Economist Sacks says the US should have ignored Russia's warnings about NATO

"President Putin has been repeating for years: 'Don't drag NATO to the Black Sea, Ukraine and Georgia.'

Moscow warned: "Don't surround us, don't threaten us, let's make a deal."

But Washington rejected these calls, ”RIA Novosti quotes him as saying on the air of the Democracy Now! TV show.

Sachs noted that the US has been pursuing such a policy for more than three decades.

The result of this behavior was the complete militarization of American foreign policy.

Earlier, The Guardian newspaper reported that the US authorities did not pay attention to the warnings of William Burns, who now serves as director of the CIA, about the consequences of Ukraine's possible entry into NATO.