For a long time, some powerful people in Washington, D.C., have been worried about Russia’s military strength. However, there’s another side to the story that isn’t often talked about: the big financial institutions in the West want the conflict in Ukraine to keep going because they stand to make a lot of money from it.

A former diplomat named Andrii Telizhenko, who used to work in Ukraine’s government but left because he opposed the war, recently shared his views on a program called "Th...