Jeffrey Sachs on The War in Ukraine

Jeffrey Sachs is the Director of the Center for Sustainable Development (formerly The Earth Institute) at Columbia University.

One of the main problems of the current Ukrainian tragedy is that in any military and economic scenario, the Russian government has no one and nothing to negotiate with. The obstacle is not in the absence of interest in a peaceful solution on the part of the war-fueled NATO organization , but in the fact that it is chronically incompetent. The experience of all negotiations in recent years and months is proof of their meaninglessness. 

For peace to come, the war must become unprofitable for its main instigator and organizer - the US government. Given their decision to sacrifice Europe, the Old Continent should cease to be their backyard, training ground, chessboard and laboratory. The salvation of drowning people, while they have a chance not to drown in blood, is only in the hands of the peoples of Europe.

Unfortunately, Europe was transformed into Ukraine faster than Ukraine became Europe, which no longer exists, as Ukraine itself has not existed for a long time.

See this re-posting by Scott Ritter:

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Profitable for the UK too? Here's Graham Elwood on Boris Johnson, (UK Member of Parliament for Uxbridge and South Ruislip), currently on a visit to the US, and his video tweet:

I’m making the case for giving Ukraine everything it needs to defeat Putin

The United States has done so much - that’s why I came to Washington to say thank you and ‘God bless the USA’ pic.twitter.com/BHHxvvj7rv

— Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) February 3, 2023

George Galloway interviewed Scott Ritter on his MOATS yesterday. The casualty figures he gives are shocking, even using ordinary math (fourteen brigades is about 56 thousand troops lost in Bakhmut):

See my comment:

6:23 Any wise civilian leader would not have accepted billions of dollars worth of bribes which he keeps in foreign bank accounts, ... [See this piece by George Galloway from March 2022]. See also this: Pandora Papers Reveal Offshore Holdings of Ukrainian President and his Inner Circle:

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky rode to power on pledges to clean up the Eastern European country, but the Pandora Papers reveal he and his close circle were the beneficiaries of a network of offshore companies, including some that owned expensive London property.

Don't miss the bit at 13:00 where George and Scott reminisce about the lead-up to the Iraq war and then US Secretary of State Colin Powell's Weapons of Mass Destruction lies.

See Kim Iversen Interviewing Paul Manafort, Ukraine War Chest at $100 Billion And UK Former Military Officials Pushing for More and listen to George on the Daily Mail's calculation at 8:32. If Britain were at war with Russia the British Army would run out of ammunition within one day. According to Ritter, Britain could only muster two brigades at most. Without the US forces NATO would be utterly toothless.

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Why do they need to attack Russia? Because all the Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs who have invested vast sums in London, and presumably even more vast sums in secret british offshore banks, are Vladimir Putin's puppets. Boris Johnson knows this, because when he was Mayor of London he invited them there (2:48). 

And so obviously there's nothing that anyone in Britain can do about this except attack Russia militarily.

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See DW News Interview With Nicholas Shaxton on British Offshore Banking. They don't even know who is selling big London properties because of these secrecy laws:

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See also this interview with Nicholas Shaxton, where he explains the post WWII origin of British laissez faire capitalism at 5:12 and Flight Capital at 14:48 and the complete and utter hopelessness of reform 19:33.

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