Okay, we are live joined by Alexander Merkirce and the one and only Professor Jeffrey Sachs.

Great to be with you.

How are you?

Great to have you with us again.

And let's just jump right into the many topics that we can discuss.

A lot going on in the world.

A big hello and shout out to everyone that is watching us on Rockvin Odyssey,

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and thank you to all our amazing moderators.

Alexander, Professor Sachs, what in the world should we discuss?

We could discuss lots of things, but I think there's one unifying thing that brings everything

together, and that is that the great powers are not talking to each other.

There is no effective diplomacy going on, and the reason for that is because the most important

and powerful great power of all, which is still the United States, won't engage in it.

We had news of a call just the other day, from Biden to Xi Jinping. I've read

the readouts, both the American and the Chinese. It seems it was just a restatement of old

positions, no real movement at all. And of course, on Ukraine, all the talk now is not of diplomacy.

It is of another hundred billion dollars that this time NATO is going to cook together.

Now, Professor Sachs has done an absolutely brilliant article on the need to rediscover diplomacy,

the art of diplomacy at a time when the world's situation is becoming

more dangerous by the day, with wars in the Middle East, wars in Europe, in Ukraine, and with

the Chinese Xi Jinping going out of his way to use the words red line when talking to Biden about

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