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      economists like richard wolfe or micheal hudson or jeffrey sachs and leftist political science student and influencer like sugarskullangelic give me hope

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        Not Jeffrey Sachs. This guy was involved in Russia’s shock therapy after Yeltsin took over.

        But read about Anwar Shaikh as well.

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          Yeah, however sincere you think his newfound anti-imperialist geopolitical “enlightenment” is, in terms of his economic views Sachs is still an unrepentant and unreformed liberal. He praises Poland’s systematic destruction of socialism and reveres Gorbachev as his hero.

          And he wasn’t just involved in Russia in the Yeltsin era, he was already there and meddling in the last years of the Soviet Union.

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          Not Jeffrey Sachs. This guy was involved in Russia’s shock therapy after Yeltsin took over.

          he predates yeltsin, but this is otherwise true – he’s useful because he’s a well known pro-us-empire voice that’s fallen out of favor w them and speaks the truth about ukraine.

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            I think there are ulterior motives for it, one of them is restoring relations with Russia and isolating China. He is not the only pro-empire voice who seeks this objective.