SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: Jeffrey Sachs names the driver of the wars: Washington and Europe still believe they run the world.

https://x.com/apocalypseos/status/2093799720875614477

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Jeffrey Sachs names the driver of the wars: Washington and Europe still believe they run the world. That hegemonic mindset is at work in Ukraine, Gaza, Iran, and Venezuela—and it is now dragging the West into decline.

“The reason we’re in these wars is basically because the United States and Europe are determined to maintain their hegemonic prerogatives. For centuries, the West—so-called, mainly the empires of Europe and from the late 19th century the United States—judged that they effectively ran the world. Mr. Bessent, our Treasury Secretary, who is a sheer vulgarian, the worst imaginable that we’ve ever had, basically says in the Financial Times today, ‘We run the world. We determine who does what. We determine who trades. We will destroy whichever countries we want.’ That’s the mindset.

That mindset is at work in Ukraine. It’s at work in the genocide in Gaza. It’s at work in the war against Iran. It was at work, of course, in the kidnapping and confiscation of Venezuela’s oil revenues earlier this year. The mindset is we run the world. Yes, it’s a little bit nasty because there are these pesky wannabe challengers like Russia, Iran, or China that don’t want us to run the world, but effectively we run the world, and we’re going to tell the world what to do. That’s the mindset.

It’s so out of date, so absurd, so delusional that it drives a set of policies—not only the war, but trade measures, protectionism, and so forth—that are leading the West into not only relative decline as these other places rise, but perhaps serious absolute decline at some point, because all of the claims that are made for hegemony and all of the overreach are leading to a buildup of burdens fiscally, in terms of debt, in terms of claims on trade, in terms of cutting off economic linkages around the world, including now the trade war between the United States and Canada, for God’s sake, which was launched just two days ago, that I think will put both Europe and the United States into very serious economic crisis in the coming years.

Again, Europe is in a crisis right now. The United States is in what I would regard as a massive financial bubble due to the AI valuations and the stock market, which keep things afloat for the moment. But it’s a bubble that I think is going to burst.”

Hegemony is not strength. It is overreach. The wars, the sanctions, and the bubble are the same system eating itself.