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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
ah the nato expansion yes
im more of a reader because video takes too long to make a point, although i saw the entire oliver stone interview with putin, in however many parts it took
anyway here is sachs in writing:
https://www.jeffsachs.org/newspaperx...jr4wf6aayhrszm
the nato thing is a bigger thing than biden altogether, and sachs is not the ultimate authority on it. he is/was an economist focused on development, pushing for foreign aid and a pal of bono... anyway this is neither here nor there, but if youre into conservatism, watch a betsy devos sponsored documentary about how foreign aid ruined haiti... eta POVERTY INC. https://www.povertyinc.org/
but anyway here i offer for your and tulsi's and tesla's paranoia the counterargument of our reptilian alien overlords:
https://www.cfr.org/expert-brief/wha...y-want-ukraine
im not saying this one or that one is transcendentally or absolutely "right," it's just that in this case of empire vs empire i think i know who are my teammates in the end. for communists, the bourgeoisie is the real enemy everywhere. me, i prefer my bourgeoisie warts and all. so maybe i'm the sheeple, as one can never knows for sure for whom one works, but eh... |
If you're simply gonna dismiss US's ambition to power and to retain power as paranoia, I don't think there's much we can discuss further on this topic. Thanks for the wikipedia abstract on Jeff Sachs.
But If you are willing to bare the slowness as you put it (there's a playback speed button btw), this is a good conversation with Sachs and John Mearsheimer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvFtyDy_Bt0
They do go on a little bit on something you touched before - "standing up to tyranny", enforcing democracy and state building.