31 August 2022
https://youtu.be/wmOePNsNFw0
Totally brilliant intervention from Jeffrey Sachs. I've been following him for a long while. He may not be the world's most entertaining speaker, but he is certainly the most mature and accurate.
Yea I'd like to comment further.
It is desperately important that Europe work on its independence and get out from under these American meatballs.
A "Europe 2049" would be appropriate.
Russia may have invaded Ukraine, but the war was caused by America - hardly "unprovoked"! America takes us for fools. I will say below why America is doing this.
Look up the broken promises from 1991 promising Russia's near abroad would remain neutral, through to Minsk in 2015 respect for a certain autonomy in the east of Ukraine. After all, this is New Russia built by Catherine back in the 18th century.
Look at the Catholic Polish-Lithuanian Slavs in the West, shelling the Orthodox Russian Slavs in the East. It's just hatred from Kiev, simple barbaric hatred.
America feeding in weapons from 2015.
Shelling high intensity 2021, reaching a crescendo in Jan/Feb 2022.
Causes are with America. Effects with Europe. 1. America & Europe will be defeated militarily by Russia in this proxy war. 2. The sanctions are killing the European economies, never mind America's, and 3. the West is getting well-alienated from the global South.
And all for what?
America has said its aim is to weaken Russia and preferably regime change in Moscow. America would rather go down with the planet than risk losing its place as global hegemon - that's the reason: it's American Alpha-male security concerns. So dumb. America knows only conflict, doesn't do cooperation, it shoots from the hip and Ukraine will be a far greater disaster and humiliation than was Vietnam and Iraq and all the other failures of American adventures in foreign policy .
The consequences will hopefully not be a nuclear war, but certainly there will be a split between the global North and the global South and the death of the dollar as the world's reserve currency, and a lot more insecurity and poverty. That matters to me, because I don't want some alien culture taking over Europe's foreign policy space, my culture.
Europe needs a plan to boot out or reform these savages - maybe "Europe 2049" would be a good heading under which to work towards our independence.
