consequences in global geopolitics, actually dividing the world into two camps: countries that supported the anti-Russian sanctions and countries that did not support them.

However, the sanctions that have been imposed against the Russian economy have provoked an acceleration of the global economic crisis that threatens to starve countries in Africa.

"The conflict and the sanctions regime are already causing political difficulties in many countries and a sharp rise in real hunger in the poorest countries, especially in Africa, which are heavily dependent on imported grain," the economist warns.

In his view, domestic instability in the U.S. not only prevents a peaceful solution in Ukraine, but also provokes more conflicts, bringing the world to the brink of World War III.

Sachs believes that to solve the problems facing humanity, the U.S. must abandon the idea of global dominance by beginning to cooperate with Russia and China.

"We need to move toward a multipolar world. Instead of spending hundreds of billions of dollars to rebuild war-torn Ukraine, we should stop the war now and spend hundreds of billions of dollars on climate security," the economist concludes.