President Joe Biden gave Ukraine the green light to use U.S.-provided missiles to strike deep inside Russia, and now he’s nowhere to be found to explain to the American people what changed his mind from just weeks ago, Jeffery Sachs, the Columbia University professor, told “Judging Freedom.”
Sachs called the decision “shockingly irresponsible” on its merit because the administration opted against their use just a few weeks ago. But he said it was “especially shocking” for a “lame-duck, not even a lame-duck…a dead-in-the-water administration that has been repudiated to be putting the world at risk in this way.”
He continued, “It’s disgusting.”
“It also shows the profound flaws of our political system: one person, ostensibly — we don’t even know whether it’s him anymore [making the decisions] because we don’t hear from him…he may not be even responsible for this. But in the name of one person — without public debate — on an existential issue” and on a decision that the Pentagon reportedly rejected just a few weeks ago because of the risks, one person could bring the world to the precipice of WWIII, he said.
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