🚨Jeffrey Sachs Wake Up Europe!
"Do not ask for whom the bell tolls.. It tolls for thee"!
To Ursula, Kallas, Merz, Macron, Starmer
Europe remains an occupied continent 80 years after the end of World War II, occupied mentally and occupied physically by the United States. The US is not protecting Europe. The US is confusing Europe.
The US is causing Europe to abase itself, to break all the normal relations that Europe should have with the rest of the world, to be completely confused about what's right and wrong.
Just speaking as an economist, absolutely the most natural economic connection you can imagine is Russia and Europe.
These are two complementary economies.
When you study international trade, you learn a theory that was developed by a great Swedish economist more than 100 years ago, Heckscher-Ohlin, about what makes trade.
And one thing that makes trade is different factor proportions.
If one place is relatively land-scarce and people-rich, and another place is land-rich and relatively people-scarce, they will trade very productively.
And that's one of the mistakes that Europe has made that is fundamental.
It broke the most natural trade relation with Russia.
And it's determined every day to make sure it's a permanent suicidal break, which is incredible, because it seems there are no economists here in Brussels to say some basic truth.
What are you doing?
This is crazy.
It absolutely is completely wrongheaded.
But Europe is, because of the confusions caused mainly by the United States, as I'll emphasize, Europe is making mistakes vis-a-vis China.
It's making mistakes vis-a-vis Russia.
It is making profound mistakes in the Middle East, where this war of aggression by the United States and Israel against Iran, when Iran was doing nothing but trying to negotiate for the last 15 years, begging to negotiate, signing agreements, coming back to negotiate, only to be killed by the Israelis and the Americans when they sat down to negotiate.
And I mean that literally, not figuratively.
On many occasions, Europe can't even tell what side is the right side.
President Costa today, I just saw, tweeted that Iran must negotiate.
Excuse me.
The United States and Israel launched this war, a pure, sheer, illegal, vulgar, disgusting, failed, violent war of aggression, period.
It's simple.
It's not even complicated.
And yet, Europe can't find the words to say the truth.