Prof. Jeffrey Sachs on the UN and Russia

 

Sachs talks alot of sense. He supported Jill Stein for president in the last election.

He was recently interviewed by Tucker Carlson for more than an hour and was very thorough. 

Some in Russia don't trust him because of his time there during the Soviet Union collapse. He was one of the 'Harvard boys' along with the 'Chicago boys' that were sent to Russia to privatize as much of the economy as possible under Yeltsin.

 

I've heard Sachs talk about trying to get western financial support for Russia as they hit the skids after breakup of Soviet Union - he reports the US western allies gave nothing. 

 

I've not heard Sachs say that the privatization of the Russian economy was a bad or good thing. 

 

It was not our place to force privatization and then the defeat of the Communist party (due to Bill Clinton's direct intervention in the 1996 election) but of course this was all part of western goal to dismantle not just the Soviet Union, but also Russia itself.

 

Then Putin came along and stabilized things and saved Russia.

 

Bruce