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Originally Posted by Fuzz
The parallels between that and Russian media are kinda shocking. It would be like a Russian professor saying Putin is at fault for the war on Russian TV. No one wants to even hear it.
That was interesting about the helicopters and radar info.
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Yeah, and left out from that brief clip, and even from the full interview below, is how right after the interview another Bloomberg host immediately took a minute just to dismiss/discredit him as merely an economist ranting outside of his lane. The hosted basically said he doesn't know about policy issues and shouldn't talk about them.
In reality, Sachs has been special advisor to three UN Secretaries-General, been President of a UN sustainable development network, and has been Commissioner of another UN commission on development. He was also the economist chiefly charged with development of the economic policies for post-Soviet states around the breakup of the Soviet Union and knows first-hand how policies were set up for Russia at that time and how political interests factored into the policy decisions.
His work with the UN on leading for the SDGs directly deals with the dichotomy between what leaders will publicly profess to support and the realities of what they support as demonstrated in policy and in how they choose to spend their money. He's not a military expert, but he has a lot of credibility in terms of insight into policy via one of the most core factors for understanding the motivations and behaviors of nation states.