Noted technology entrepreneur and investor David Sacks said the policy elite is “finally admitting that, like Joe Biden himself, Project Ukraine is JOEVER.”
Sacks, the general partner at venture capital firm Craft Ventues, posted on X that veteran diplomat and foreign policy advisor Richard Haass “drives a stake” through the heart of “maximalist Ukrainian objectives” with his comments on an episode of “Morning Joe” earlier this week:
On Morning Joe, foreign policy guy @RichardHaass proposes a new US policy toward Ukraine that involves scaling back commitments to just protecting “core Ukraine,” then hoping and praying that Putin “will potentially be willing to compromise himself.” pic.twitter.com/t2uTgvrhpc
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 18, 2024
Haass was the president of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) from 2003 to 2023, and held key positions in the State Department under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, including director of policy planning and principal advisor to Secretary of State Colin Powell. He also worked as a special assistant to President George H.W. Bush and senior director for Near East and South Asian affairs on the National Security Council staff.
Sacks, in his post, specifically highlighted the following comments by Haass.
The dean of the U.S. foreign policy establishment @RichardHaass drives a stake through the heart of maximalist Ukrainian objectives:
“We have to define success in a way that is achievable at a reasonable cost. The definition of success in Ukraine cannot be, ‘we fail until…
— David Sacks (@DavidSacks) July 19, 2024
Sacks was a co-founder of PayPal, where he worked as COO. He later founded Geni, a genealogy website, and Yammer, an enterprise social network acquired by Microsoft in 2012. He has invested in numerous companies, including Facebook, Uber, and SpaceX. Sacks graduated from Stanford University with a degree in economics and from the University of Chicago Law School with a J.D.
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