Professor Jeffrey Sachs is the ultimate insider and ultimate authority on the origins and history of the Ukraine war. He was an economic advisor to Mikhail Gorbachev in the immediate post-communist period, as well as an advisor to the first president of an independent Ukraine. In the following short (20 min) video, Sachs can tell you more about the beginning of that war than you can get in a year of reading the New York Times and the Washington Post, or watching MSNBC and CNN. In fact, if you’ve been relying on those sources, then you’ve been seriously misled and need to hear what he has to say.