JEFFREY SACHS: I was attacked in The Atlantic for being on the side of peace. And I confess, I’m on the side of peace. I’m very worried we are on the path of escalation to nuclear war, nothing less than that.
Russia feels that this war is at the core of its security interests. The United States insists it will do anything to support Ukraine’s defeat of Russia. Russia views this as a proxy war with the United States. Whatever one thinks about this, this is the path of an extraordinary, dangerous escalation. And I am very fearful.
A lot of the world is watching these events in horror, and a lot of the world doesn’t like this NATO expansion, which they interpret as at the core of this. They want to see a compromise between the U.S. and Russia.
In vote after vote in the United Nations, basically, it has been the Western nations that have been voting for sanctions and denunciations and other actions. Whereas most of the world, certainly most of the world counted by population, is on the sidelines. They just view this as a horrible clash between Russia and the U.S. They don’t view this, as we describe it in the media, as an unprovoked attack by Russia on Ukraine.
Anyone in the U.S. thinks, “well, what else is it?” But that is because of the way our media has been reporting this. This conflict goes back a long time, it didn’t start on February 24, 2022. In fact, the war itself started in 2014, not in 2022, and even that had antecedents.
Most of the world doesn’t see it the way we describe it. Most of the world is just terrified right now, frankly.
It is unbelievable to be hearing on one side that they will use nuclear weapons if they have to, while the other side says, “You can’t frighten us.”
Europe is in a very, very sharp economic downturn. The sharp decline in output and living standards also shows up as a rise in prices, but the main fact is the European economy is getting hammered by the sudden cutoff of energy.
Jonas E. Alexis has degrees in mathematics and philosophy. He studied education at the graduate level. His main interests include U.S. foreign policy, the history of the Israel/Palestine conflict, and the history of ideas. He is the author of the new book Zionism vs. the West: How Talmudic Ideology is Undermining Western Culture. He teaches mathematics in South Korea.
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