What's Going on in Ukraine?

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At the beginning of this war, we were very clear that the U.S. would not get directly involved because we did not have an interest that rose to the level of a vital interest. And yet here we are eight or nine months later, and we've been going down the slippery slope. So your view then is basically we should extract and stop being so involved and essentially leave the future of Ukraine to whatever happens in the region. Well, no American president has ever asserted that the United States has a vital interest in Ukraine or any part of Ukraine. It's simply not even Biden himself at the beginning of the war made clear that we would not getting directly involved in the fighting. He

Freddie Sayers meets David Sacks.

When Elon Musk unveiled his notorious Ukraine peace proposal on Twitter last month, it caused quite the stir. For simply outlining the potential contours of a negotiated settlement between Ukraine and Russia, the new Twitter CEO was derided as a dangerous Putin apologist (despite his company Starlink providing internet to Ukraine at a cost of $20 million a month). It happens that Musk is not the only Silicon Valley mogul who has come under fire for taking a realist line on the conflict.

In fact, a friend of Musk’s, David Sacks, wrote an article in which he alleged the West had entered into “Woke War III”. Over the course of the war, the woke Left and the neoconservative Right have been marching in lockstep, and using “woke cancellation tactics” to suppress any dissenting opinions.

Sacks, a multimillionaire venture capitalist and host of the hit podcast ‘All-In’ expands on his thinking in UnHerdTV’s latest interview, recorded 26th October 2022.

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