Jeffrey Sachs today insulted the EU’s leaders, and Obama & Biden.
23 February 2025, by Eric Zuesse. (All of my recent articles can be seen here.)
“Jeffrey Sachs EU Parliament Explosive Speech Shakes Europe and Middle East; VIDEO GOES VIRAL!”
He tells them to their face, that they’ve all been lying to their public, regarding the war in Ukraine, and that Russia inevitably will not allow U.S. missiles to be placed in the country, Ukraine, that has the nearest-border-of-all to The Kremlin, a mere 317 miles (510 km) away from blitz-nuking Russia’s central command in The Kremlin, just as, in 1962, JFK had refused to allow the Soviet Union to place its missiles in Cuba a mere 1,131 miles away from America’s central command in Washington, DC.
He called out the lying Western ‘news’-media for their having trumpeted to their audiences uncritically their Government’s lies as-if those were or even MIGHT BE truths — NO superpower would EVER allow ANOTHER SUPERpower to do to it what the U.S. Government insists upon doing to Russia.
He condemned the war-mongering DC-beltway profiteers and agents of their country’s war-industries, because they (and the Governments whose lies they praise as truths) place the entire world’s future in the most severe jeopardy, of an actual WW3 resulting.
His 28-minute-long speech (this is just one excerpt; but actually it was a 54-minute-long speech, followed by a 64-minute Q&A) — delivered without any pre-written text and even without notes — SPILLED THE BEANS not ONLY to them (who already know everything he said, because they all had PARTICIPATED in it) but to the broader world public (via any news-medium that will now be reporting this — if any will); and, so, in order to make this presentation of this historic speech not only in audio and visual form, but also to read and think about (in the auto-generated youtube transcript, which I have cleaned up so as to be easier-to-read), here is that transcript:
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You always say it's not our fault,
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they're the aggressor, they're the other
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side, they're Hitler that comes up every
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two or three years whether it's Saddam
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Hussein whether it's Assad whether it's
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Putin, That's very
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convenient, that's the only foreign
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policy explanation the American people
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are ever given
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anywhere. Well, we're facing Munich 1930;
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well we're facing Munich 1938, can't talk
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to the other side, they're evil,
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implacable
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foes. That's the only model of foreign
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policy we ever hear from our mass media,
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and the mass media repeats it entirely,
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because it's completely suborned by the
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US
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government. Now, in
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2014, the
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US worked actively to overthrow
1:02
Yanukovich; everybody knows the intercepted
1:05
call by my Columbia
1:07
University colleague Victoria
1:10
Nuland and the US ambassador Peter [actually Geoffrey]
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Pyatt — [now he plays the recording:] “can't remember if I told you this or
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if I only told Washington this, that when
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I talked to Jeff Feltman this morning, he
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had a new name for the U.N. guy, Robert
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Serry, did I write you that, this morning?
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Yeah. I saw that he's now gotten both
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Serry and Ban ki-Moon to agree that Serry
1:32
could come in Monday or Tuesday.
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That would be great, I think to help glue
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this thing, and to have the U.N. help glue it,
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and, you know: fuck the EU.”
[Here, Pyatt interjected:] “No, exactly, and
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I think we've got to do something to
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make it stick together because you can
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be pretty sure that if it does if it
1:49
does start to gain altitude, the Russians
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will be working behind the scenes to try
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to torpedo it.” [END OF THAT RECORDING.] You don't get better
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evidence. The Russians intercepted her
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call and put it on the internet. Listen
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to it. It's
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fascinating. I know all these
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people, by the way. By doing that [in the Obama Administration], they all
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got promoted in the Biden
2:12
Administration. That's the job. Now, when
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the Maidan occurred, I was called
2:20
immediately — “Oh, Professor Sachs, the new
2:23
Ukrainian prime minister would like to
2:25
see you to talk about the economic
2:28
crisis,”
2:30
because I'm pretty good at
2:32
that. And so I flew to
2:35
Kiev, and I was walked around the
2:38
Maidan, and I was told how the U.S. paid
2:42
the money for all the people around the
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Maidan —
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‘spontaneous revolution of
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dignity’, Ladies and Gentlemen.
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Please, where do all these media Outlets
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come from where does all this
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organization come from, where do all
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these buses come from, where do all these
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people called in come from? Are you
3:07
kidding? This is organized
3:12
effort,
3:14
and it's not a
3:17
secret except to citizens of Europe and
3:21
the United States. Everyone else
3:23
understands it quite
3:26
clearly. Then came Minsk
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and especially Minsk
3:32
2 — which, by the way, was modeled on South
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Teheran
3:38
autonomy — and the Belgians could have
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related to Minsk 2 very well. It said there
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should be autonomy for the Russian
3:48
speaking regions in the east of
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Ukraine. It was supported unanimously by
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the U.N. Security
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Council. The United States
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and Ukraine decided it was not to be
4:04
enforced. Germany and France, which were
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the guarantors of the Normandy
4:10
process, let it
4:13
go, and it was absolutely another direct
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American unipolar action with Europe as
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usual playing a
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completely useless subsidiary role even
4:29
though it was a the guarantor of the
4:32
agreement. Trump one [first-term] raised the
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armaments. There were many thousands of
4:40
deaths in the shelling by Ukraine in the
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Donbass. There was no Minsk 2
4:47
agreement. And then, Biden came into
4:50
office, and, again, I know all these people.
4:54
I used to be a member of the Democratic
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Party. I now am
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strictly sworn to be a member of no
5:04
party, because both are the same
5:08
anyway, and because this is I the
5:12
Democrats [who’ve] become complete warmongers
5:14
over time, and there not was not one
5:18
voice about peace, just like most of your
5:22
parliamentarians the same
5:25
way. So, at the end of 1991,
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Putin put on the table a last effort in
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two security agreement drafts, one with
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Europe and one with the United States.
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the U.S. [one was] put on the table December
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15th in
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2021. I had an hour call with Jake
5:51
Sullivan in the White House,
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begging Jake, avoid the
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war, you can avoid the war. All you
6:01
have to do is say NATO will not enlarge
6:04
to
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Ukraine. And he said to me, oh, NATO's not
6:09
going to enlarge to Ukraine, don't worry
6:11
about it. I said, Jake, say it publicly. No
6:16
no no we can't say it publicly. Say, Jake,
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you're going to have a war over
6:22
something that isn't even going to
6:24
happen? He said don't worry Jeff, there
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will be no war.
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These are not very bright
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people I'm telling you. If I can give you
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my honest view they're not very bright
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people and I dealt with them for more
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than 40
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years. They talk to themselves, they don't
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talk to anybody else. They play game
6:49
theory in non-cooperative Game Theory:
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you don't talk to the other side, you
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just make your
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strategy. This is the essence of Game
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Theory.
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It's not negotiation Theory. iI's not
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peacemaking
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Theory. It is unilateral
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non-cooperative theory. If you know
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formal Game Theory, that's what they play.
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It started at the Rand Corporation.
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That's what they still play. In 2019,
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there's a paper by Rand, How do we
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extend Russia, do you know they wrote a paper,
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which Biden followed. How do we annoy
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Russia — that’s literally the strategy — how
7:35
do we annoy Russia — we’re trying to
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provoke it, trying to make it break apart,
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maybe have regime change, maybe have
7:42
unrest, maybe have economic
7:45
crisis. That's what you call your
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ally. Are you
7:53
[Music]
7:54
kidding? So, I had a long and frustrating
7:59
phone call with
8:01
Sullivan. I was standing out in the freezing
8:04
cold. I happened to be trying to have a
8:08
ski
8:09
day, and there I was. Jake don't have the
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war! Oh, there'll be no war,
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Jeff. We know a lot of what happened the
8:19
next month, which is that they refuse to
8:24
negotiate. The stupidest idea of NATO is
8:28
the so-called Open Door
8:30
policy. Are you kidding? NATO reserves the
8:34
right to go where it wants without any
8:38
neighbor having any say
8:41
whatsoever. Well, I tell the Mexicans and
8:44
the Canadians, don't try it. You
8:48
know Trump may want to take over Canada,
8:52
so Canada could say to China why don't
8:54
you build a military base uh in uh in in
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Ontario?
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I wouldn't advise
9:02
it, and the United States would not say,
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Well, it's an open door, that's their
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business. I mean they can do what they
9:09
want that's not our
9:11
business. But grown-ups in Europe repeat
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this in Europe, in your Commission your
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High
9:22
Representative. This is nonsense stuff.
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This is not even baby geopolitics.
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This is just not thinking at
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all. So, the war started, What was Putin's
9:37
intention in the war? I can tell you what
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his intention was. It was to force
9:45
Zelensky to
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negotiate
9:49
neutrality, and that happened within 7
9:53
days of the start of the
9:56
invasion. You should understand this, not
10:00
the propaganda that's written about this.
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Oh, that they failed, and he was going to
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take over
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Ukraine. Come on, Ladies and
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Gentlemen. Understand something — [the]
10:11
basic the idea was to keep NATO — and what
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is NATO it's the United
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States — off of Russia's
10:21
border, no more no
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less. I should add one very important
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point.
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Why are they so interested? First because
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if China or Russia decided to have a
10:37
military base on the Rio Grand or in uh
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the Canadian border not only will the
10:44
United States freak out we'd have War
10:47
within about 10
10:49
minutes. But because the United States
10:52
unilaterally abandoned the
10:54
anti-ballistic missile treaty in 2002
10:58
and ended the nuclear arms control
11:01
framework by doing
11:03
so — and this is extremely important to
11:07
understand — the nuclear arms control
11:10
framework is based on trying to block a
11:13
first
11:14
strike. The ABM Treaty was a critical
11:18
component of that the US unilaterally
11:20
walked out of the ABM Treaty in
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2002. It blew a Russian gasket, so
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everything I've been describing is in
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the context of the destruction of the
11:31
nuclear framework as well. And starting
11:34
in 2010, the US put in Aegis-Ashore missile
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systems in Poland and then in
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Romania, and Russia doesn't like that, and
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one of the issues on the table in
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December and January, December 2021
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January 2022, was does the United States
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claim the right to put missile systems
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in Ukraine, and Blinken told Lavrovn in
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January 2022: the United States reserves
12:04
the right to put missile missile systems
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wherever it
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. That's
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your putative
12:15
ally. And now let's put intermediate
12:18
missile systems back in Germany. The
12:20
United States walked out of the INF
12:22
treaty unilaterally in 2019. There is no
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nuclear arms framework right now,
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none. When Zelensky said in seven days
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let's
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negotiate, I know the details of
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this
12:43
exquisitly, because I've talked to all
12:47
the parties in
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detail. Within a couple of weeks there
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was a document
12:54
exchanged that President Putin had
12:56
approved that Lavro had presented,
12:59
that was being managed by the Turkish
13:02
mediators. I flew to Ankara to listen in
13:06
detail to what the mediators were
13:10
doing. Ukraine walked away unilaterally
13:14
from a near
13:17
agreement. Why? Because the United States
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told them
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to. Because the
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UK added icing to the cake by having
13:30
BoJo go in early
13:33
April to Ukraine and explain, and he has
13:38
recently, and if your security is in the
13:41
hands of Boris Johnson, God help us
13:44
all. Keir Starmer turns out to be even
13:47
worse. It's
13:49
unimaginable but it is
13:54
true. Boris Johnson has explained and you
13:57
can look it up
14:00
on the website that what's at stake here
14:03
is Western
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hegemony, not Ukraine. Western
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hegemony. And I met at the Vatican
14:14
with a group in the spring of
14:17
2022 where we wrote a document
14:21
explaining nothing good can come out of
14:23
this war for Ukraine — negotiate now —
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because anything that takes time will
14:28
mean
14:29
massive amounts of deaths, risk of
14:32
nuclear escalation, and likely loss of
14:37
the
14:38
war. I wouldn't change one word from what
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we wrote then. Nothing was wrong in that
14:44
document, and since that document, since
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the U.S. talked the negotiators away from
14:50
the
14:51
table, about a million Ukrainians have
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died or been severely
14:57
wounded, and the American Senators who
15:00
are as nasty and cynical and corrupt as
15:06
imaginable, say this is wonderful
15:08
expenditure of our money because no
15:10
Americans are
15:12
dying. It's the pure proxy war, one of our
15:16
Senators nearby me, uh,
15:19
Blumenthal, says this out
15:22
loud. Mitt Romney says this out loud. It's
15:26
best money America can spend — no Americans
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are
15:30
dying. It's
15:33
unreal. Now, just to bring us up to
15:39
yesterday, this failed, this project
15:43
failed, the idea of the project, was that
15:46
Russia would fold its
15:48
hand, the idea all along was Russia can't
15:52
resist as Zbigniew Brzezinski explained in
15:57
1997, the Americans, we have the upper
16:00
hand, we're going to win because we're
16:04
going to bluff them, they're not really
16:06
going to fight, they're not really going
16:08
to
16:09
mobilize. The nuclear option of cutting
16:12
them out of
16:14
Swift that's going to do them in. The
16:18
economic sanctions — that’s going to do
16:20
them
16:22
in. The Himars, that's going to do them in.
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The attacks the F-16s.
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Honestly, I've listened to this for 70
16:34
years. I've listened to it as semi
16:37
understanding, I'd say, for about 56 years.
16:41
They speak nonsense. Every day my
16:45
country, my
16:47
government, this is so familiar to
16:50
me, completely familiar, I begged the
16:54
Ukrainians and I had a track record with
16:56
the Ukrainians. I advised the Ukrainians,
16:58
I'm not anti-Ukrainian, I am pro-ukrainian
17:01
completely. I said save your lives, save
17:04
your sovereignty, save your territory, be
17:07
neutral, don't listen to the
17:10
Americans. I repeated to them the famous
17:13
adage of Henry Kissinger that to be an
17:16
enemy of the United States is dangerous
17:19
but to be a friend is
17:22
fatal. Okay, so let me REPEAT that for
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Europe: to be an enemy of the United
17:27
States is dangerous
17:29
but to be a friend is
17:32
fatal. The idea all along was Russia
17:35
can't resist as Zbigniew Brzezinski explained
17:39
in
17:40
1997. The Americans thought we have the
17:43
upper
17:44
hand, we're going to win because we're
17:47
going to bluff them, they're not really
17:50
going to fight. They're not really going
17:52
to
17:53
mobilize the nuclear option of cutting
17:56
them out of Swift,
17:59
that's going to do them in. The economic
18:02
sanctions that's going to do them
18:06
in. The Himars that's going to do them in.
18:09
The ATACMS the
18:14
F-16s. Honestly, I've listened to this for
18:17
70 years. I've listened to it as semi
18:21
understanding I'd say for about 56 years.
18:25
They speak nonsense every day. My
18:29
country, my
18:31
government, this is so familiar to
18:34
me. Completely familiar. I begged the
18:38
Ukrainians and I had a track record with
18:40
the Ukrainians. I advised the Ukrainians,
18:42
I'm not anti-Ukrainian I'm Pro Ukrainian
18:45
completely. I said save your lives save
18:48
your sovereignty save your territory be
18:51
neutral don't listen to the
18:53
Americans I repeated to them the famous
18:57
adage of Henry messenger that to be an
19:00
enemy of the United States is dangerous
19:03
but to be a friend is
19:06
fatal okay so let me repeat that for
19:09
Europe: to be an enemy of the United
19:11
States is dangerous but to be a friend
19:14
is
19:17
fatal. So, let me now finalize a few words
19:22
about
19:26
Trump. Trump does not want the losing
19:31
hand. This is
19:34
why it is more likely than not this war
19:37
will
19:39
end, because Trump and President Putin
19:43
will agree to end the
19:45
war. If Europe does all its great
19:50
warmongering, it doesn't matter. The war
19:53
is
19:54
ending, so get it out of your system.
19:59
please tell your
20:01
colleagues it's
20:03
over, and it's over because Trump doesn't
20:08
want to carry a
20:10
loser that's — it it's not some great
20:14
morality — he doesn't want to carry a
20:17
loser. This is a
20:19
loser. The one that will be saved by the
20:22
negotiations taking place right now is
20:26
Ukraine, second is Europe, your stock
20:29
market's rising in recent Days by the
20:32
horrible news of negotiations. I know
20:36
this has been met with the sheer horror
20:38
in these
20:40
chambers, but this is the best
20:42
news that you could
20:45
get now. I
20:47
encouraged — they don't listen to me but I
20:51
tried — to reach out to some of the
20:53
European leaders. Most don't want to hear
20:56
anything from me at all,
20:59
but I
21:01
said don't go to
21:03
Kiev, go to
21:06
Moscow, discuss with your
21:09
counterparts — are you kidding? You're
21:11
Europe, you're 450 million people, your 20
21:16
trillion euro
21:17
economy, you should be the main economic
21:22
trading partner of Russia — it's natural!
21:26
Links,
21:28
by the way, if anyone would like to
21:31
discuss how the U.S. blew up Nordstream,
21:33
I'd be happy to talk about
21:39
that.
21:41
So, the Trump Administration is
21:45
imperialist at
21:47
heart, it is a great
21:51
Powers dominate the
21:54
world, it is we will do what we want when
21:57
we can,
21:59
we will be better than a
22:04
senecent Biden, and we'll cut our losses
22:07
where we have
22:10
to, there are several war zones in the
22:13
world, the Middle East being another, we
22:16
don't know what will happen with that.
22:18
Again, if Europe had a proper policy you
22:22
could stop that war, I'll explain
22:26
how, but war with China is also a
22:32
possibility [that Trump is considering], so I'm not saying that we're
22:35
at the new age of
22:38
peace but we are in a
22:42
uh very uh different kind of politics
22:47
right
22:47
now, and Europe should have a foreign
22:51
policy, and not just a foreign policy of
22:55
Russophobia [but] a foreign policy that is a
22:57
realistic foreign policy that
23:00
understands Russia's situation that
23:02
understands Europe's situation, that
23:04
understands what America is and what it
23:06
stands
23:07
for, that tries
23:10
to avoid Europe being invaded by the
23:13
United
23:15
States, because it's not impossible that
23:18
America will just land troops in Danish
23:23
territory. I'm not
23:25
joking, and I don't think they're joking,
23:28
and Europe needs a foreign policy, a real
23:32
one, not a yes we'll bargain with Mr
23:37
Trump and meet him
23:39
halfway, you know what that will be like.
23:43
Give me a call
23:47
afterwards. Please don't have American
23:51
officials as head of Europe, have
23:54
European
23:56
officials please
23:59
have a European foreign
24:01
policy. You're going to be living with
24:03
Russia for a long
24:04
time, so please negotiate with
24:08
Russia. There are real security issues on
24:11
the
24:12
table, but the bombast and the
24:17
Russophobia is not serving your security
24:20
at all, it's not serving Ukraine’s security
24:23
at all, and it contributed to a million
24:26
casualties in Ukraine from this
24:29
idiotic American adventure that you
24:32
signed on to and then became the lead
24:34
cheerleaders
24:36
of. Solves
24:41
nothing. On the Middle East, by the
24:45
way, the
24:47
U.S. completely handed over foreign policy
24:50
to Netanyahu 30 years ago. The Israel
24:54
Lobby dominates American politics, just
24:58
have no doubt about it. I could explain
25:02
for hours how it works, it's very
25:06
dangerous, I'm hoping that Trump will not
25:09
destroy his
25:11
administration and worse the Palestinian
25:14
people because of Netanyahu, who I regard
25:18
as a war
25:20
criminal, uh properly indicted by the
25:25
ICC, and that needs to be told know more
25:29
that there will be a state of Palestine
25:32
on the borders of the 4th of June
25:35
1967 according to international law as
25:38
the only way for peace it's the only way
25:42
for Europe to have peace on your borders
25:46
with the Middle East is the two-state
25:49
solution. There is only one obstacle to
25:52
it by the way and that is the veto of
25:55
the United States and the UN Security
25:57
Council
25:59
so if you want to have some influence
26:01
tell the United States, drop the
26:04
veto, you are together with 180 countries
26:08
in the
26:09
world. The only ones that oppose a
26:13
Palestinian state
26:15
are the United States, Israel
26:20
Micronesia Nauru
26:23
Papua New
26:25
Guinea, Mr. Malay,
26:29
and
26:32
Paraguay. So, this is a place where Europe
26:34
could have a big influence. Europe has
26:39
gone silent about the JCPOA and
26:42
Iran. Netanyahu's greatest dream in life
26:46
is a war between the United States and
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Iran. He's not given up, and it's not
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impossible that that would come
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also, and that's because the U.S. in this
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regard does not have an independent
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foreign policy — it is run by Israel. It's
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tragic, it's amazing by the
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way, and it could end. Trump may say that
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he wants foreign policy back, maybe I'm
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hoping that it's the case. Finally, let me
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just say with respect to China, China is
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not an enemy, China is just a success
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story, that's why it is viewed by the
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United States as an enemy, because China
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is a bigger economy than the United
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States that's
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[Applause]
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all. Thanks.
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[Applause]
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So, he informed and documented that the U.S. Government is destroying their countries and destroying perhaps even ultimately the entire world, and that if they have any reason at all for hope, it can come ONLY by their recognizing that Russia is one of them, and that America — as it has been ever since it started the Cold War — is NOT.
As regards the central matter, which is Ukraine, it is obvious that once Russia is included as being European (and the largest European country), Ukraine likewise will be. America is only Europe’s enemy, and Sachs documented that quite well. Anyone who wants to see lots more documentation of what he said about the war in Ukraine, can see that here.
PS: If you like this article, please email it to all your friends or otherwise let others know about it. None of the U.S.-and-allied ‘news’-media will likely publish it (nor link to it, since doing that might also hurt them with Google or etc.). I am not asking for money, but I am asking my readers to spread my articles far and wide, because I specialize in documenting what the Deep State is constantly hiding — what the ‘news’-media ignore if they can, and deny if they must. This is, in fact, today’s samizdat.
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.
Jeffrey Sachs is an honest, intelligent, and brave American. I always listen to what he has to say.
May I suggest that those who crafted the narrative /knew/ its falsity and its capacity to provoke World War III and ultimately, thermonuclear holocaust.
Those responsible must be prosecuted for these very grave crimes.