SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: Prof. Jeffrey Sachs : Using the Economy as a Weapon

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We May be on the Verge of a Major War Prof. Jeffrey Sachs : Using the Economy as a Weapon — Trump and Iran The United States used economic warfare to create chaos in Iran. The United States used economic warfare to destroy the Iranian economy, and it continues to do so. The goal is regime change. Absolutely illegal, absolutely disastrous, crushing the lives, the livelihoods, the health, leading to deaths en masse numbers we know these sanctions that have been used by the United States in this way in many countries to destroy other countries. The US is engaged in economic warfare out of control, completely irresponsible, often gamed by wealthy campaign contributors or Trump's own family. What's happening in Iran is the deliberate collapse of the currency, the deliberate, creation of mass poverty, unemployment, and unrest in Iran for the purpose of attempting a regime change. And, maybe it's true that not one, in a million New York Times reporters can understand it, or mainstream, media reporters, but now at least they have Mr. Bessent, to listen to, and maybe they should reflect on that to try to understand their job better of reporting what's really happening. The United States is engaged in war, war is illegal under our Constitution unless declared by the US Congress, and it's illegal under international law, the UN Charter, Article II, Section 4, which is treaty law of the United States since the UN Charter was ratified in July 1945. The fact of the matter is that the vast majority of the world does not want war, does not want sides, does not want a US, quote, "economic statecraft," which means economic warfare. The rest of the world wants to get on with their lives, and they're doing it step by step. Yesterday or today, I can't, even remember by the hour now, Trump has, threatened, new tariffs against South Korea, a supposed ally, a home to US military bases. Well, the South Korean leadership was recently in Beijing, saying, we want normal relations with China." And interestingly, though the US, punished one country after another last year, trade among those countries outside of the United States didn't suffer. It turned out you can get along just fine with trading with each other. The United States is not big enough, powerful enough, determinative enough of the world's future to hold it in its hands the way that our Emperor Donald thinks it is, and so the rest of the world had increases of trade. China's trade went up last year. So this is what is happening. Countries are finding other ways to do business with each other, and they are not being cowed by the US, even though I have to say, the US can still do a great deal of harm, as is the case in Venezuela, as is the case in Iran, and we may see within the coming days a US attack, military attack on Iran, as these, aircraft, carrier task force, approach, the Persian Gulf. So, we may be on the verge of a major war. Maybe not. Maybe it's a bluff, but the warfare is absolutely real.