Jeffrey Sachs

And he thought within one day he'll get the oil because just like removing Maduro from

he thinks, gave America Venezuela's oil, he thought killing the Iranian governmental leadership, starting with this religious supreme leader and then the top officials of the government that were meeting that day with the supreme leader, he would take the oil.

So that's the tableau.

This is why it's hard to take the exit ramp

Because there were reasons for this war.

To my mind, cruel, illegal, delusional.

So I don't abide by any of those reasons.

But there were reasons for this war.

And taking the off-ramp means that none of those would be fulfilled.

From my point of view, fine.

None of them was valid.

But from the point of view of the two architects of this war, Trump and Netanyahu, that's quite hard to do.

But, as I said, the alternative, which is an escalated war, within a few weeks could destroy the world economy.

There are enough reasons for drought as a natural condition of an arid and semi-arid reason that we don't have to go there.

Okay.

Yeah.

Second— In fact, I can tell you one—

One visit to Tehran, I was in the Gulf region in Saudi, and then I went to Tehran.

And in both places, this was many years ago now, there was already drought, and it was springtime, and there were intense sandstorms.

sandstorms like none of us has ever experienced if you haven't been in those places.