trovo anch'io estremamente interessante il discorso di Sachs - per quel che ne posso capire, le cose che dice erano già note a chiunque avesse seguito con un po' di attenzione il corso della geopolitica degli ultimi decenni. ma la sintesi che ne fa è molto illuminante
Il giorno ven 28 feb 2025 alle ore 14:53 380° via nexa < nexa@server-nexa.polito.it> ha scritto: > Buongiorno, > > scusate per l'OT ma quanto raccontato (sotto) ha avuto un impatto > determinante (anche) sul _perché_ e percome la tecnologia - incluso > ovviamente "il digitale" - è stata progettata, sviluppata e utilizzata > negli ultimi 30 anni. > > Lo scorso 19 Febbraio Jeffrey Sachs [1] ha tenuto un discorso a mio > avviso storico al parlamento europeo, nel quale riassume in modo > estremamente efficiente ed efficace cosa è davvero successo dal 1990 > fino al 20 Gennaio 2025. Sotto trovate il link e le cose che a mio > avviso sono le più significative. > > Per come lo leggo io, sostanzialmente il suo discorso illustra la > (nota?) strategia adottata dagli states per dominare unilateralmente la > Terra dopo lo scioglimento del Patto di Varsavia, strategia che è la > stessa adottata dalla classe dominante negli ultimi 5000 anni, perché è > il suo karma: siccome le risorse sono scarse per sopravvivere dobbiamo > (cioè _dovete_) combattere per il Lebensraum (si veda l'ultimo paragrafo > della trascrizione sotto). > > ...ora però è probabile che sia iniziato il Karmageddon! :-D > > «Welcome to the chaos of the times > If you go left and I go right > Pray we make it out alive > This is Karmageddon» > (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y29kmnhjtc8) > > «Professor Jeffrey Sachs: Speech at European Parliament on February 19, > 2025» > > https://www.other-news.info/edited-transcript-professor-jeffrey-sachs-the-geopolitics-of-peace/ > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > > Edited transcript of Professor Jeffrey Sachs’ speech in the European > Parliament at an event titled “The Geopolitics of Peace”, hosted by > former UN Assistant Secretary General and current BSW MEP Michael von > der Schulenburg, on February 19, 2025. The transcript has been edited > for clarity and annotated in footnotes and hyperlinks. The unedited > transcript and audio version is here [2] > > [...] The United States came to the view, especially during 1990-91, and > then with the end of the Soviet Union, that the US now runs the world, > and that the US does not have to heed anybody’s views, red-lines, > concerns, security viewpoints, international obligations, or any UN > framework. I’m sorry to put it so plainly, but I do want you to > understand. > > [...] What happened after 1991, and to bring us to 2008, is that the > United States decided that unipolarity meant that NATO would enlarge > somewhere from Brussels to Vladivostok, step by step. > > [...] Neutrality is perhaps the dirtiest word according to the US > mindset. If you’re an enemy, we know you’re an enemy. If you are > neutral, you are a subversive, because you’re really against us, but > just not telling us. You’re only pretending to be neutral. > > [...] So, the decision was taken by Clinton in 1994 to expand NATO all > the way to Ukraine. This is a long-term US project. This is not due to > one administration or another. This is a US government project that > started more than 30 years ago. > > [...] Because one thing about America is we always “know” what our > counterparts are going to do, and we always get it wrong! And one reason > we always get it wrong is that in the non-cooperative game theory that > the American strategists play, you don’t actually talk to the other > side. > > [...] A thirty-year project. Ukraine and Georgia were the keys to the > project. Why? Because America learned everything it knows from the > British. We are the wannabe British Empire. > > [...] The American political system is a system of image. It’s a system > of media manipulation every day. It is a PR system. You could have a > president that basically doesn’t function and have that person in power > for two years and run for reelection. The one thing is he had to stand > on a stage for 90 minutes by himself, and that was the end of it. > > [...] Bombing Belgrade 78 straight days in 1999 was part of this > project. Splitting apart that country when borders are “sacrosanct,” > aren’t they? Except for Kosovo, that is. Borders are sacrosanct except > when America changes them. Breaking apart Sudan was another related US > project. Consider the South Sudan rebellion. Did that just happen > because South Sudanese rebelled? Or shall I give you the CIA playbook? > > Let us please understand as grown-ups what this is about. Military > campaigns are costly. They require equipment, training, base camps, > intelligence, finance. That support comes from big powers. It doesn’t > come from local insurrections. South Sudan did not defeat Sudan in a > tribal battle. > > [...] NATO enlargement, as you know, started in 1999 with Hungary, > Poland, and the Czech Republic. Russia was extremely unhappy about it > > [...] So, these are long-term US projects. It’s wrong to ask, “Is it > Clinton? Is it Bush? Is it Obama?” That’s the boring way to look at > American politics, as a day-to-day or year-to-year game. Yet that’s not > what American politics is. > > After 1999, the next round of NATO enlargement came in 2004 with seven > more countries: the three Baltic states, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia, > and Slovakia. At this point, Russia was pretty upset. > > [...] The idea that Putin is reconstructing the Russian empire is > childish propaganda. > > [...] There have been around one hundred regime-change operations by the > US since 1947, many in your countries [speaking to the MEPs] and many > all over the world.(*16) That’s what the CIA does for a living. Please > know it. It’s a very unusual kind of foreign policy. In the American > Government, if you don’t like the other side, you don’t negotiate with > them, you try to overthrow them, preferably, covertly. If it doesn’t > work covertly, you do it overtly. You always say it’s not our > fault. They’re the aggressor. They’re the other side. > > They’re “Hitler.” That comes up every two or three years. Whether it’s > Saddam Hussein, whether it’s Assad, whether it’s Putin, that’s very > convenient. That’s the only foreign policy explanation the American > people are ever given. [...] The mass media repeats it entirely because > it’s completely suborned by the US government. > > [...] [The Maidan Revolution] Ladies and gentlemen, please, how did all > those Ukrainian media outlets suddenly appear at the time of the Maidan? > Where did all this organization come from? Where did all these buses > come from? Where did all those people come from? Are you kidding? This > is an organized effort. And it’s not a secret, except perhaps to > citizens of Europe and the United States. Everyone else understands it > quite clearly. > > [...] if we put our minds, our resources and our energies towards it, we > can transform the world energy system for climate safety. We can protect > biodiversity. We can ensure every child gets a quality education. We can > do so many wonderful things right now. What do we need for success? In > my view, most importantly, we need peace. And my basic point is there > are no deep reasons for conflict anywhere because every conflict I study > is just a mistake. We are not struggling for Lebensraum. That idea, > which essentially came from Malthus and later became a Nazi idea, was > always wrong, a fundamental intellectual mistake. We have had race wars, > national wars of survival, out of the fear that we don’t have enough for > everybody on this planet, so that we are in a struggle for survival. As > an economist, I can tell you, we have plenty on the planet for > everybody’s sustainable development. Plenty. > > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > [1] che per i distratti è uno che a _tutti_ i più potenti personaggi > geopolicici gli da del tu _e_ che è stato personalmente presente a quasi > tutti gli incontri che contano dal 1990 a oggi > > [2] > https://singjupost.com/transcript-jeffrey-sachs-on-the-geopolitics-of-peace-in-the-european-parliament/ > > > > -- > 380° (lost in /traslation/) > > «Welcome to the chaos of the times > If you go left and I go right > Pray we make it out alive > This is Karmageddon» >
