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🗓️ 28 November 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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0:00.0 | Okay, we are live with Alexander McCurris and the one and only Professor Jeffrey Sachs. |
0:09.9 | Guys, we have 30 minutes with the great Professor Sachs. |
0:14.4 | So, Alexander, let's get to it. |
0:16.5 | We have a lot to discuss today. |
0:18.5 | We have a lot to discuss and we've got 30 minutes. |
0:21.6 | So let's go straight in. |
0:22.6 | Professor Sacks, you did an exceptional presentation to the UN Security Council. |
0:27.6 | You discussed the fact that we are in a world at war, in many places. |
0:32.6 | You itemized four wars. |
0:34.6 | You gave a thread that unites all of these wars. That thread, it seemed to me, |
0:41.6 | was Western, ultimately American policy and a propensity to seek military solutions and |
0:49.5 | forcible solutions rather than diplomatic ones. Is that a fair view? Well, it was a happy occasion for me to be |
1:02.0 | able to meet directly with the 15 members of the UN Security Council and lay out a proposition, |
1:09.9 | which was a pretty basic one, which is that if the Security Council |
1:15.0 | uses the powers that it has under the UN Charter, Article 7, and the powers to enforce |
1:24.6 | UN Security Council resolutions, even the ones that have been adopted to date, |
1:30.4 | it can end the raging wars around the world. |
1:34.3 | I talked about four. I talked about, of course, the war in Ukraine. I talked, of course, about |
1:40.1 | the war in Gaza. I talked about the war in Syria. And I talked about the war in Gaza, I talked about the war in Syria, |
1:44.6 | and I talked about the war in Libya. |
1:47.5 | And yes, at the core of all of these |
1:50.6 | has been US meddling in contradiction, |
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