Jeffrey Sachs

We bought into it for a mix of

perceived american self-interest in our global power that is israel's hegemony in the region was consistent with our desire for global control we bought into the iran story because israel's story that we got to kill them before they kill us is not inconsistent with our desire to have revenge and to control their oil in other words it's a partnership yep and it's a real partnership

But Israel's capacity to have this war that stretches now from Libya to Iran, that's an American capacity.

But we're bleeding from it.

We're bleeding from Israel's wars.

And this, I think, is really important to understand.

You know, Trump said something

quite interesting the washington gaffe meaning that he told the truth uh not off script but he said we can't afford the wars and those things like child care medicare and medicaid and other those individual things he said and you know what it's true we're bleeding

And what did he do?

He said, okay, we're gonna cut all those things that Americans actually need and want, because we want our healthcare.

We actually want to be able to have dental repairs or get medicines or see a doctor or have an operation if our lives depend on.

We want that.

And Trump said, no, we have to have war instead.

So he put in a budget a couple of weeks ago, which didn't get any attention because it won't be enacted by Congress.

But he put in a budget in which the

Military spending goes up another half a trillion dollars.

And the things like he said, you know, the health and other things, oh, we can't afford that, goes down in this budget to make people who are hurting in this country more.

they would hurt desperately more, not to mention the gas pump, not to mention everything, food prices and everything else that they are already facing from these wars, but will face cataclysmically if they don't choose the off-ramp.

So,

Can Trump say this?