Professor Jeffrey Sachs

The American Path to Nuclear Armageddon.

In the following interview with Professor Jeffrey Sachs we analyze the geopolitical reasons, some call it the grand chess game, for the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Professor Sachs is a renowned Economist from the Columbia University and Director of the center for sustainable development, who has, one way or another, truly left his mark on history as you will find out in a moment.

Welcome to the SaltCubeAnalytics Podcast/Interview series where Thomas S. Karat chats with the world’s leading subject matter experts and thought leaders about their areas of expertise related to human behavior and behavior analysis, deception detection, manipulation, influence and persuasion.

Timestamps:
00:00 Ukraine, the path to a nuclear Armageddon.
05:18 Jeffrey Sachs and Yeltsin in the Kremlin
07:43 Books
08:46 The ‘unprovoked’ war in Ukraine
10:00 What it means to cooperate
14:50 Lessons from Cuba
16:50 The Monroe Doctrine
18:15 Voices silenced
22:30 Nord Stream pipeline sabotage, who did it?
28:30 The shelling of Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant
34:50 How one person prevented nuclear war
36:36 Why is Ukraine important for Russia and the USA
41:22 NATO expansion and its consequences
44:30 NATO and what was promised to Gorbachev
46:45 Ukraine and Georgia to join NATO
48:30 Putin’s views
52:10 Illegal wars according to international law
52:55 US involvement in the Maidan revolution
58:50 The economic downfall of Russia under Yeltsin
1:03:40 BRICS and the fall of the petrodollar
1:09:00 Noam Chomsky and Professor Mearsheimer
1:12:55 Debriefing

For more information about Professor Sachs visit his website:

[dinnerwithfranklin]

Got here from the abridged version. I'm glad I made the trip. Thank you Thomas.

[lt]

Thank you to Prof.Sachs for telling the truth and to Mr.Karat for putting the time and effort into creating this great video!

[andreyyukhanaev]

Absolutely amazing discussion based on factual and critical analysis! Well done to the authors for boldness and fastidious efforts to establish objectivity in such controversial era of information distortion!

[nadineL]

Free ebook by Cdn professor: The Authoritarians
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[nadineL]

Thomas. .. great interview. Btw sometimes yr mic drops in and out. Good job here.
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[nobbynobbs]

This guy is on Putin's payroll right?