US analyst breaks ranks on nuclear plant strikes

 

Economist Jeffrey Sachs has called for Washington to demand that Ukraine stop shelling the Zaporozhye plant and blaming Russia

FILE PHOTO: The Zaporozhye NPP in Energodar, August 23, 2022 ©  Sputnik / Konstantin Mihalchevskiy

US public policy analyst Jeffrey Sachs has again broken with the West’s narrative on the Russia-Ukraine conflict, arguing that President Joe Biden’s administration must order Kiev to stop shelling Europe’s largest nuclear power plant and falsely blaming Russia for the strikes.

“It’s almost surely Ukraine shelling the power plant, and we can’t bring ourselves to express a simple truth,” Sachs said on Sunday in the Grayzone podcast. “That hurts because they continue to shell the power plant with impunity.”

Sachs, an award-winning economist who became notorious in Russia for masterminding the “shock therapy” reforms in the 1990s, noted that Western media outlets have pretended to have no idea who’s shelling the Zaporozhye nuclear plant even though it’s been under Russian control since March. “They can’t put one and one together to say, well, if Russia’s in control of the plant, maybe they’re not shelling their own plant. Maybe it’s Ukraine shelling the plant.”

The analyst lamented that US officials can’t even find the words to tell Kiev not to shell a nuclear power plant, despite the potential catastrophe that could result. He argued that Washington has given Ukraine’s government free rein to provoke Russia and escalate the conflict.

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