Jeffrey Sachs
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And yes, Russia won't like it, but they're weak now so they can't resist. Later on, by the way, he came to understand.
And yes, Russia won't like it, but they're weak now so they can't resist. Later on, by the way, he came to understand.
that expanding nato to ukraine was just too far he actually did reach that understanding in 2015 but watching him in 2004 is very interesting because 2004 was the year that the decision was made and this is also something very important to understand about our foreign policy it's not
that expanding nato to ukraine was just too far he actually did reach that understanding in 2015 but watching him in 2004 is very interesting because 2004 was the year that the decision was made and this is also something very important to understand about our foreign policy it's not
that expanding nato to ukraine was just too far he actually did reach that understanding in 2015 but watching him in 2004 is very interesting because 2004 was the year that the decision was made and this is also something very important to understand about our foreign policy it's not
That a president comes in and then we have a new foreign policy and then another president, we have a new foreign policy. These things are very deeply set courses. These wars in the Middle East go back 30 years. This war against Russia.
That a president comes in and then we have a new foreign policy and then another president, we have a new foreign policy. These things are very deeply set courses. These wars in the Middle East go back 30 years. This war against Russia.
That a president comes in and then we have a new foreign policy and then another president, we have a new foreign policy. These things are very deeply set courses. These wars in the Middle East go back 30 years. This war against Russia.
actually goes back to 1945 at the end of World War II, but in the current version goes back to 1991 and by plan to 1994 when Clinton laid out the NATO enlargement. And then Brzezinski spelled it out for the public in 1997, but it was decisions already taken. So we can watch Kissinger In 1994, explaining, yeah, Russia's weak. Take advantage of them. This is the time to take advantage of them.
actually goes back to 1945 at the end of World War II, but in the current version goes back to 1991 and by plan to 1994 when Clinton laid out the NATO enlargement. And then Brzezinski spelled it out for the public in 1997, but it was decisions already taken. So we can watch Kissinger In 1994, explaining, yeah, Russia's weak. Take advantage of them. This is the time to take advantage of them.
actually goes back to 1945 at the end of World War II, but in the current version goes back to 1991 and by plan to 1994 when Clinton laid out the NATO enlargement. And then Brzezinski spelled it out for the public in 1997, but it was decisions already taken. So we can watch Kissinger In 1994, explaining, yeah, Russia's weak. Take advantage of them. This is the time to take advantage of them.
This is what gets us into such unbelievable insecurity. We could be the safest people in the world in history. No one could conceivably attack us. And yet we're 90 seconds to midnight. Do you have any expectation that will change? I'm counting on President Trump to change this. I think his instinct is right. I think his sense is right. I think he doesn't like war. I really do. No, he doesn't.
This is what gets us into such unbelievable insecurity. We could be the safest people in the world in history. No one could conceivably attack us. And yet we're 90 seconds to midnight. Do you have any expectation that will change? I'm counting on President Trump to change this. I think his instinct is right. I think his sense is right. I think he doesn't like war. I really do. No, he doesn't.
This is what gets us into such unbelievable insecurity. We could be the safest people in the world in history. No one could conceivably attack us. And yet we're 90 seconds to midnight. Do you have any expectation that will change? I'm counting on President Trump to change this. I think his instinct is right. I think his sense is right. I think he doesn't like war. I really do. No, he doesn't.
He displayed that in the first term, and he said that repeatedly now. This is the best thing we have going for us. Now, in his first term, he hired a lot of very irresponsible people. that like war or that like duplicity or that like the deep state or that like accountability, unaccountability, like John Bolton, one of my least favorites among all of these. Fair. And Trump hired them.
He displayed that in the first term, and he said that repeatedly now. This is the best thing we have going for us. Now, in his first term, he hired a lot of very irresponsible people. that like war or that like duplicity or that like the deep state or that like accountability, unaccountability, like John Bolton, one of my least favorites among all of these. Fair. And Trump hired them.
He displayed that in the first term, and he said that repeatedly now. This is the best thing we have going for us. Now, in his first term, he hired a lot of very irresponsible people. that like war or that like duplicity or that like the deep state or that like accountability, unaccountability, like John Bolton, one of my least favorites among all of these. Fair. And Trump hired them.
So the question now is probably not his deep sense which I think is absolutely right. But now his tactical sense inside the US government, please don't let the deep state continue on a path that it's been on and don't let the normal hardliners because Washington is filled with people who have been on the payroll of the military industrial complex their whole careers.
So the question now is probably not his deep sense which I think is absolutely right. But now his tactical sense inside the US government, please don't let the deep state continue on a path that it's been on and don't let the normal hardliners because Washington is filled with people who have been on the payroll of the military industrial complex their whole careers.
So the question now is probably not his deep sense which I think is absolutely right. But now his tactical sense inside the US government, please don't let the deep state continue on a path that it's been on and don't let the normal hardliners because Washington is filled with people who have been on the payroll of the military industrial complex their whole careers.