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In 1989 I served as an advisor to the first post-communist government of Poland, and helped to devise a strategy of financial stabilization and economic transformation. My recommendations in 1989 called for large-scale Western financial support for Poland’s economy in order to prevent a runaway inflation, enable a convertible Polish currency at a stable exchange rate, and an opening of trade and investment with the countries of the European Community (now the European Union). These recommendations were heeded by the US Government, the G7, and the International Monetary Fund.
Based on my advice, a $1 billion Zloty stabilization fund was established that served as the backing of Poland’s newly convertible currency. Poland was granted a standstill on debt servicing on the Soviet-era debt, and then a partial cancellation of that debt. Poland was granted significant development assistance in the form of grants and loans by the official international community.
Poland’s subsequent economic and social performance speaks for itself. Despite Poland’s economy having experienced a decade of collapse in the 1980s, Poland began a period of rapid economic growth in the early 1990s. The currency remained stable and inflation low. In 1990, Poland’s GDP per capita (measured in purchasing-power terms) was 33% of neighboring Germany. By 2024, it had reached 68% of Germany’s GDP per capita, following decades of rapid economic growth.
On the basis of Poland’s economic success, I was contacted in 1990 by Mr. Grigory Yavlinsky, economic advisor to President Mikhail Gorbachev, to offer similar advice to the Soviet Union, and in particular to help mobilize financial support for the economic stabilization and transformation of the Soviet Union. One outcome of that work was a 1991 project undertaken at the Harvard Kennedy School with Professors Graham Allison, Stanley Fisher, and Robert Blackwill. We jointly proposed a “Grand Bargain” to the US, G7, and Soviet Union, in which we advocated large-scale financial support by the US and G7 countries for Gorbachev’s ongoing economic and political reforms. The report was published as Window of Opportunity: The Grand Bargain for Democracy in the Soviet Union (1 October 1991).
The proposal for large-scale Western support for the Soviet Union was flatly rejected by the Cold Warriors in the White House. Gorbachev came to the G7 Summit in London in July 1991 asking for financial assistance, but left empty-handed. Upon his return to Moscow, he was abducted in the coup attempt of August 1991. At that point, Boris Yeltsin, President of the Russian Federation, assumed effective leadership of the crisis-ridden Soviet Union. By December, under the weight of decisions by Russia and other Soviet republics, the Soviet Union was dissolved with the emergence of 15 newly independent nations.
In September 1991, I was contacted by Yegor Gaidar, economic advisor to Yeltsin, and soon to be acting Prime Minister of newly independent Russian Federation as of December 1991. He requested that I come to Moscow to discuss the economic crisis and ways to stabilize the Russian economy. At that stage, Russia was on the verge of hyperinflation, financial default to the West, the collapse of international trade with the other republics and with the former socialist countries of Eastern Europe, and intense shortages of food in Russian cities resulting from the collapse of food deliveries from the farmlands and the pervasive black marketing of foodstuffs and other essential commodities.
I recommended that Russia reiterate the call for large-scale Western financial assistance, including an immediate standstill on debt servicing, longer-term debt relief, a currency stabilization fund for the ruble (as for the Zloty in Poland), large-scale grants of dollars and European currencies to support urgently needed food and medical imports and other essential commodity flows, and immediate financing by the IMF, World Bank, and other institutions to protect Russia’s social services (healthcare, education, and others).
In November 1991, Gaidar met with the G7 Deputies (the deputy finance ministers of the G7 countries) and requested a standstill on debt servicing. This request was flatly denied. To the contrary, Gaidar was told that unless Russia continued to service every last dollar as it came due, emergency food aid on the high seas heading to Russia would be immediately turned around and sent back to the home ports. I met with an ashen-faced Gaidar immediately after the G7 Deputies meeting.
In December 1991, I met with Yeltsin in the Kremlin to brief him on Russia’s financial crisis and on my continued hope and advocacy for emergency Western assistance, especially as Russia was now emerging as an independent, democratic nation after the end of the Soviet Union. He requested that I serve as an advisor to his economic team, with a focus on attempting to mobilize the needed large-scale financial support. I accepted that challenge and the advisory position on a strictly unpaid basis.
Upon returning from Moscow, I went to Washington to reiterate my call for a debt standstill, a currency stabilization fund, and emergency financial support. In my meeting with Mr. Richard Erb, Deputy Managing Director of the IMF in charge of overall relations with Russia, I learned that the US did not support this kind of financial package. I once again pleaded the economic and financial case, and was determined to change US policy. It had been my experience in other advisory contexts that it might require several months to sway Washington on its policy approach.
Indeed, during 1991-94 I would advocate non-stop but without success for large-scale Western support for Russia’s crisis-ridden economy, and support for the other 14 newly independent states of the former Soviet Union. I made these appeals in countless speeches, meetings, conferences, op-eds, and academic articles. Mine was a lonely voice in the US in calling for such support. I had learned from economic history — most importantly the crucial writings of John Maynard Keynes (especially Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1919) — and from my own advisory experiences in Latin America and Eastern Europe, that external financial support for Russia could well be the make or break of Russia’s urgently needed stabilization effort.
It is worth quoting at length here from my article in the Washington Post in November 1991 to present the gist of my argument at the time:
This is the third time in this century in which the West must address the vanquished. When the German and Hapsburg Empires collapsed after World War I, the result was financial chaos and social dislocation. Keynes predicted in 1919 that this utter collapse in Germany and Austria, combined with a lack of vision from the victors, would conspire to produce a furious backlash towards military dictatorship in Central Europe. Even as brilliant a finance minister as Joseph Schumpeter in Austria could not stanch the torrent towards hyperinflation and hyper-nationalism, and the United States descended into the isolationism of the 1920s under the “leadership” of Warren G. Harding and Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge.
After World War II, the victors were smarter. Harry Truman called for U.S. financial support to Germany and Japan, as well as the rest of Western Europe. The sums involved in the Marshall Plan, equal to a few percent of the recipient countries’ GNPs, was not enough to actually rebuild Europe. It was, though, a political lifeline to the visionary builders of democratic capitalism in postwar Europe.
Now the Cold War and the collapse of communism have left Russia as prostrate, frightened and unstable as was Germany after World War I and World War II. Inside Russia, Western aid would have the galvanizing psychological and political effect that the Marshall Plan had for Western Europe. Russia’s psyche has been tormented by 1,000 years of brutal invasions, stretching from Genghis Khan to Napoleon and Hitler.
Churchill judged that the Marshall Plan was history’s “most unsordid act,” and his view was shared by millions of Europeans for whom the aid was the first glimpse of hope in a collapsed world. In a collapsed Soviet Union, we have a remarkable opportunity to raise the hopes of the Russian people through an act of international understanding. The West can now inspire the Russian people with another unsordid act.
This advice went unheeded, but that did not deter me from continuing my advocacy. In early 1992, I was invited to make the case on the PBS news show The McNeil-Lehrer Report. I was on air with acting Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger. After the show, he asked me to ride with him from the PBS studio in Arlington, Virginia back to Washington, D.C. Our conversation was the following. “Jeffrey, please let me explain to you that your request for large-scale aid is not going to happen. Even assuming that I agree with your arguments — and Poland’s finance minister [Leszek Balcerowicz] made the same points to me just last week — it’s not going to happen. Do you want to know why? Do you know what this year is?” “1992,” I answered. “Do you know that this means?” “An election year?” I replied. “Yes, this is an election year. It’s not going to happen.”
Russia’s economic crisis worsened rapidly in 1992. Gaidar lifted price controls at the start of 1992, not as some purported miracle cure but because the Soviet-era official fixed prices were irrelevant under the pressures of the black markets, the repressed inflation (that is, rapid inflation in the black-market prices and therefore the rising the gap with the official prices), the complete breakdown of the Soviet-era planning mechanism, and the massive corruption engendered by the few goods still being exchanged at the official prices far below the black-market prices.
Russia urgently needed a stabilization plan of the kind that Poland had undertaken, but such a plan was out of reach financially (because of the lack of external support) and politically (because the lack of external support also meant the lack of any internal consensus on what to do). The crisis was compounded by the collapse of trade among the newly independent post-Soviet nations and the collapse of trade between the former Soviet Union and its former satellite nations in Central and Eastern Europe, which were now receiving Western aid and were reorienting trade towards Western Europe and away from the former Soviet Union.
During 1992 I continued without any success to try to mobilize the large-scale Western financing that I believed to be ever-more urgent. I pinned my hopes on the newly elected Presidency of Bill Clinton. These hopes too were quickly dashed. Clinton’s key advisor on Russia, Johns Hopkins Professor Michael Mandelbaum, told me privately in November 1992 that the incoming Clinton team had rejected the concept of large-scale assistance for Russia. Mandelbaum soon announced publicly that he would not serve in the new administration. I met with Clinton’s new Russia advisor, Strobe Talbott, but discovered that he was largely unaware of the pressing economic realities. He asked me to send him some materials about hyperinflations, which I duly did.
At the end of 1992, after one year of trying to help Russia, I told Gaidar that I would step aside as my recommendations were not heeded in Washington or the European capitals. Yet around Christmas Day I received a phone call from Russia’s incoming financing minister, Mr. Boris Fyodorov. He asked me to meet him in Washington in the very first days of 1993. We met at the World Bank. Fyodorov, a gentleman and highly intelligent expert who tragically died young a few years later, implored me to remain as an advisor to him during 1993. I agreed to do so, and spent one more year attempting to help Russia implement a stabilization plan. I resigned in December 1993, and publicly announced my departure as advisor in the first days of 1994.
My continued advocacy in Washington once again fell on deaf ears in the first year of the Clinton Administration, and my own forebodings became greater. I repeatedly invoked the warnings of history in my public speaking and writing, as in this piece in the New Republic in January 1994, soon after I had stepped aside from the advisory role.
Above all, Clinton should not console himself with the thought that nothing too serious can happen in Russia. Many Western policymakers have confidently predicted that if the reformers leave now, they will be back in a year, after the Communists once again prove themselves unable to govern. This might happen, but chances are it will not. History has probably given the Clinton administration one chance for bringing Russia back from the brink; and it reveals an alarmingly simple pattern. The moderate Girondists did not follow Robespierre back into power. With rampant inflation, social disarray and falling living standards, revolutionary France opted for Napoleon instead. In revolutionary Russia, Aleksandr Kerensky did not return to power after Lenin’s policies and civil war had led to hyperinflation. The disarray of the early 1920s opened the way for Stalin’s rise to power. Nor was Bruning’sgovernment given another chance in Germany once Hitler came to power in 1933.
It is worth clarifying that my advisory role in Russia was limited to macroeconomic stabilization and international financing. I was not involved in Russia’s privatization program which took shape during 1993-4, nor in the various measures and programs (such as the notorious “shares-for-loans” scheme in 1996) that gave rise to the new Russian oligarchs. On the contrary, I opposed the various kinds of measures that Russia was undertaking, believing them to be rife with unfairness and corruption. I said as much in both the public and in private to Clinton officials, but they were not listening to me on that account either. Colleagues of mine at Harvard were involved in the privatization work, but they assiduously kept me far away from their work. Two were later charged by the US government with insider dealing in activities in Russia which I had absolutely no foreknowledge or involvement of any kind. My only role in that matter was to dismiss them from the Harvard Institute for International Development for violating the internal HIID rules against conflicts of interest in countries that HIID advised.
The failure of the West to provide large-scale and timely financial support to Russia and the other newly independent nations of the former Soviet Union definitely exacerbated the serious economic and financial crisis that faced those countries in the early 1990s. Inflation remained very high for several years. Trade and hence economic recovery were seriously impeded. Corruption flourished under the policies of parceling out valuable state assets to private hands.
All of these dislocations gravely weakened the public trust in the new governments of the region and the West. This collapse in social trust brought to my mind at the time the adage of Keynes in 1919, following the disaster Versailles settlement and the hyperinflations that followed: “There is no subtler, no surer means of over- turning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and it does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.”
During the tumultuous decade of the 1990s, Russia’s social services fell into decline. When this decline was coupled with the greatly increased stresses on society, the result was a sharp rise in Russia’s alcohol-related deaths. Whereas in Poland, the economic reforms were accompanied by a rise in life expectancy and public health, the very opposite occurred in crisis-riven Russia.
Even with all of these economic debacles, and with Russia’s default in 1998, the grave economic crisis and lack of Western support were not the definitive breaking points of US-Russian relations. In 1999, when Vladimir Putin became Prime Minister and in 2000 when he became President, Putin sought friendly and mutually supportive international relations between Russia and the West. Many European leaders, for example, Italy’s Romano Prodi, have spoken extensively about Putin’s goodwill and positive intentions towards strong Russia-EU relations in the first years of his presidency.
It was in military affairs rather than in economics that the Russian – Western relations ended up falling apart in the 2000s. As with finance, the West was militarily dominant in the 1990s, and certainly had the means to promote strong and positive relations with Russia. Yet the US was far more interested in Russia’s subservience to NATO than it was in stable relations with Russia.
At the time of German reunification, both the US and Germany repeatedly promised Gorbachev and then Yeltsin that the West would not take advantage of German reunification and the end of the Warsaw Pact by expanding the NATO military alliance eastward. Both Gorbachev and Yeltsin reiterated the importance of this US-NATO pledge. Yet within just a few years, Clinton completely reneged on the Western commitment, and began the process of NATO enlargement. Leading US diplomats, led by the great statesman-scholar George Kennan, warned at the time that the NATO enlargement would lead to disaster: “The view, bluntly stated, is that expanding NATO would be the most fateful error of American policy in the entire post-cold-war era.” So, it has proved.
Here is not the place to revisit all of the foreign policy disasters that have resulted from US arrogance towards Russia, but it suffices here to mention a brief and partial chronology of key events. In 1999, NATO bombed Belgrade for 78 days with the goal of breaking Serbia apart and giving rise to an independent Kosovo, now home to a major NATO base in the Balkans. In 2002, the US unilaterally withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty over Russia’s strenuous objections. In 2003, the US and NATO allies repudiated the UN Security Council by going to war in Iraq on false pretenses. In 2004, the US continued with NATO enlargement, this time to the Baltic States and countries in the Black Sea region (Bulgaria and Romania) and the Balkans. In 2008, over Russia’s urgent and strenuous objections, the US pledged to expand NATO to Georgia and Ukraine.
In 2011, the US tasked the CIA to overthrow Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, an ally of Russia. In 2011, NATO bombed Libya in order to overthrow Moammar Qaddafi. In 2014, the US conspired with Ukrainian nationalist forces to overthrow Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych. In 2015, the US began to place Aegis anti-ballistic missiles in Eastern Europe(Romania), a short distance from Russia. In 2016-2020, the US supported Ukraine in undermining the Minsk II agreement, despite its unanimous backing by the UN Security Council. In 2021, the new Biden Administration refused to negotiate with Russia over the question of NATO enlargement to Ukraine. In April 2022, the US called on Ukraine to withdraw from peace negotiations with Russia.
Looking back on the events around 1991-93, and to the events that followed, it is clear that the US was determined to say no to Russia’s aspirations for peaceful and mutually respectful integration of Russia and the West. The end of the Soviet period and the beginning of the Yeltsin Presidency occasioned the rise of the neoconservatives (neocons) to power in the United States. The neocons did not and do not want a mutually respectful relationship with Russia. They sought and until today seek a unipolar world led by a hegemonic US, in which Russia and other nations will be subservient.
In this US-led world order, the neocons envisioned that the US and the US alone will determine the utilization of the dollar-based banking system, the placement of overseas US military bases, the extent of NATO membership, and the deployment of US missile systems, without any veto or say by other countries, certainly including Russia. That arrogant foreign policy has led to several wars and to a widening rupture of relations between the US-led bloc of nations and the rest of the world. As an advisor to Russia during two years, late-1991 to late-93, I experienced first-hand the early days of neoconservatism applied to Russia, though it would take many years of events afterwards to recognize the full extent of the new and dangerous turn in US foreign policy that began in the early 1990s.
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A few agitated commenters have once again begun denouncing Prof. Jeffrey Sachs for allegedly being responsible for the Western looting of Russia during the 1990s.
Frankly, a decade or two ago I’d vaguely had the same opinion since I’d always seen him described in the newspapers as one of the key economic advisors to the Russian government of that period and had read some article somewhere making that claim. But I’d never explored this matter and over the last couple of years I’ve become convinced that my impression was entirely mistaken.
Therefore, I’d urge that people read Sachs’ article providing his version of the history, very similar to what he’d said in his 2005 book, which I’d read earlier this year. I’d also strongly suggest that people watch his detailed interview, which he apparently arranged after Taibbi and the other hosts had casually made that same mistaken accusation in a previous show.
Over the last couple of years I’ve watched a number of his interviews in which he discussed these matters, and all I can say is that he’s either being honest or he’s about the best liar in the history of the human species.
As far as I can tell, the only reason people believe Sachs was responsible was one 1998 article published in the Nation plus portions of Naomi Klein’s 2007 book. Mistaken ideas sometimes get into circulation and are then repeated back and forth so many times that everyone assumes they’re correct. But I’ve carefully read those two sources and I found Sachs’ account much more persuasive.
More importantly, President Putin and the top Russian leaders have denounced the 1990s policies as one of the greatest economic disasters of the 20th century and have been scathing in their denunciations of the American advisors who they blamed for the looting of their country and the total impoverishment of the Russian population. However, they’ve never included Sachs in that category, and instead they have always treated him with respect and friendship.
I think that Putin and his leadership team have a much better idea of what really happened during the 1990s than any of us do, and the identities of the heroes and the villains. So I trust Putin’s judgment on such things.
This issue has major importance because of Sachs’ current status as one of the foremost critics of American policies. Indeed, in my articles I’ve made that point that Sachs has probably now become the highest-ranking American ideological defector of the last one hundred years, or at least no other obvious names come to mind:
https://www.unz.com/runz/the-transformation-of-prof-jeffrey-sachs/
https://www.unz.com/runz/jeffrey-sachs-as-righteous-rogue-elephant/
This is a very big deal. Here’s an example of what I mean by “high-ranking”:
There are obviously many other critics of current American policy. But he is one of the very, very few who has the global stature to go toe-to-toe with leading political figures or top journalists, and generally get the better of them. For example, here’s a recent clip of his appearance on Irish TV:
I actually suspect that at least some of these ongoing attacks on his past activities are disingenuous attempts to undercut his current role. Certainly not all, but probably at least some.
So I would urge everyone in doubt to read this article, watch his interview segment, and then make up their own minds. I’d also strongly recommend this two hour interview with Tucker Carlson from earlier this year, which has now gotten 9.4 million impressions:
After WW2, America needed strong allies to counter Soviet expansion. On the contrary, when Russia collapsed, America faced no stern competition; at least not for the shortsighted foreseeable future. That’s the key difference. The ideological basis for the cold war was merely an epiphenomenon.
Sachs yearns for a global order without great power rivalry but human nature denies his dream. Great power rivalry is our order.
Even if a global peace were to be achieved, it would soon fragment into multiple factions. As a mostly isolated realm, Chinese history gives us a model of what a global order may look like – an empire long divided must soon unite; an empire long united must soon divide.
The neocons were Jews.
The comments made by Professor Sachs in this article were made by him years ago in this short video:
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Two mothers are pushing their baby strollers down a leafy street, chatting about their families. Perhaps later they flick on the TV to catch the latest news. They hear that the Ukrainians are valiantly fending off Russian aggression.
They are entirely oblivious to the stealthy enemy that has infiltrated their banking system, media, government, corporations, and universities. They have no idea this enemy is driving up the prices of milk, gas, and all their other household expenses by printing excess dollars to launder to themselves through the entirely needless war in Ukraine, provoked by them in the first place.
These mothers do not imagine that their favorite newscaster is a highly paid actor and con artist, only concerned with keeping his or her highly paid job by telling the story their organized crime oligarchy owners want told.
They cannot imagine that their small children will one day become cannon fodder for the sinister gangsters (aka banksters) who rule their country from behind the curtains. They will only shed tears and rail against the scapegoats the gangsters have set up for them
Because they can’t imagine a religion could include such evil teachings. And especially not a religion they have been brought up to believe is the “parent” of their own Christian religion. It would be too harsh a break with reality to imagine such a thing.
They can’t imagine what for practical purposes is a Talmudic cult bent on world conquest still existing in the world today, and with the accumulated financial power to control the main institutions of their country.
It will be easier to scale back their standard of living, and let their children go off to die in a confusing war, which their favorite “neocon” newscaster assures them is necessary to “defend democracy”.
“After WW2, America needed strong allies to counter Soviet expansion.”
Expansion? Or was it gifts of lands and countries given to Stalin by the Roosevelt administration that was riddled with Soviet spies. How is it that we became allies of the Soviets and supported their war industries, while Roosevelt was calling the mass murderer, Stalin, Uncle Joe, but, once the war was over almost immediately they became our number one enemy. Patton knew what was happening and was killed before he could expose the American traitors. Germany was never our enemy, we fought the wrong country.
I was wondering about this very point. In May-June 1993 I had spent about a month working in the Duma as part of a parliamentary staff exchange with the US Senate. (The very thought seems bizarre now.) This was in the midst of the notorious “voucher” privatization scheme. Nobody I talked with, from any Russian faction, had a good word to say about it, as it greatly facilitated transfer of state property to the oligarchs. Given his prominence, I’d always associated Jeffrey Sachs with the voucher scheme. I’m relieved to hear that’s not the case. Perhaps Mr. Sachs can provide some insight into whose baby it was.
Sachs is a decent guy. He is very cautious not to get his hands dirty by supporting corrupt politicians. Can you imagine having a million Jews like Sachs in the U.S., UK or in Russia?
His interview with the bigoted most racist animal Piers Morgan tells a lot about the man that the Anglo-Zionist political and media establishments dislike.
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Oh, Putin would know for sure. He himself was involved in various corruption schemes in Saint Petersburg administration in the early 1990s.
What a tragic view of the state of humanity.
Perhaps if you stopped confusing your opinion with indisputable fact you might cheer up a little.
Knowledge of history helps inform us about the present and potentially the future too, but only if we apply it with nuance and without crass dogmatism.
Jeffrey Sachs, unlike most of the folk who post at Unz.com, is a wise man who appreciates the intrinsic unity of humanity, this planet and our common fate. If that’s “globalism” count me in.
A Neocon is simply a Zionist dressed up to appear more respectable.
The goals of a Neocon are the same as a Zionist, which are to israelize the US and UK and Europe and Australia, promote totalitarian democracy, promote federal protected class victim cult supremacy, promote government privileges over inalienable rights, destroy equal protection of the laws, promote open borders for victim cultists, promote zio-christianity (idol worship of Jews and Israel) as a state religion, promote crony capitalism over free enterprise, and protect Jewish supremacist Israel at any costs.
The current Ukraine-Russia war is being prosecuted so that Russia is weakened and so that it can’t effectively assist its Syrian and Iranian allies in the middle east.
Both Syria and Iran are long time targeted by the Democrat-Zionist uniparty for regime change, and Democrat-Zionists don’t want Russia interfering with their plans for the middle east.
The Democrat-Zionist uniparty has been sending US tax monies, weapons, and mercenaries to Ukraine to keep the war going indefinitely, but there is a point where Russia will have had enough and they will retaliate by placing Russian nuclear missiles in Cuba and maybe Venezuela to even the balance.
Russia will never accept NATO nuclear missiles in Ukraine, but if Democrat-Zionists persist in their warmongering, Russia will likely retaliate in kind.
You can blame the Democrat-Zionist uniparty if there is another Cuban missile crises.
The Democrat-Zionist uniparty claims US support for the Ukraine-Russia war is necessary to save ethnic Ukrainians, but in reality, they are using Ukrainians as disposable cannon fodder to further their Israel-serving regime change plans for the Middle East.
Jews and Zionists in the US State Department instigated the war when they tore up the Minsk Agreement, ordered their Jewish stooge Zelensky to murder all Russian civilians living in eastern Ukraine, announced their intention to have Ukraine join NATO, and when they activated multiple US-built bio-weapon labs in Ukraine.
Since the war started, grifter Zelensky has banned all opposition parties, outlawed all independent media, outlawed the orthodox christian church, outlawed antisemitism, implemented forced conscription of ethnic Ukrainians used as cannon fodder, and used his Zio-Nazi Azov Brigades to terrorize the Ukrainian people.
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“Can You Not Find Anything Negative To Say About Putin?”
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An early neocon, Daniel Patrick Moynahan, was not. But he passed them lots of ammunition — to the extent of writing cover pieces for Commentary while Norman Podhoretz was editor. Gawd!
The whole trouble with the “Jew thing” is and always will be too many accomplices. If it were only Jews they wouldn’t last an hour. Look and the happy employers of Springfield Ohio who ordered up a few thousand Haitians to work cheap and destroy what’s left of a tiny but pleasant town. I’ll bet not one Jew among the guilty.
It would be nice to have an easy target but we don’t. Our enemy includes far too many of our own.
I’m taking a more “Distant” View on PhD Sachs:
IIRC, PhD Sachs did come to Russia with the Harvard Boys to advise the Govt –
PhD Hudson was previously there in Russia advising their Govt; but was replaced by the Harvard Boys.
PhD Sachs & Associates introduced a Shock Therapy Transition Methodology – to get Russia’s Economy to become more Westernized quickly instead of implementing Reforms unto the Pre-existing and faulty Economic Systems.
Murica being Murica – through their Harvard Boys, Chicago Boys, Monetarist All – the Murican Reformations allowed for the plundering of Industrial Entities in efforts for Western Financial Interests to eventually control.
Regardless of WHAT PhD Sachs’ explanations were – especially with the proposed Murican Aid that was supposed to happen – the Shock Therapy was eventually made to set Russia up for Plunder through the Fog, Chaos, and Confusion of the unfamiliar and uncharted Scenario.
Sachs is in – Shoulders Deep; and his hand aren’t clean from Russia…
Shock Therapy –
Reads a bit like UKRaine’s current Economic predicament of Western Investments+Ownership of Corporate Industrials, Agricultural Real Estate, and Mineral Ore.
And President Putin put an end to the newly Wave of West-Friendly Oligarchs’ Plunder of Russia. Despite the negative press(e.g., Lukoil), IMO Mr. Putin did the right thing by driving those Oligarchs Abroad. There was at least one Group of “exiled/uninvited” Oligarchs still meeting to plan the Takeover of Russia and turn Russia into a…
…Hey! …Wait a Minute… There are plenty of Jewish Diaspora on their Roll Call and amongst other “exiled” Oligarchs…
Add Soros. RAND, Wolfowitz, Blinken, Nudelman-Khagan, Yellen, Kolomoiskyy, Zelenskyy…
…do we see similar Patterns in Schemes and Profiles here???
We understand that the Khazar-Ashkenazi have been in an Ethnic Conflict with Russia for over a Thousand Years since Old Rus Destroyed the Khazar Kingdom/Khagnate (note “Khagan” most likely derived from that term) which had Jewish Royalty (Aristocrats presumed); but the emerging Diaspora prominence in Murican Federal Govt Leadership/Geopolitics and within the Atlantic Masonic-Zionist Hegemony – are revealing their Bias towards those Nasty Russia Conquest Schemes a bit too much and too far – now that those are out of the Hegemon-Plutarchy’s desperate reach.
I’ve actually seen a young Diaspora Murican Military Officer make a ridiculously stupid and asinine presentation of a proposed plan to interfere with Russia’s Influence and Trade in THE INLAND CASPIAN SEA using Coups and 3rd Party Militia in coastal Neighbors…
Due time Diaspora bury their Hatchet…
https://michael-hudson.com/1999/04/how-russia-may-create-a-more-viable-financial-and-fiscal-system/
https://michael-hudson.com/2023/06/on-obama-castro-general-mcarthur/
I kind of like PhD Hudson and his works. PhD Hudson ended up being on RT as a Guest Economics Commentator – several times on the Keiser Report; and has worked in China as well.
I figured PhD Hudson to be more in sync with Blended State-Private Economies we see in China and Russia.
-and is it appropriate to recall this interview?
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Sounds like one jew covering for another jew for his heinous actions.
Maybe you should have titled it: “How Jeffrey Sachs Raped Russia Then Joined The Other Side of The Grift”
I know your tribe has long memories, so I thought I would adopt a long memory too. Know thy enemy and all that yahwist stuff. And learning that Putin’s oligarchs were still selling gas to Western Europe and preventing Russia from actually hitting key Ukrainian infrastructure at the outset of the war didn’t dissuade me from this instinct, since they seem almost as anti-Russian as the jewish elite in the West. People don’t forget!
Thankfully, Oxford-educated trailer trash elitists of Clinton’s ilk are rare.
D.C. has long had a surplus of Russian-hating Jews and Wasps whose first
goal was to loot Russia and render it militarily impotent. Notably, Clinton
did not “feel the pain” of starving Russians since he was just another fake
liberal conman. Give Sachs credit for trying.
How did the “keep Russia weak” strategy work out for you, Neocons?
Yeah, whatever.
Is Mr Sachs a good doctor whose reputation must be restored at all costs?
Did he advised to administer the Poles and Russians the worst of medicine he found in the capitalist pharmacopoeia in good faith, in hope that the hospital board would acquiesce to dilute-delay it against its goals and best interest(s)?
Shall we feel compelled to peruse the Roget to find out a suitable adjective or epithet around the likes of innocence and gullibility?
What is the use of all this?
However hard the Sachsophonists puff and blow their instrument but that doesn’t effectively make good music.
It did not start in the 1990s, it already started in 1913 when the jews became the de facto rulers of the USA by creating the American central bank.
Mr. Unz, first I refer you to my often expressed theory of ‘minority niche filling’, as partially explained in this comment on Unz
https://www.unz.com/lromanoff/jews-and-revolutions/?showcomments#comment-5544713
Second, keep in mind that many of us once were guided by notions from Chomsky and other ‘radical left’ political analysts, but we ‘saw the light’, in one way or another, and now we are deeply suspicious when we are told that we should be instructed by yet another elite but dissenting Ivy League (Harvard trained in this case) tribal member.
As you can read in my brief comment linked to above, the theory of ‘minority niche filling’ postulates that whenever possible members of the minority tribe seek out and promote ideological opponents who are, at the same time, a member of the same tribe. Thus while seeming to passionately disagree they in fact AGREE and COLLABORATE on the key issue: which is promoting the dominance of their minority tribe. Mr. Sachs, you will agree, is allowed to be quite ‘present’ on major media sites.
Thus, while willing to accept Mr. Sachs as an honest critic of current US policy, can we ask, first:
1) What is Mr. Sachs’ position on September 11th, 2001?
2) What is Mr. Sachs’ position on the Covid ‘event’?
3) What is Mr. Sachs’ position on censoring dissenters who critique Jewish power in the US and its role in finance, media and government?
That is, is Mr. Sachs a REAL dissenter or is his job to distract us with an inaccurate map of power politics?
Unfortunately no mention of Putin and his team. After they took power Russian economy, military, life expectancy, etc completely turned around. Now Russia is modern democracy, respected by international community (except of course by US and EU for obvious reasons). One should only visit
You tube and see videos of Moscow, St.Petersbourgh, Vladivostok etc + look at Putin’s and Lavrov’s schedule of meetings with foreign Presidents and ministers who regularly visit Moscow.
I certainly am with Ron Unz in his [recent] discovery of the undoubted honesty and integrity of Jeffrey Sachs. Jeffrey Sachs is a contemporary hero.
Truth, we need more of it!
10 cheers to Jeffrey Sachs.
I am an Australian, from Melbourne Australia. In the 1990s our well-funded American political import cult [LaRouche] cast JS as evil incarnate and part of the Chicago Gang, ‘Sachsonomics’. He [JS], so our leader told us, did it all, as an evil agent of London.
I thank Jeffrey Sachs for now explaining.
Ron Unz points out that JS is now the target of lies to discredit him. I would say, now, from my experience, that JS, was planned, ALWAYS to be the fall guy!!
Having been a political grass-rooter since the 1960s [Vietnam era, ‘5-Eyes’, Senate staffer, etc, etc …], I can now sniff truth/lies.
Jeffrey Sachs is a truth teller.
Thank you.
Jeffrey Sachs should be U.S. Secretary of State.
Thanks for PhD Hudson and for the reminder he was sidelined as Good Doctor Sachs went in.
Diversity into Singularity of Conformity.
I very much agree. Putin got his hands dirty to get rich. To this day, he remains a Jewish servant and an obedient goy.
World hegemony is a formula for constant war, uprisings and conflict. The neo-cons have no problem in seeing hundreds of thousands of people die around the world as they enforce their policy. It’s completely inhumane and only a certain breed of individual could support it. It will result in the eventual ruination of the US which, unfortunately, might be a good thing for the rest of the world. What does it take to get rid of these neo-cons, to purge them and implement a saner policy?
WingsofaDove, you are right on target.
What I don’t understand is why the US did not promote Russia becoming a part of NATO. Putin asked to become a member Was he joking?
By becoming a member of NATO, the US would control Russia like it controls and has hegemony over all other NATO countries. It would allow the US to maintain hegemony over Russia, , so why didn’t they allow it?
Mearsheimer, MacGregor, Larry Johnson, Blumenthal, Ritter are great, but Sachs is the best in his clarity on the issues in part due to his long experience with Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
A very apt title because it is so obviously true — you can also file this under ‘muh democracy’ — no ‘peace dividend’, instead the
Jewishneocon version of the ‘strategy of tension’, namely a constant search for enemies to maintain the power and influence of the national security state, including a permanent wartime economy that has turned Americans (i.e. white people) into debt slaves while they are being demographically dispossessed: ‘muh democracy’ cannot even keep your town from being deluged with 20k Haitian savages.Even the stupidest people (and there are plenty of stupid people) must be waking up to the fact in that in the age of mass media, one person, one vote democracy does not result in good governance, no matter how sacrosanct the malevolent media class makes it out to be — every time I hear that something blah blah is ‘a threat to our democracy’, I know it couldn’t be a bad thing.
About a year ago I was not aware of Jeffrey D. Sachs.
It’s different now.
Thank you Jeffrey Sachs.
Thank you Ron Unz. Indeed,you have “….prompted large numbers of thoughtful people all across the world to discover those important facts for the first time”.
I do note my personal obervation.
The “West” can no longer support far flung “vanquished” countries.
The USA is facing it’s own debilitating conflict,competition.
Having spent decades involved with US conservation and environmental proceedings,”Economics” study on the limits to growth,population impacts, new information from different fields is another course available at a banquet of consequences.
Thank you Jeffrey D. Sachs and The UNZ Review.
The “West” can no longer support far flung “vanquished’ countries.
The USA,within it’s border,is facing debilitating conflict,competition and limits to growth.
Thank you. I would very much like to learn who was behind the “voucher” privatization scheme.
To everybody who thinks Trump is any better or different or Trump fans:
Video Link
Trump threatens with economic sanctions against any country that tries to leave the US dollar as a reserve currency, trades oil etc. with other than oil, leaves the FED/BOE-controlled central bank system. According to international law, sanctions are an act of war.
“You are not going to leave the dollar with me!”, said Trump.
“Im the best that ever happened to Israel and I will be that.”, said Trump in 2015.
Both Republican and Democrats are just as bad and as corrupt. The elites never give you any good options, only one or two bad ones that will both please the elite and people get fooled to voting one of their options.
The neocons were truly Jews, and the Clinton Administration were rule by swine.
What if, after joining NATO, Russia grew stronger and stronger economically and militarily? The other European NATO members might then found in Russia a more desirable partner, and leader, than the US of A. Oops!
Can’t you see what happened to China 10/20 years after it joined WTO? 😀
Very interesting article, with behind the scenes accounts of those momentous times. It ought not be forgotten that Poland’s fiercely aggressive nationalism did much to destroy the cohesiveness of the Warsaw Pact, along with similar ambitions in other member states. The idea that the dissolution of the Soviet Union was the triumph of Reagan or of western capitalism is pure moonshine. Communism proved to be such an “ineffective” system that it nevertheless managed to transform a broken feudal society into the world’s second strongest power, and did so even though the nation was the object of a worldwide economic boycott for 75 years. This in spite of being taken over by two tyrants, and being manipulated by FDR to do most of the heavy lifting in his mad campaign to destroy Germany, in a war that left a quarter of Russia a smoking ruin. And all those constant US attempts, year after year, to demonize and destabilize the government and sabotage the societies of the Soviet Union and its allies, spiced up with the continuous threat of nuclear annihilation – nah, had nothing to do with anything, let’s not talk about all that. Because, actually, they enslaved their own people – just like all our economic rivals do even to this very day, what an astonishing coincidence.
Thanks.
Yes, like most of the political whores in DC. The 58 standing ovations for ‘Yahu. Even the congressional black caucus knows who butters their bread.
I went to Italy and was called a racist for noticing /complaining about the negroes there…oy vey! The Jooz have almost conquered the Western World…almost.
When you say “neocon” is the same as “nigger” you antisemite scum. I hope the Mossad hunts you down
No Jew is your enemy. You are ours because you won’t accept us as the chosen people. It’s not our fault God made us to rule you.
Although I would not normally like him for a source … Shoigu just made that point. He says the US missed the chance to make Russia a vassal.
Actually, the evolution of the term “Neocon” was more complex than that. You might want to take a look at my article from last year on that subject:
https://www.unz.com/runz/the-neocons-and-their-rise-to-power/
The fact is, once a group gains enough power, there will always be outsider hangers-on that want to join in the fun. The essential core of the Neocons are Jews, with the goal to rule the World, through the US.
Well, look. As I emphasized, until a couple of years go I’d always vaguely assumed that Sachs had been substantially responsible for the 1990s Russian disaster. But once I finally looked into it, I decided that I’d been mistaken.
Perhaps Sachs has just hoodwinked me and I’d been correct all along. But when I read that one article in The Nation fingering him for the blame, I didn’t find it very convincing. Leftist journalists do occasionally get their facts garbled you know. And then lots of people repeat all those erroneous claims back and forth to each other for years until everyone accepts them. The Russiagate hoax is a perfect example of that.
If you can provide some solid evidence of Sachs’ guilt, please do so and I’ll reconsider my views. But if you can’t find anything, then perhaps it’s you who is mistaken.
You should understand that Sachs has spent his entire career as a very, very mainstream academic, and outside his personal area of professional expertise, I’d think that almost all his opinions have been entirely mainstream. Indeed, I’d probably disagree with many of them.
As far as I know, Sachs has never looked into 9/11 or said anything on that subject, so his views may not be so different than those of your next door neighbor who gets his information from The New York Times or maybe FoxNews. In a parallel example, a couple of years ago he’d read the book on the history of Palestine by his Columbia colleague Prof. Rashid Khalidi and explained he was totally shocked by what he’d discovered, saying he’d been forced to “unlearn” so much of what he’d always been assumed about that conflict.
Similarly, Sachs was appointed chairman of the Covid Commission, and initially assumed that the official Covid narrative was entirely correct, but he gradually discovered that it was entirely fraudulent and he was then courageous enough to publicly say so, which is how I first began to hear about him a couple of years ago.
As for censoring dissidents, if you watch his weekly segments on Napolitano’s podcast or numerous others, Sachs has become one of the most forceful of those, so I’d doubt he supports censoring himself. I’m not necessarily saying he’d be in total agreement with you on all those issues, let alone willing to say so publicly, but I honestly can’t think of any similarly prominent American establishmentarian figure of the last one hundred years who has gone as far as Sachs has on all those issues. For example, I have a great deal of respect and admiration for Prof. John Mearsheimer, but Sachs has gone much, much farther in his willingness to challenge the official narrative on so many hot-button issues.
The point I’m making is that Sachs is probably the most important American ideological defector of the last one hundred years, which I consider a pretty big deal.
And that I do think may partly explain why quite a number of anonymous commenters are so eager to damage his credibility and undercut his effectiveness.
Another glaring omission of Pat Buchanan’s primary challenge of Bush 41 in
1991-92 for many more, superior reasons.. Buchanan’s arguments were much sounder and more comprehensive than Sachs’ essay 33 yrs after the fact.
Thanks Dr. Sachs, you’re a righteous Jew.
The Neocon AIPAC Zionist control of America must be completely defeated.
Just to reiterate from my earlier post:
We have Economists like Economics PhD Michael Hudson – an Unz.com Contributor who WAS IN RUSSIA at the time PhD Sachs and associates arrived; and IIRC – was displaced by the Harvard Boys – write about the disastrous Oligarch Plunder brought upon by Sachs’ “Shock Therapy”.
I’ve linked the Articles where PhD Hudson opines a bit regarding Sachs’ Therapy and Team_Murica’s implementation of it.
I’ve personally seen PhD Hudson describe that scenario on RT on a few occasions.
It’s more than just a few commentators, I’ve seen the Harvard and Chicago Boys’ spin narratives, and the plunder and Putin’s cessation of it are well recorded.
INHO, it’s difficult to exonerate PhD Sachs regarding Russia from my perspective – whether his Plans were inadequate, fell apart, or was Hijacked – a ClusterFracked Sh!+Show happened that lasted for years; and IIRC, Russia were previously being advised by Economists of PhD Hudson’s Ideological Persuasion of reforming the Pre-existing Economic Systems of the former Soviet Union.
Sachs’ “Shock Therapy” only makes the Patient Nations-States into Murican Economic+Currency Dependencies…
…in other words, Dollar Dependent Colony-States…
Sadly my comment frequency has declined of late as I search for something, anything encouraging to say. I do however completely agree with the message in your comment. Thank you.
” They sought and until today seek a unipolar world led by a hegemonic US, in which Russia and other nations will be subservient.”
We need clarification on this.
I immediately ask – “why do the neocons want this sort of power?”
Curtis Yarvin’s answer is that power is the sort of thing that people want for its own sake. That the neocons just like the feeling of the power.
But I just…..don’t much agree…..seems like there is a lot of effort that must be expended for a cheap high.
That’s why I turn to my own theories, in an attempt to explain, “why do the neocons need this power?”
I only have two theories
1. The neocons/US elites want to spread LGBT stuff because a lot of them are LGBT and/or insanely allied with LGBT
2. The neocons are, to a great extent, a Jewish conspiracy.
The theory that we need the power for wealth …… well that theory seems rather strange, since there are so many other paths to wealth and decent GDP per capita. More importantly, these wars are extremely expensive. Heck, the standing US Military in peace-time is extremely expensive. It seems rather like, if they want money, they should prefer to invest in the USA. Grants to manufacturers, for example. The Elon Musk path.
I don’t know of any other theories. I’m not closed-minded to other theories.
Pardon the Typos and Grammar/Prose/Editing Gaffes.
Typing from a Phone with one thumb on auto-fill without the benefits of a Full Screen View and Word Processor Checks+Balances..
Indeed. When we view our many recent sleaze presidents, feel your pain trailer trash Billy is at the top. I kinda wonder how long we can continue as a viable place with people believing and voting for Jewish promoted and handled low life’s for President and Congress.
If he, only he had been a member with Dr. Mary Stewart Relfe and her humanitarian work in Russia and her team in Moscow what could have been? O what could have been? go to League of Prayer .com and see for yourself all the accolades and work they did on behalf of Russia and so much more!!
The warmongers running America need villains and enemies to justify their actions including the looting of their own country under the pretense of “national security”. That keeps the propagandized citizenry from seeing that their own government and the puppet masters who control it are their real enemy. That is obviously the role of Russia and Putin among others. If you want to understand why they are going to such lengths to keep outsiders like Trump out of power, just think how much they would lose if a Trump was able to foster a good relationship with Russia while ending the narrative that Putin is an evil imperialist.
He seems like a stand up guy. The fact that he, a jewish man, would reconsider his understanding of the history of Palestine shows me that he is interested in the truth, not political propaganda. Especially if that truth does not reflect well on his co-ethnics.
While I agree with your post 100%, it occurs to me that you might be on speaking terms with Sachs? And if not, you could give him a call and I’m sure he’d be very happy to talk to you.
So, why not give him a call and ask him, in polite terms of course, why he promotes the holocaust hoax, which he does, quoting “”Israeli society is immeasurably traumatized by the Nazi Holocaust, which remains the central fact of modernity and memory of every Jewish family of European roots in any part of the world.” – https://www.jeffsachs.org/newspaper-articles/gdbmwbtrntrz82gnkpl9zmzappkdff#
It could lead to an interesting discussion!
So a bunch of rapists walk into a house, tie a woman down and rape her, and then one of them says to the judge after they are all caught: “I was only watching but I didn’t rape her myself”. Yeah, right. I wonder how that would go down in a court of law. Ah! But there is a code precisely for that scenario:
Did you get that? “Counsels”. What was Sachs during The Rape of Russia? He was “only” a counselor. Right. He should be in jail along with the rest of the Jew rapists, booked under the principle of mens rea, or “guilty mind” — which in this case should really be “guilty mastermind”.
What I don’t get is how Unz, …
What could be the hidden layer of reality, in this case? That’s what we should all be aiming to figure out. What role in this deceiving Jew scheme is Sachs playing? Could he just be the “respectable face”, put out in public much as in the past the goy would be the poster boy for Jew schemes (Jung as Freud’s frontman, for example). But Sachs is a Jew, so what gives? Maybe the top Jews couldn’t find a white goy for the job. They have done such a good job of destroying whites that now there are none left, not even to act as poster boys.
Sachs is probably just playing the role of controlled opposition, just as was detailed in the Protocols:
To me, Sachs’ opinions critical of the “neocons” are part of a hidden agenda of control or manipulation, Thirteenth Floor style. Why didn’t he explain his links to Soros, for example? Does Sachs still work for Soros? Are they still best buddies, as it says on his Wikipedia page? Nothing that Sachs is doing or saying is shaking up the real power structure: the Empire of the Jews. All Sachs does is generate confusion and in-fighting, including here on this comment thread.
And that is exactly the job he was put out there to do: neutralize genuine opposition through controlled opposition, ultimately propping up the Jew Power System. Because the Jews know that no matter how much Sachs slams the “neocons” and the US government, he would never touch the real forbidden topics: Holohoax and Naming the Jew, for example. Sachs will never go there, so he’s pretty much a safe bet for controlled opposition — much like Chomsky and basically all other Jews (with only a few notable exceptions, such as Unz himself, to his eternal credit!).
I’ll leave my fellow commenters with a few more quotes from E. Michael Jones’ Barren Metal:
Israel’s Downfall: The Shocking Truth No One Wants to Admit! | Scott Ritter
September 10, 2018 The 9/11 Plan: Cheney, Rumsfeld and the “Continuity of Government” (COG)
Cheney and Rumsfeld were an old team. Major parts of their careers they had spent together. Both had no privileged family background. Cheney´s father worked as an employee for the department of agriculture, Rumsfeld´s father had a job in a real estate company. The families´ living conditions were modest. Both sons could go to university only with the backing of scholarships.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-911-plan-cheney-rumsfeld-and-the-continuity-of-government/5320879
September 12, 2024 9/11 Analysis: Where was Osama bin Laden on September 11, 2001?
An earlier version of this article was published in 2003 Author’s Note: Osama bin Laden’s whereabouts on September 10, 2001 were confirmed by a CBS News Report. Osama had been hospitalized on September 10th, 2001, one day before the 9/11 attacks.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/9-11-analysis-where-was-osama-bin-laden-on-september-11-2001/20986
To answer the question posed by the article title pithily:
Jew hubris.
“Jeffrey Sachs, unlike most of the folk who post at Unz.com, is a wise man who appreciates the intrinsic unity of humanity, this planet and our common fate. If that’s “globalism” count me in.”
What intrinsic unity?
What common(unist) fate?
We make our different choices and live with the different consequences as it should be. You are ridiculous. Stop watching Disney propaganda.
I have been saying the same for a long time to your commentators. This is my comment from May 2023:
https://www.unz.com/runz/assassinating-vladimir-putin/?showcomments#comment-5964549
I think the main reason why simple-minded commentators speak of “the West raped Russia” and egregiously a man with the integrity of Sachs “helped rape Russia”, is because of chauvinism, parochialism, narrow-mindedness, of so many here in the West, which is the point I’m making in the quoted comment.
You silly lame-brained heeb. I can honestly see why you trash cans think goy are stupid because anyone who would believe the cartoonishly goofy bullshit found in the Bible, Talmud et al has to be a nitwit. And stop threatening people on here or someone might take you up on it. My country doesn’t belong to you and you and your slimy fellow travelers would do well to accept that. I don’t give a shit who you are or who you think you are. How’s that grab you skippy?
Bullshit. But feel free to provide evidence.
Moronic reply by a simpleton.
An excellent parable!
If anyone wants to dig deeper – https://crushlimbraw.blogspot.com/search?q=SYNAGOGUE+OF+SATAN&updated-max=2023-10-17T12:17:00-07:00&max-results=20&start=0&by-date=false&m=1 – a list of headnotes to articles in DaLimbraw Library which lead into the subject of DaSynagogue of Satan (DSOS) and its worldwide control attained through DC/City of London etc. It doesn’t take a genius to connect the dots from neocon to DSOS – just common sense and a little curiosity.
“1. The neocons/US elites want to spread LGBT stuff because a lot of them are LGBT and/or insanely allied with LGBT
2. The neocons are, to a great extent, a Jewish conspiracy.”
I do have another not necessarily of my own origin but I’ve long since lost the trail of breadcrumbs back to the author of these ideas. The theory is that LGBT is a mechanism for totalitarian control. How it works is that the very foundation of traditional relationship dynamics is challenged. Nothing one does in the traditional way is correct. What is second nature for most is to be fought and eradicated. Those who embrace the new identity are rewarded with status and influence. An important end result of all this social upheaval is to weaken the influence of both family and religion so nothing challenges the power of the state. Other purposes are to get individuals bogged down in psychological warfare thereby draining their energy in a fake battle so they’re less able to fight the government. It seems resentful minorities can be quite useful to a totalitarian regimes. This didn’t start with LGBT after all.
I don’t actually disagree on the second point, per the first point the Jews can usually be classified as a resentful minority. If you’re not Jewish or anything but straight, white and not poor, the question is how to put the kibosh on the minoritarian antics.
The neocons aka zionists aka communists, chose hegemony over peace beginning in the 1948 creation of Israel by the zionist messianic jews in control of the ZUS and ZBritain, and with that creation the hounds of zionist wars were let loose on the world and thus began the zionist satanic drive to destroy the world and kill every gentile and muslim on earth, see The Protocols of Zion, and the Controversy of Zion by Douglas Reed, it can be had on amazon, also see the zionist plans in the Talmud and the Torah and the Kabalha , it is all there, the zionist blue print for the destruction of the world for zionism.
I trusted Sachs a lot more before I read this article. All that pure bull crap about the Soviets and Russians being a vanquished and defeated people.
Nobody vanquished or defeated Moscow. They dynamited the Soviet Union entirely on their own plan. And during the process America and Germany transferred to Russian elites a huge number of billions of dollars, which vastly increased the problem of the Oligarchs. The KGB/FSB remained firmly in control and still is.
Sachs being a leftist, imagined a huge supra-national welfare state was the cure for everything over there. Conservatives in Washington were recommending to the Russians that they ignore the lefties from Harvard and establish a Gold Standard while just abolishing that abomination of a Central Bank.
If the Russians had done that their GDP would be 5 to 10 times larger than it is now. With that prosperity they could have finagled a majority in Ukraine and hence no war.
Not saying he was dirty. Just saying his understanding of what was happening was distorted by the Hahvid and D.C. Swamp he swam in at that time. And so his proposed solutions went nowhere.
That said, if he wants to run next time, he has my vote. All we have are two war parties, we need a peace party.
Right there is the answer to your question. USA leadership did not trust that Russia could be controlled as easily as the Euro junior partners. A country with ~6k nuclear weapons and a very large White-Asian population cannot be trusted to become a junior partner.
Such is the brainwashed and diabolical existence of life in the U.S.A.!
We, the sheeple are just comatose idiots.
Ceasar was involvedi n corrupt poltics in Rome.
“It will be easier to scale back their standard of living, and let their children go off to die in a confusing war,…”
The same sickness is rotting the hearts and minds of Americans all over the place. Even parents whose children have been killed. They’ve become so sick, that they exalt virtue signaling above and beyond even the life of their now dead child.
Yes, only this time Putin is JFK and he doesn’t face a peace-seeking Khrushchev but a clique of rabid Zionists. It is not likely to end so well this time.
Most non jewish leftists have NO understanding of what “neoconservative” even means. When they think neocon, they think of some White gentile shabbos goy pos like dickhead cheney.
What they don’t understand, thanks to our kosher media, kosher people like sachs, and shabbos goy kosher propagandists is that NEO means NEW.
So why are they called NEW-conservatives? It is because the neocons were former trotskyite jewish far leftists that pushed the whole “minorities are infallible” narrative and “White people bad” agenda in the west, AND they wanted dumb non jews to believe that minorities were ONLY infallible in the jewish diaspora (where, conveniently, jews were the minority).
HOWEVER in regards to israel, these jewish hypocrites wanted non jews to see the minority in israel (the Palestinians) as the fallible ones, and jews in israel as the infallible ones (convenient again for their tribal ethnic interests).
So, these far left wingnut jews like irving kristol and others became neo, or “NEW” conservatives.
In reality, they were still open borders pushing far social leftists for the west, but they pushed a pro israel, anti muslim, warmongering agenda for israel…..and also for israel to be an ethnostate.
Interesting how (((sachs))) never seems to pay much attention to the ethnic background of the (((neocohens))). Cohencidence?
The Neocons were part of the Deep State, which was part of the CIA Project Azorian, that caused the collapse of the USSR in 1991 by Massive Cyber-war due largely to the reverse engineering of Soviet Submarine K129 Nuclear Bomb and Missile Codes and other Nuclear artifacts and debris.
Of course the Neocons were not going to choose peace over Total World Domination.
One might conclude that Sachs would probably not have been privy to Project Azorian at that time.
Almost no one was.
It’s hard to think of another of case of someone at Sachs stature— a personal advisor to U.S. Presidents and world leaders, top positions and professorships at top Ivy League school, must-read for the New York Times crowd, regular on Morning Joe, et al.— chucking it all for truth, sanity, and world peace in this world.
Sachs is a hero in my book.
If Trump wins he needs to make Sachs the Secretary of State.
NEO-CONSERVATIVE PUPPET RAT RONALD REAGAN WAS A TREASONOUS, JEW-CONTROLLED POLITICIAN WHORE
Reagan brought the Jew-controlled Neo-Conservative faction into the Republican Party.
Reagan put a member of the Bush Organized Crime Syndicate on the ticket in 1980.
Reagan pushed open borders mass legal immigration and amnesty for illegal alien invaders.
Reagan gave amnesty to 3 million illegal alien invaders in 1986.
Reagan’s three great mistakes:
1) Bringing the Neo-Conservatives into the Republican Party;
2) making Bushy Boy #1 his VP;
3) giving amnesty to 3 million illegal alien invaders in 1986.
The massive federal government debt of Ronald Reagan was a combination scheme of Reagan and the Federal Reserve Bank. The ruling classes of the European Christian nations went full-bore financialization and debt for the USA is a function of having the global reserve currency.
Reagan’s three good deeds:
1) He saw the Russian people as separate from the Soviet Union;
2) He went whole hog military Keynesianism;
3) Reagan’s wife, Nancy, never liked the money-grubbing scumbag rats in the Bush Organized Crime Syndicate.
Thank you, Ron Unz, for publishing this article by Sachs.
I must admit that for years I had been blaming him somewhat for the economic crash in Russia, especially for the recommended remedies for the “ruble overhang”. Just a few years ago, I read an article by Janine R. Weber (link to “The Harvard Boys Do Russia”) which confirmed my views.
Now I see that I may have been doing Sachs an injustice. He might have been another victim of the US media’s pervasive dishonesty. He may actually be sincere in wanting to avert the looming nuclear disaster that awaits us all.
I’d say it’s common knowledge, really. You can have a look at Marina Salye’s investigations, for one.
Of course not, his job description is given to him by the deep state. He is a controlled opposition figure and has a prominent role in the UN on behalf of the deep state. He can be used later to be a “good Jew” or “good American” asset in the eyes of opponents of empire.
The only person worth listening to these days, when it comes to Jews, are Palestinians like Yahya Sinwar and Abdel Bari Atwan.
The fact that Sachs is on Judge Napolitano’s show in my eyes discredits his other guests as well. I tuned out of Judge Nap after seeing Sachs as a guest, and also because of the nonsense spewed on his show repeatedly about Turkey or the Sunni Arabs doing something against Israel, especially Colonel McGregor seems very naive about the Sunnis and gives them too much weight and respect. They are nothing but lackeys. The fact that they are presented otherwise suggests there is disinformation at play.
I boycott all Western commentators and analysts too. Westerners and Jews are two sides of the same coin, with very few exceptions such as a true dissident like David Duke (seldom heard of) in the US, or Alain Soral (jailed) in France.
Not necessarily. Before the United Nations, we had two world wars in something like twenty years. Since the UN was formed, we’ve had no world wars in over 70 years. So there is some hope for the world, if we can make the UN work better, or create a more functional descendent.
Yes, but the fragmentation need not happen for centuries; some Chinese dynasties have lasted that long. This will give time for humanity to spread throughout the solar system. Then insanity on Earth may not result in total extinction of h. allegedly sapiens.
In the 1990s, Bill Clinton and the JEW/WASP Ruling Class of the American Empire were colluding and conspiring with shady plutocrat oligarchs to use a moment of Russian vulnerability to steal and rob and rape Russia. The 1990s Russian voucher scheme and the other privatization schemes to hand over resources and companies and create new companies might have kicked into high gear after Jeffrey Sachs had ceased involvement with the former Soviet Union.
I always lumped Jeffrey Sachs in with the other crooks in the Clinton Organized Crime Syndicate that were siphoning loot from the dead carcass of the Soviet Union.
This guy Anders Aslund says he and Jeffrey Sachs and David Lipton got muscled out of Russia in 1994.
Tweet from 2022:
“Conservatives in Washington were recommending to the Russians that they ignore the lefties from Harvard and establish a Gold Standard while just abolishing that abomination of a Central Bank.”
If you don’t mind, can you name some people or an institute advocating for a Gold Standard back in 91. I certainly wouldn’t mind using this info occasionally.
I’d rather you didn’t lump me in with the Jew and his pet nigger, thanks.
“Debbie did Dallas” and “The Harvard Boys Did Russia.” The Ivy League theorists
who could not run a hot dog stand, attempted to revive a huge, moribund economy
with the eager assistance of financial gangsters, some homegrown and others
imported from Britain and the U.S., and bringing enough money to buy all vital
Russian assets at fire sale prices.
Let’s guess who the winners were. I have no doubt about Professor Sachs’ intentions
being honorable, but he was stonewalled by the crooked Clinton administration
when he sought financial help for Russia, and the World Bank pretended to be
oblivious to Russia’s desperate need for outside capital.
As far as I understand, when the USSR came to an end the basic idea was to create market economy in Russia instead of government owned (more or less) economy with price controls, state planning etc plus a wast black market to fill in the gaps. Nearly worthless currency for the public and foreign currencies and special stores for party members. And needless to say, a massive privatization program was required for this to happen. Without such a program there would be no market economy to speak of. And I think everyone involved basically agreed, including the Russian government and Russian elites.
Back then Russia didn’t have much of a tradition of laws, even private ownership wasn’t protected by laws so a legal framework needed to be built, institutions and so forth in order for said market economy to work. Judging by what happened, with several people becoming billionaires after buying assets for few cent’s on the dollar, it’s clear, corruption was a huge problem.
Just recently I listened to Matt Taibbi who was journalist in Russia back then explaining how heavy weight players in Russia established their own news outlets to support their agenda. Journalism was flourishing after being curbed for many decades and journalists were eager to report what was going on. But it wasn’t very secure profession and many of them were killed for what they published, likely by rival oligarchs in some cases. (This was before the Putin era). The point is, in this enormous transformation and power vacuum the sharks really came out and they were many and strong. This was a really wild period for Russia.
I hope I am being fair to Russia, but under these circumstances, with weak government(s) this massive transformation was enormously difficult even with the best economic advisors giving the best possible advice. Note I am not saying that was the case in Russia. In a reply to criticism on Twitter few years ago regarding the ‘shock therapy’, Jeffery Sachs responded something along the lines he proposed or hoped the privatization (or transformation) would take six years, not six months!
Judging by this article and many other things Mr. Sachs has said in recent years it looks like he was on the macro-economic side of things, trying to find ways to stabilize government financial situation, exchange rate of local currencies (Poland and elsewhere). However there is no doubt he would have recommended wast privatization in Russia, like pretty much all western economist would have. What he recommended if anything in this regard I don’t know, but he is clearly not happy with the outcome. Here the devil is in the details and what seems to have happened is the Russian communist system was torn down with nothing to replace it. It was done recklessly, way too fast resulting in a (corrupt) fire sale. And likely many state owned giants in the natural resources area would have been better left alone, belonging to the Russian state (Norway for example).
In the 1990’s we had privatization here in Iceland. I was very much against the whole thing back then. Part of the problem was political corruption and none-transparent methods of selling these companies. The state run mail service was privatized (it’s been in constant decline since then) the state run cement production was sold. The buyers sold some assets for more than they paid for the company and we have imported all cement since then -costing us fortune in foreign currencies we can only acquire by selling goods or services abroad. The state run fertilizer production – same story. One of our biggest construction company was sold. After buying it the new owners sold land belonging to the company for several times the amount they paid for the company altogether. State run telephone provider connecting every home and company in Iceland, providing affordable world class internet service in comparison to what the ‘free market’ later provided. The buyers went bankrupt and the state (we taxpayers) only got fraction of the sale price. Not to mention the state run banks that after privatization almost bankrupted Iceland back in 2008 after few years of ‘free enterprise’ financial engineering and the rest of it. It turned out the state only got fraction of the original sale price, the rest evaporated in the bankruptcies. As it happens we didn’t have any Jews to blame and certainly not Jeffery Sachs. This was all done by our very own financial ‘vikings’ – most of whom educated in great universities in England and the U.S. It seems privatization is difficult thing where ever you look. Not just in Russia.
It’s likely true Russia didn’t get the best advice and it’s a cool story to blame the advisors. Whatever they proposed the story is much more complex and Mr Sachs role in it is – well not well established but by his own account. I find him credible. He comes across as decent man and I find it extremely difficult to believe he was part of a scheme to bring Russia down on it’s knees and hand few oligarchs enormous wealth with the Russian people paying the price in hunger and deaths. If so he certainly has had change of heart or is – like our host put it – a world class liar. If so this begs the question – why is he so critical of Israel these days? Why is he a champion of human rights and fierce critic of U.S. foreign policy and the Covid fiasco? This is difficult to put together in one man.
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But we can look at Jeffery Sachs differently – regardless of what we think he did in Russia. From pure strategic standpoints he is extremely valuable. That is if we don’t like the current state of affairs regarding the war in Ukraine, the Gaza massacre, the power of the neocons, or the power of the Israeli lobby in U.S. politics. Mr. Sachs has great credibility worldwide, his views are very difficult to ignore or shoot down because of this. And he is very smart and articulate. I use him extensively to red-pill people and he is like a battering ram on steroids. The average bloke who has it’s world-views from the western MSM has pre-programmed allergy to anything that may come from the ‘extreme right’ from ‘racist’ or indeed anyone with something ‘questionable’ in his background enabling them to shut down their brain and ignore the whole thing, regardless of facts or solid arguments. Remarkably Mr. Sachs passes through such defenses like a hot knife through butter. He isn’t known for ‘wrong thinking’ and usually there is no rebuttal. Just silence. Hopefully indicating they are forced to consider his views.
Again, from strategic perspective: In my view – not happy with current state of affairs – it’s ironic if ‘our’ camp is hurling attacks against Mr. Sachs because he may not be perfect? That’s a massive self-goal and makes no sense at all. He may or may not have some skeletons in his closet but I am just fine ignoring all of that. Thankfully I truly believe this isn’t the case so I am not at all bothered to promote him.
Sorry, this was a bit too long.
YOU CANT FIX IT….ITS BROKEN!
Wow….are we stuck in rut talking about this garbage day after day??
Lets move on. That means moving on without billionaires, corrupt governments, scamming murderous jews, wars, famine, poison medicine food air and water, secrecy, over taxation and taxation without representation, putting up with uppity niggas, karens and kevins, murdering babies….What is it that you can say is good in the world? And why is that?
Its time to start our own societal norms, structure and being independent from this scum who only want to control everything. Why do we waste our time and energy discussing how fckd up things are and trying to have conversation with sick-minded inbred bloodlines who have shown their true colors. They do not want to listen to you. They are moving forward with their own ideas, which isn’t good for us. So why don’t we move on without them?
Those in charge do not care about you. You are nothing to them and they would squash you like a bug if given a chance. You want to have talks, negoitations with these insane twisted ‘leaders’!
Billionaires and trillionaires should be on WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE posters….all of them. They are all rotten, and their wealth and power has led us to where we are today. They are all garbage and would not be missed, and we could use their wealth to correct the wrongs they were complicit in.
Just look at the title to this article and the picture? Are you interested in this? Hullabaloo!
Sir, thank you for marvellous article. The Ooze (abbreviated US), that is, the Ooze of the Arsehole (abbreviated USA), is a real monster.
A good article about Jeffrey Sachs’ personal involvement in the transition of the Soviet Union as it fell apart to become the Russian Federation. All I can say is that the demise of the Soviet Union was all planned out by the Pope, John Paul II and the Vatican, and the western powers, mainly the United States. Have you ever wondered how Gorbachev after this demise of the Soviet Union, forms a NGO, foundation, just like the Clintons or Bill Gates or George Soros, suddenly becomes very rich. Gorbachev got rich because he did the work and bidding of the Russian, European and American Oligarchs which are mostly Jews.
Jeffrey Sachs, is also a Jew, but his role is to play the part of Controlled Opposition in the Hegelian
dialectic of Pro vs. Con in the Problem-Reaction-Solution form OR the other form of
Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis. His role is one of obfuscation , confusion, etc. like they say to muddy the waters. This creates the situation of the wack-a-mole game, where so many Jews, whether true,
crypto, fake or Khazarian or Ashkenazi or even Jews converting to Christianity / mostly Catholic, occupy all positions or all sides,that the common John/Joan Q Public is unable to figure it out. Think of the Warren Commission on JFK assassination, or the 9/11 report. Confusion and loss of will reigns supreme. That is what Jeffrey Sachs is all about! That is his job!
Ron Unz is spot on about Professor Sachs. And I think that many of the people now attacking Sachs as having been a key player in the evils done to Russia after the collapse of the Marxist USSR are by people serving Neocon interests.
if Neocons were Jews and only Jew things would be a lot easier.
Of course, I also know that Jewish international finance has been indispensable to WASP empire since the days of Oliver Cromwell. So that plus all the Judaizing that defines Anglo-Saxon Puritanism means that it was unavoidable for WASP culture to be philo-Semitic, increasingly so.
The simple anti-Semites tend to see Jewish nefariousness only in terms of cultural and moral Liberalism, while the truth is that Jewish money has always funded all WASP imperial warring. And people who embrace or just accept WASP empire approve of all that WASP imperializing.
That understood, Neocons are not much more than another set of pro-imperialists for WASP desires to rule the entire world.
You cannot separate WASP imperialism from international Jewish finance. You cannot solve The Jewish Problem without also solving the WASP Problem.
“Common knowledge” is not evidence. For example it is common knowledge that there’s a ‘man in the sky’ who created us and cares about us deeply and will burn us in hell if we do something of which he disapproves. I’ve asked many times, for evidence, from the proponents of theman in the sky, of the existence of TITS but never any response, so obviously there is no evidence at all.
When I lived in the Republic of Mongolia almost twenty years ago, I experienced at least a parallel process to what happened in Russia. Mongolia was made into a Soviet controlled State. In theory it was independent but it always voted in United Nations in support of the Soviet bloc and it depended on lavish funding from the Soviet Union. In consequence, its economic development was backward but its social development turned a Lama culture into a socially advanced Western culture. When funding from the Soviet Union dried up, its State resources were privatised and all Mongolians were issued with shares. The mass of the population soon sold them to the former Communist elite population for material goods. Twenty years ago, most of the population lived in crumbling infrastructure. A decade ago the capital city centre was burnt down in riots. A Genghis Khan cult and “neoNazi” ideology took over. Again that parallels Russia lite with Putin and heavy with Zelensky.
To install capitalism, a fatal form of omnicidal cancer, upon a country, is an act of evil and malice. Capitalism has ended humanity and most life on Earth, but the proles simply refuse to open their eyes. They will be forced WIDE, soon.
Agree, see the book Trance Formation of America by Cathy O’Brien and see her videos on youtube, she confirms everything you said about Reagan and more, the book can be had on amazon.
All of the disasters Sachs names have nothing to do with “US arrogance”: they have everything to do with Jew chutzpah. The Jews use the US as their big stick and pummel everything in their path to hasten the coming of the Jew Mashiach — that is, the Anti-Christ. Basically ,”US foreign policy” IS Jew eschatological prophecy.
The bombing of Serbia is nothing but Jews bombing Christians; the withdrawing from Missile Treaties is nothing but Jews planning to bomb Russia; the attempt to overthrow Syria’s al-Assad, is nothing but the Jew paving the way toward “Greater Israel” (as they are doing in Gaza); “NATO” is just a Jew attack dog ordered to bomb Libya to make the neighborhood safer for Israel; and Ukraine is just another Jew-led eschatological playground as well. In all of these projects the Jews fleece the population of the West by the trillions while they kill the population of the Rest by the millions.
And Sachs is oh so surprised that…
In this Jew-led world order, Sachs, the jewcons envisioned that the Jews and the Jews alone would determine the fate of humanity. But two can play at these End Times games. Just take a look at these quotes from the transcript of the video below, in which Aleksandr Dugin gives us a feel for the depth of Russian Messianism, which reverses the signs of Jewish Messianism:
If a nuclear war should happen, we will all die. That is what unites us all.
I notice that the countries committing genocide — right now, right this instant — are both capitalist (the US and Israel). One of these capitalist countries is the only country that has actually dropped nuclear bombs on cities, and the other capitalist country is threatening to use nuclear weapons on Lebanon.
The world is less likely to end if it is communist or socialist: that is the track record, as history has proved. This reason alone should make communism or socialism preferable.
While an interview or discussion with Sachs, whether in written or video form, would have inherent interest, a far more compelling discussion would be one involving both Sachs and E. Michael Jones. Anyone who has read even a chapter or two of Barren Metal will be aware that Jones’s knowledge of the wholesale theft of the Russian economy and his criticisms of Sachs are much more substantial than the sort of sneering, half-baked generalities* that Ron Unz quite legitimately deprecates.
Many of the commenters in this thread who have done a volte-face on Sachs have succumbed, I believe, to what appears to be the man’s disarming frankness. Like them, I too find Sachs difficult—indeed, almost impossible—to disbelieve. But it is precisely for that reason that I wish to see Sachs confronted, one on one, by Jones, who is another man with both an informed opinion and an outsize ego.
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*Of which I myself, alas, am not entirely innocent.
Did post Soviet Russia lose as much money as the Biden administration seized from Putin’s Russia since the Ukraine was started?
Yes, and imagine my ‘shock horror’ when I realised the evil pushed upon Austfailia by the Sydney-spiv-in-a-suit, disguising his evil capitalism-adjunct neoliberalism as ‘economic rationalism.’ GRRR!
Then:
This from your
Apologies for this delayed response [jet-lag inducing event = ‘feeble excuse’]; agree and suppose it’s a case of “physician, heal thyself,” since a) they just don’t listen and b) that may be our only route to recovery, not to mention stopping the psychopathic mass-murder of the rightful native owner occupiers of Palestine.
Too bad that the ‘balance of power’ in RoW deploys no effective ‘stopper’ – “Silence = Acquiescence” rgds
Regarding economy and inflation, state and taxation, I recommend Peter Schiff, who is a brave austrian school economist. Totally censored commentator and author.
Also Peter Schiffs father, Irwin Schiff, was a very active and vocal activist and an author against danger of the state, inflation and taxation as theft. Peter Schiff has said how nobody had to pay income tax in the USA in the past and his father never paid income tax at all, until he became public and vocal about it and told everybody to stop paying income tax as well. Only after that the state went after him and set him a long prison sentence for it. After that he was dealing with cancer and according to his son Peter Schiff, he died in the prison because he couldnt get treatment by the state. After that, Peter Schiff has been warning why its dangerous to let the state run the healthcare, because you might be left without care for example.
I think Peter Schiff has also recommended his fathers, Irwin Schiffs book Federal Mafia.
And they have both been jewish! Can you believe that? Those fucking jews every time. Its always the jews! Its always jews running things! Anyway, check out Peter Schiff and Irwin Schiff.
BERKELEY BOY… A SUGGESTION FOR YOU AND OTHERS WHO CANNOT FIGURE OUT JEWS:
GET BIBLE OUT AND READ DEUTERONOMY. IT IS ALL THERE. YAHWEH IS A HOMICIDAL MANIAC AND HAS USED biological gene selection to refine the jew genome. Pure Jew is, in plain language, evil. Yahweh is pure evil.
Jews believe in Darwin as I do but, how I differ from Darwin is this: Others have a right to exist apart from myself. Lincoln claimed that niggers were not to be mixed with whites, but that we did not have a right to steal from them. Sounds about right to me.
Jews believe that goyim exist only for Jews to rob, cheat and steal …etc
Joe Webb
I hope I live long enough to see jews wiped out thru whatever means.
What is the responsibility of Russians in this affair …
I mean, this was former superpower that was sticking its nose in a variety of places, lording it over a variety of people, just like their numero-uno enemies the dread “Anglo-Saxons”.
Did Russia have no agency? Were there no economists, intellectuals, …, in former Soviet Union to think things through?
Also, Mr. Sachs still doesn’t give us the skinny on just who was financing the Jewish Oligarchs. Internet rumor has it was the Tribe from City of London. Who done it?
‘Hey! What’s that there, over yonder? Is it a dog turd? Oh, no-it’s Anders Aslund’.
FAR, far too late. Ecological collapse is very advanced and accelerating, and the capitalist psychopaths of the West REFUSE to alter their greed-crazed course, even to save their own spawn, let alone that of humanity.
Keating done alright out of capitalism. A millionaire pig farmer-how appropriate! BUT, compared to the current ruling vermin he appears as a veritable Apollo. The love of Bruckner was a dead giveaway. A turgid byway on the road to Western ruination.
As @Vidi points out in a separate comment, humanity’s unity is inexorable.
That’s especially the case during the Anthropocene, defined as “an unofficial unit of geologic time, used to describe the most recent period in Earth’s history when human activity started to have a significant impact on the planet’s climate and ecosystems.”
I didn’t mention the terms communism or socialism, but I do believe a common framework for human activity is necessary if human civilisation is to survive and thrive – and sustain a biodiverse, healthy and beautiful planetary environment.
Within that protective integument, freedom and individuality can flourish long into the future.
Without it, humanity doesn’t have much of a future.
It’s time to appreciate that we are collectively in a metamorphic phase, like it or not. Accepted historical verities (eg. war is inevitable) have less and less relevance as humanity undertakes this transition. The butterfly doesn’t benefit from pretending it’s still a caterpillar.
Ok so maybe Mr. Sachs didn’t mastermind the JEW oligarch takeover of Russia as he vehemently denies here and I don’t have endless hours to turn every stone to fact check him but the “neo-cons” ARE a bunch of typical insane and blood thirsty Jews that have are responsible for the deaths of millions of innocent people and should be shown no mercy. They should be treated as the Israelis treat Palestinians.
Just in case anyone should try to claim the neo-cons aren’t Jews and that THEY are responsible for the war in Iraq (as well as the “7 countries in 5 years”, 9/11 and the rest of the atrocities mentioned in the article above, let Israel’s paper brag about it for you: https://www.haaretz.com/2003-04-03/ty-article/white-mans-burden/0000017f-e398-d804-ad7f-f3fa5d520000
As Jew neo-con and mastermind Richard Perle tries to claim anyone stating “neo-cons are Jews” and they are responsible for the war in Iraq are, wait for it…..anti-Semitic! https://www.newsmax.com/amp/newsfront/pat-buchanan-paul-wolfowitz-neocons/2014/06/17/id/577619/
Richard Perle is another shameless lying kike that should be slowly tortured and killed with the rest of the neo-cons. They have earned it.
“It’s time to appreciate that we are collectively in a metamorphic phase, like it or not. Accepted historical verities (eg. war is inevitable) have less and less relevance as humanity undertakes this transition. The butterfly doesn’t benefit from pretending it’s still a caterpillar.”
Pretty to think so… You aren’t dealing in details just dogma. I don’t believe global warming is man made but I do believe our various ventures do pollute our water and air so should be regulated. I reject the carbon-credit scam as a redistributionist ploy that unduly burdens the Western middle and working classes. Not all citizens of first world countries are rich and green schemes that hinder industry in one part of the world so that goods are produced cheaper in countries with lower standards leave too many people without good-paying jobs. This shrinks the middle class while increasing the income gap.
Other burdens are having to build with expensive approved materials that really aren’t making houses or businesses all that energy efficient. However, the businesses that follow the government formula first get the market share. Related: I just threw away the second one of those light bulbs that supposedly last forever. This is in a six month period after replacing an old-style bulb that lasted more than a year.
You don’t get it. (((tongue planted firmly in cheek)))
Ron Unz says the professor, Prof. Sachs had a seat at the table.
Unz says Putin praises Sachs and false things circulate about the media.
What’s good enough for Ron, should be persuasive enough to “convince ” the rest of us.
Yet, there he is right at the fore-front.
Sachs like Sy Hersh and Scott Ritter has to be at the center of it all.
Beware, here comes the straw man.
Would Sachs be as credible had he been silenced, completely deplatformed and reduced to entry-level employment or abject poverty?
Gday all,
Here is the Sachs chapter from Barren Metal by E. Michael Jones (note the page numbering has a glitch):
https://archive.org/details/e.-michael-jones-barren-metal-a-history-of-capitalism-as-the-conflict-between-labor-and-usury
Which claims Sachs was a major player in the looting :
His main source is Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.
https://archive.org/details/fp_Naomi_Klein-The_Shock_Doctrine
You could be right. But I prefer to be optimistic: for every scenario of doom, there’s another of sunshine. Our survival is not guaranteed, as we are seriously devastating the planet. But some cautious optimism is justified IMHO: solar power for low-carbon energy, many times more energy than the world is using right now; precision fermentation for drastically cutting the acreage that we use for feeding livestock; a revamped United Nations that can bring some peace to the world; and so on. There is reason for some hope, but we will have to work for it. This site is a start.
As you suggest, virtually every ethnic group is cursed by opportunists, thieves and financial manipulators of every kind, but you must concede that the small Jewish population has produced an inordinate, if not mind-blowing number of financial criminals. Bear in mind that many are not caught, but to be fair Jews are heavily overrepresented in the financial sector, so that partially explains their excess crimes.
Concerning Prof. Sachs’ political views, I’m inclined to take my allies where I find them, issue by issue, and to date he hasn’t expressed any opinions that are much different from mine, other than my dread of the insidious growth of Jewish financial and political power in the U.S. and the other English-speaking nations. If Sach wants to maintain his credibility he cannot continue to ignore the danger of excessive Jewish influence
One frequent accusation is that he is presenting a “limited hangout,” which is interpreted as mixing truth and fiction, joined in such a way as to confuse and deceive the public about the facts and one’s actual position on an issue. That’s not the case. He’s simply avoiding one critical issue that might be his Rubicon.
And…?
Sadly perhaps,
doesn’t tell me anything; my classic cd-collection being limited to mostly LVB & WAM, Böhm versions where possible. Agree to “the current ruling vermin” being our ‘democratic’ enemies [hardly working for us, rather mostly against us, we the people]. One of my ‘pet peeves’ is electricity privatisation [aka monopoly theft, like most privatisations], and all attacks on the original Medibank were/are criminal. I cannot abide AusBC lies, and condemn all [ruinous!] pandering[*] to ((them)). rgds
* {pander
verb (pander to) gratify or indulge (an immoral or distasteful desire or habit).
noun
1 dated a pimp.
2 archaic a person who panders to the desires of another}
PS A fair exchange is no robbery; but the ‘covert criminal cabal,’ be it ‘driven’ by money-grabbing oligarchs, ‘powered’ by ((them)), both or something else, are certainly incredibly greedy, and despite ‘having the most’ seem always to want more. Then that ‘more’ is driving the world off the AGW-cliff – which means not ‘merely’ us but that ‘covert criminal cabal’ et al. are targetted for ‘down the gurgler.’
IOW, whoever they and/or ((they)) are, not only setting out to murder us [we the people] all [as in Gaza, say], but they or ((they)) are ensuring their own suicide. Hmmm.
My own ‘philosophy’ = rationality, theirs or ((theirs)) obviously irrationality.
In complete contrast to the Sydney-spiv-in-a-suit, who said “What would you prefer, an irrational .. whatever?”
Come the revolution; we must rid the world of the tiresome ‘covert criminal cabal’ = them and/or ((them)) or whatever. The world *could* be such a lovely place, our lives ditto.
Carpe diem = enjoy even the smallest parts of every pico-sec.
Poland in contrast to Russia did very well. Soviet regime ‘s spiritual,cultural,politucal,social and intellectual impacts on Poland was no differnt from Russia . Why did one do so well before 2000 ?
Complex econmic corruption was brought to Russia by US. Poland couldnt have been looted.There was not much to loot. Russia was the gold mine.
Its no wonder West was repeatedly angry with Russian attempts to rein in the oligarchs . A few of these thieves were heaped on with accolades by Congress. Lantos even introduced quite a few .
Yes America corrupted and west looted the country .
Like I said, you wrote bullshit.
An intelligent person stick to evidence, data, reliable sources, a fool will make sweeping statements and look around for approval.
There are many investigations into the corruption of political leaders, including by releasing leaked papers (Panama’s and “Pandora’s are recent examples). None of them have discovered any dirt in Putin’s actions.
There are also anecdotes from American observers narrated by Ritter of Putin’s dealings during his time in St. Pete telling how unlike all others behind him, he was professional and never asked for anyhing for himself, a total turn around from previous administrators.
We have to accept and deal with the fact that for whatever reason, and unlike us here in the West unfortunately, Russia has been blessed with an outstanding stateman, both in terms of intelligence, integrity and patriotism. This is one of the reason he is so much hated by our mediocre, mendacious and corrupt politicians.
Okay, but whose “basic idea?” US & UK vultures were intent on asset stripping and stealing resources. Some native oligarchs also arose by looting. Financial journalist Lucy Komisar has fully exposed Bill Browder’s schemes, including the Magnitsky Act that burned possible friendly Russia/US relations. https://www.thekomisarscoop.com/
Tragic as the current state of affairs may be, they herald the demise of Western imperialism. If only ZATO can decline gracefully, we may survive. As for the relevant [deep] powers, Benz says it in a minute. Concise is nice!
PS
Matt Taibbi is such a disappointment, claiming ignorance prevents him from having an opinion on Palestine. Which Zionists have him by the balls? How compromised may he have been all along?
“You cannot solve The Jewish Problem without also solving the WASP Problem.”
Agree… it seems that China and the BRICS-countries understand this. Do you agree?
Sadly, I think this is a valid historical analogy.
This isn’t something that Professor Sachs chooses to dwell on as much as it deserves to be, in fact, hardly at all, to the point where it could be said without injustice, that it is built into his political personna.
Show me a Jew against (realisable) Open Borders and I’ll show you a very rare ostracised Jew, not one who, while going against the obvious mainstream drive, keeps naming Jews as such w-o-n-d-e-r-f-u-l people (oh that wonderful Naomi Klein (LOL!!!!) or that staunch leftist “what’s his Wexler”!!!), over and over. Shit it’s monotonous as well as funny. Mostly they’re not even aware of it. Lenin came up against it with the Bund and Crypto-Bundists and it was only half – fake – suppressed by his over-repetitive, long winded, boring, badgering. A big tick for Dr Kevin MacDonald! Christ Almighty, it literally never ends.
On the other hand, as a bit of an agitator in my time I recognise the visceral sincerity of Sachs in the Irish video inveighing against that Mick dill apologist of the Zionist war against Russia, far more than anything else he says here.
The only downside of giving a new respectability to this tireless pacifist advocacy by Dr Sachs is outlined above. Probably a worthwhile trade.
Me? For what it’s worth, I’d give him – “Critical Support”.
The bloodthirsty warmonger and liar Nuland-Kagan will die in the same infamy as the jewish witch and warmonger Madeleine Albright. Let children of Nuland-Kagan and Albright remember that they are progeny of the major war criminals and sadists. The bad seed in the midst of humanity.
The many victims of Nuland-Kagan and Albright must sue these witches’ progeny.
On the topic of Holo-museums and their profitable and fraudulent shoah schema:
In Ukraine, Banderites (self-proclaimed Ukrainian Nazis) have united with Zionists in Judea War on Russia; see the monstrous jew Nuland-Kagan (from the warmongering Kagans’ clan) and her collaboration with the Ukrainian Nazi Party during the illegal regime change in Kiev in 2014.
Moreover, all jewish members in the US congress and ALL major jewish organizations in the US have been supporting the weaponization of Banderites (self-proclaimed Ukrainian Nazis). In addition, the absolute majority of the jewish diaspora in the collective west have been firmly supporting the israeli fascists who have been openly genociding the Palestinian children and women. Time for the jewish genociders living both in Israel and diaspora to pay massive reparations to their victims.
Among those indoctrinated in the judaic/talmudic education, many constitute a mortal danger to the western civilization and Humanity at large. Jews have not been able to create their own civilization due to grave defects in their education such as the indoctrination in lunatic supremacism and psychotic fear & hatred of “others.” This supremacist lunacy and genocidal judaic/talmudic indoctrination must be banned in all countries/societies where jews moved into.
As a start, a healthy society should follow the wise Chinese policies towards jews:
Please, China, keep your eye on the talmudists and Chabad-Lubavitch subversives, in case they infesting Beijing and Shanghai.
Chinese IQ = 104
Israel IQ = 92 (behind the 39 smarter and more moral nations)
It is the lunatic belief in jewish supremacism and hatred of “others” that make jews stupid.
I had my Fox News and Newsmax-watching 99-year old decorated WWII-veteran father listed to Sachs two-hour interview with Tucker Carlson.
He was blown away and asked me how come we never hear this stuff Sachs so simply and beautifully explains.
If Sachs wishes to be taken seriously he cannot continue to ignore
the complicity of the Jews in causing war and conflict. As a Jew,
he is in a precarious position and has already burned a few
bridges with Tribe, but he must name the Jews to
complete the mission.
I thought most of the dumb Jews were the American Hasbara trolls on TUR.
The Ashkenazi Jews supposedly have an average IQ of about 110 so is the
Israeli IQ reduced because of the non-European Jews and some Israeli Arabs
getting in the mix?
Since many Ashkenazi Jews have IQs above 140 we might guess that a
substantial number of the lower group are in the 70 to 80 range,
or that the 92 average score is invalid.
Not just Poland, but several former communist countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union did well or they did OK after the collapse of Soviet communism, while Russia and Ukraine quickly turned into shithole nations.
Here is my theory. This is a theory of moral and cultural foundations.
Those countries that have something ideologically solid to fall back after the collapse of the communist ethics had a better chance to recover and rebuild. All those Muslim former Soviet republics had Islam with its strong moral framework. Poland and other eastern European nations had two things, catholicism and Western Europe. Belarus continued having a communist ethos and a strong man.
But countries such as Russia and Ukraine had nothing to fall back to, morally and ideologically, so they turned into ‘anything goes’ amoral and deeply corrupt nations.
Yet Russia was blessed by the appearance and raise of an outstanding stateman that rebuilt Christian and patriotic foundations for the renaissance of his nation.
Ukraine had nothing. No hero appeared to save the day. So today, Ukraine still is a shithole of corruption, betrayal of race and family, Jewish oligarchs running rampant, gross debauchment of morals, and general degradation of institutions and populace.
For contributors to and readers of this thread, the most useful information in gold-framed comment no. 127 is that it reveals what the Framing Authorities deem goodthink.
Neocons?
Who are those guys?..lol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2003/12/23/for-vietnam-vet-anthony-zinni-another-war-on-shaky-territory/1fc22c89-4f9f-4a35-b759-4fdda8158e92/
Dirty fucking Jews.
The same cunts who infested Bush Sr and Dubya and Obama and Biden Admin.
USING American Blood and Treasure to advance their sick, evil perverted Globalist agenda. The war in Ukraine is their latest adventure.
You sacrifice and get poor. They sit on their fat asses and get richer.
If the UN was effective, it would have prevented America from invading and destroying numerous countries and massacring millions: https://www.worldfuturefund.org/Reports/Imperialism/usmurder.html
The more likely explanation for the lack of a direct hot war between the great powers is MAD. But even then, in only a few generations we’ve already come close to nuclear annihilation multiple times. The possibility will increase dramatically once nuclear weapons or a similarly destructive tech becomes available to more and more entities. So it’s extremely unlikely we will escape that fate.
I think it was basically the only idea in town at the time so to speak. The Soviet system wasn’t as effective at providing wealth and prosperity as the western market driven economies. And with the USSR dissolving into independent nations the current system likely needed huge overhaul to continue to work, and they had financial crisis. The obvious solution was ‘market economy’ with privatization, not only of huge enterprises but way down the line to shops and farms.
Neocons: President Bush Jr. said that when asked, his father said they were Jews or their reps.
Our civilization offers no alternative. Any deviation from mainstream (the loudest) capitalism is ridiculed. Dogma such as GHG intensity of production and green growth have become normal.
Only Iceland jailed leading bankers after 2008. US only jailed an insignificant Indian (by race).
In an earlier comment (No. 109) in this thread I linked to a video which briefly explained the key difference between the geopolitical analyses of Mearsheimer and Sachs.
In recent days the two men both appeared on the same panel – and went head to head debating whether Mearsheimer’s great power “realism” is truly rational in the nuclear era.
In Sachs’ opinion it is not. No geopolitical theory that treats global doom as inevitable is worth espousing. We have to do better..
You call it a “theory of moral and cultural foundations,” but the arguments presented are that it’s the ruling elites that matter, not moral and cultural foundations.
All those Muslim former Soviet republics with Islam and its strong moral framework ended up with vastly different outcomes. Some are shitholes, some are doing fine.
Belarus had a strongman = ruling elites matter, not moral foundations.
No hero appeared in Ukraine = ruling elites matter, not moral foundations.
Russia got an outstanding stateman = ruling elites matter, not moral foundations. In the 1990s Russia had that alcoholic Yeltsin and a bunch of Jew oligarchs in power, no wonder it turned into a shithole
Mearsheimer views power as a product of population and wealth. He says that the 3 top powers are USA, China, and Russia. He says it’s a colossal blunder to drive Russia into China’s camp.
1. If you look at his factors of power, it’s not clear at all that Russia is #3. India easily surpasses it and if we discount it cause of it’s poor infrastructure, lower per capita wealth, and inferior technology, then we we would have to boost both Japan and Germany ad we’d expect them to surpass Russia in terms of power. So his factors are not right. Population size is probably no longer that important. Probably, he gives Russia 3rd place just cause it has nuclear weapons and long range ballistic missiles.
2. Still, 3 of the 4 secondary powers are in America’s camp so driving Russia into China’s hands doesn’t seem like a big deal.
Country | Population | GDP (PPP)
India: 1.4 billion | $12.6 trillion
Japan: 125 million | $6.1 trillion
Russia: 143 million | $4.7 trillion
Germany: 83 million | $5.5 trillion
The blessing of capitalism is the incentive to work hard, invent, innovate and produce an abundance of goods and services.
The curse of predatory capitalism is that it enables the capitalist to use surplus production to enslave the workers who produced the surplus profit.
The CCP has preserved the incentive factor, while preventing the capitalists from allocating all of the worker-produced surplus to themselves, thereby giving workers sufficient income to purchase the goods they produce.
The capitalists may still become wealthy, but they are not involved in policy decisions or governance. Future success will depend on stopping the wealthy from corrupting the government, as they have in the U.S. and almost everywhere else. Money does have an uncanny, if not magical way of finding its way into the pockets of politicians.
Capitalism has NOTHING to do with human labour, initiative, creativity etc. Capitalism is parasitism, which steals value from human efforts, accumulates it and gives it super-human existence and power, in the hands of tiny, blood-sucking, cabals. ‘Predatory capitalism’ is a tautology.
I certainly agree with much of what you say here regarding China. In ancient China ‘merchants’ were not allowed anywhere near power, and the CPC know their history.
I saw an interesting presentation where an energy researcher put thermodynamic collapse of the human system at c.2030. The concept of ‘wasted heat’ energy as entropy was fascinating. We are swimming in an ocean of entropic heat created by our always thermodynamically inefficient machines since the Industrial Revolution began. Those zettajoules just keep accumulating. We are SO VERY fucked it is hilarious-frightening no longer does it justice.
‘Market’ power is everywhere and always money power. A ‘market’ economy is a plutocratic oligarchy, inescapably, as we see today. And remember when ‘markets’ were perfect and inerrant? Ahhhh, the 1980s, humanity’s swansong. Today, ‘market failure’ is ubiquitous and unapologetic. You can’t make a Beluga omelet without smashing a few eggs, now can you.
You underestimate the power of innovation and greed working together in a symbiotic
partnership to achieve remarkable advances and benefits to all. Not all great minds
were financially rewarded, with Oliver Heaviside (coaxial cable) being one example,
but the pursuit of wealth did motivate many others.
The danger to society comes when capitalists use their wealth to corrupt the political
process, effectively disenfranchising the other classes. On this we agree.
You gotta poison that kills most insects, but it’s very profitable? No worries-that’s capitalism. You gotta product that has killed over a billion, and still does tens of millions every year, tobacco, but it’s worth billions a year? No worries-that’s ‘business’. You gotta substance, asbestos, that was known to be DEADLY from the time of the Romans, but it’s worth millions? No worries-that’s capitalism.
Capitalism is cancer, innately omnicidal and destructive, designed to reward the worst monsters while turning every living thing into the dead stuff of MONEY. Mankind’s Nemesis.
Zionists chose hegemony over peace the day they made a Balfour Declaration deal with the British.
In exchange for ceding Palestine to Jewish Zionists, the British demanded that Zionists lobby inside the US to convince the US to join the war fighting during WW1 on the British side.
The Zionists agreed to the deal, and the US was subsequently drawn into WW1 when the RMS Lusitania was sunk by a German U-boat.
The German U-boat sank the Lusitania because it was loaded with live war munitions given to the UK secretly by the Woodrow Wilson administration.
Woodrow Wilson pledged US neutrality during WW1, and he lied about it.
Wilson was a democrat, and the US Democrat Party is a wholly owned subsidiary of Jewish Cabal Inc.
“In 1993, divers led by National Geographic’s Bob Ballard explored the wreck of the Lusitania, situated eight miles off the coast of Ireland. On board, the divers found approximately four million U.S.-made Remington .303 bullets. The discovery supports the German’s long-held belief that the Lusitania was being used to transport war materials.”
https://www.thoughtco.com/sinking-of-the-lusitania-1778317
I too had assumed that Sachs was part of the Harvard brain trust that developed the plan to strip Russia of its national assets leaving it impoverished. Thank you Jeffrey for clearing that up as I believe you are the new Noam Chomsky