Jeffrey Sachs
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We're living at nanosecond speed.
Maybe Palantir's maven system will say, shoot.
Who knows what will happen?
But we're just lighting fuses that could
blow up everything if we choose the ramp of escalation.
And I think it will go faster than we imagine and without control.
We don't seem to have any real control in our government right now, even of basic processes.
We don't have interagency reviews.
We don't have expert intelligence that are guiding policy.
We don't have anything that is systematic.
I think in Israel, it's the same way.
When you have a cascade of crises, when missiles are at hypersonic speed and you're making decisions at, you know, with a few seconds warning or a minute or two warning of incoming missiles.
what are we doing with all of this gamble when the whole premise of this war was wrong?
And when the tactical premise that this was a one-day operation was proved wrong by the second day, why are we still facing this possibility of complete disaster?
And I have to say, I'm sorry to say it, Tucker, but
Every few days I get an email from somebody who says, I really appreciate what you say, Professor Sachs, but I do want you to know that we're in the end times and that this is all as prophesied.
And so thank you for your voice.
They're not hostile messages.
They're very nice, sweet people who say we're in the end times.
I...