• eldavi@lemmy.ml
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    8 days ago

    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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      8 days ago

      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.