Jeffrey Sachs – Speech at EU Parliament

Not sure why this story links to blog spam instead of the underlying video.

Kudos to Professor Sachs for mentioning the 2014 coup in Ukraine and mentioning the role of western powers in engineering that overthrowing of the democratically elected Russia aligned government in Ukraine in 2014. That situation led to the invasion of Crimea and the current conflict. He also mentions there is an opportunity to resolve the war due to Trump. He also criticizes NATO expansionism and brings up the Minsk agreement. These are all things news outlets fail to cover.

Jeffrey Sachs makes good points sometimes, because he has a different worldview from most people. But he’s not without faults. He’s especially popular these days with two very online groups: CCP astroturfers who boost his criticisms of America and praise of the CCP, and pro Palestine anti Israel activists who boost him for sharing their views. These two topics are obsessions of his and even in this Ukraine focused video he goes to these points at the end. It’s hard for me to blindly trust his overtly anti American stance, especially when he can’t bring himself to criticize authoritarianism or terrorism.