Jeffrey Sachs

these two leaders very easily, unfortunately.

So I'm not extremely optimistic about what's going to happen.

That's essentially correct, except for a couple of important considerations.

One is that Iran has suffered very heavily by this attack.

Let's start by recalling the 160 schoolgirls killed on the first day

by apparently Palantir's AI system.

Well, like we find out every day when we're looking at our screen, this is an AI, it can make mistakes.

Well, apparently Palantir's mistake was to kill 160 innocent schoolgirls.

This is not...

definitively known, but it's what is being widely reported.

So we will perhaps someday find out what really happened.

Iran has lost thousands of people.

Iran has been devastated, tens of billions of dollars of damages that will take years and years basically to recover.

For me as a development economist whose whole

career over half a century is to try to build things.

I don't like to see things knocked down this way.

The mindlessness of it, the cruelty of it, the brazen destruction, the glorification of this violence by Hegseth and others, I find completely, completely, totally repulsive.

So first, Iran has suffered a lot.

There's no glory in the off-ramp.

There's just continued bereavement, people still being buried, deaths, deprivation, suffering.