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Donald Trump ran as a peace candidate. He was going to end the Biden administration's disastrous

war in Ukraine and he was going to bring peace to the Middle

East. And for the past seven months, he's been trying to do just that. We're getting a lot closer,

but we're not quite there. Why? Well, says Professor Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia, who has been

watching carefully and speaking to many people involved, because the Intel agencies aren't on board at all. So almost three years ago, you got bounced off of Morning Joe after many years,

basically shunned by the entire world that you occupied and had occupied for decades,

simply for saying, hey, maybe the war in Ukraine is not a good idea. So it's been a number of years

since that happened. And I wonder if you have thought about or answered the question,

why is the Ukraine war so central to the people in charge of our society?

Like what is it about that that creates this very intense attachment?

They'd like exile you for disagreeing over it.

Well, let me start with the basic point.

The war is not a good idea and it could have ended three years ago.

This is yet another of the tragedies of the Ukraine war.

On April 15, 2022, there was a draft agreement between Ukraine and Russia to end the war. The United

States swooped in, told the Ukrainians don't do it, keep fighting, and three years on

Ukraine has lost perhaps more than a million young people to death and serious injury.

It has lost territory. It has had the country destroyed. It has had its economy brought to ruins.

Nothing of the last three years has been any help whatsoever to Ukraine.

So when I said three years ago, I also said it five years ago and before even Russia's

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