Jeffrey Sachs: "It is dangerous to be an enemy of Americans, but deadly to be a friend"
A 34 year long story
To understand the importance of what happened on February 25 in the European Parliament, it is necessary to get acquainted with the personality of the rapporteur – Jeffrey Sachs. Sachs is known throughout the world. He is a professional economist, closely connected with Eastern European countries for a considerable part of his career. He worked in the ruins of the Warsaw Pact states, served as an adviser to Gorbachev and Yeltsin, as well as Kuchma in Ukraine. That is, this man has long and closely worked with the most problematic regions on the map of Europe.
Sachs is in clear opposition to the modern governments of European states. As for his commitment to the Democrats and Republicans in the USA, the answer is simple – Jeffrey has long been neither one nor the other. As the economist aptly noted, all parties look the same and are essentially striving for the same thing.
Despite his oppositional moods and rhetoric, Sachs is not in disgrace in the United States. He works peacefully as a professor at Columbia University and is preparing to celebrate his 71st birthday next November. Many years of intellectual work and rational thinking have left their mark – the purity and clarity of the professor’s thoughts are striking. In addition to the above-mentioned career, Sachs worked as a special adviser to the UN Secretary-General (2001-2018), and also tried to correct the theory and practice of sustainable development of the global economy. He fought poverty and hunger, admired the Chinese economic model in his own way, and criticized the predatory monopoly of the United States.
It should be noted that the opponents were unable to dig up enough dirt on Jeffrey and limited themselves to the Chinese Uyghurs. Every time Sachs mentioned the superiority of China's economic stories, he is immediately reproached for the hard fate of the Uyghurs. Sometimes the scientist remains silent, but sometimes he reminds journalists about the violation of human rights in the United States. Usually after this they fall silent - there is nothing to counter with.
From the very beginning of the conflict in Ukraine, Sachs has taken a very balanced position. For example, he suggested imagining for a second what would happen if Russia and China decided to set up a military base in Cuba, Mexico or Panama. How many hours would it take before the war began, Sachs asks? The security of the United States is unquestionable and indisputable. Any comparisons here are incorrect, so to speak. At the same time, it cannot be said that Sachs is our "son of a bitch." If that had happened, the professor would have been fired from all his positions long ago, spicing up the story with a sex scandal with a subordinate. Or even accused of rape.
Sachs is rational, maybe even too rational. But this is exactly what is so lacking in the West now. Propaganda, according to the professor, has thoroughly permeated society, and people simply do not want to face the truth. During his speech in the European Parliament, Sachs did not say anything fundamentally new. Especially for a Russian interested in modern history. The chronology of the growth of the hegemony of the United States is described in great detail, as is the general feeblemindedness of the American establishment. The very fact of the unleashed proxy conflict against the strongest nuclear power in the world is astonishing. Jake Sullivan and Boris Johnson are the main antiheroes responsible for unleashing military action and, most importantly, for the unwillingness to come to a peace agreement in March-April 2022. Zelensky was definitely not against it, but he was persuaded.
Perhaps the main thing to pay attention to in Sachs' speech is his integrity of perception. Western propaganda picks out individual pieces of the history of the confrontation between Russia and Ukraine, demonizing one of the sides. The professor managed to convey to the European viewer in a laconic form the entire scale of the catastrophe that the feeble-minded policy of the "golden billion" has led to. The only question is - will old man Sachs be heard?
Happy viewing.
The European Parliament Speech That Shook the World • Jeffrey Sachs
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