4/4/23 Jeffery Sachs on What Led to War in Ukraine

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Scott Horton

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4.8 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University joins the show to discuss the war in Ukraine. First, Scott asks him about his extensive experience telling the truth about American foreign policy on national television. They then take a look back at the important developments that led to this war over Ukraine. They discuss the talks after the fall of the USSR, the Russian interest in the port at Sevastopol, the true beginning of the current war in 2014 and more. Discussed on the show: Naftali Bennett interview “NATO Expansion: What Gorbachev Heard” (National Security Archive) Jeffrey David Sachs is an American economist, academic, public policy analyst, and former director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University, where he is currently a Professor. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott. Get Scott’s interviews before anyone else! Subscribe to the Substack. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, y'all welcome to the Scott Horton's show.
0:02.0	I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute.
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0:14.8	editorial director of anti-war.com.
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0:50.0	. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . at Columbia University. Welcome to the show, how you doing, sir?
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0:57.2	So you first came to my attention during the days,
1:01.8	about 10 years ago, I guess guess during the days of Obama's
1:04.6	dirty war in Syria and you were the only guy that they'd let on TV who knew
1:10.2	anything about it to tell the truth about it, right?
1:12.8	Anyone else who had a contrary point of view didn't have the status, but for whatever reasons,
1:17.8	the Big New Brzinsky's daughter would let you come on her show and tell the truth about
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