Why the U.S.-Iran War Has No Offramp w/ Jeffrey Sachs

Why the U.S.-Iran War Has No Offramp w/ Jeffrey Sachs
Follow Jeffrey Sachs: The Center for Sustainable Development (CSD), https://csd.columbia.edu/
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0:00 Intro — Jeffrey Sachs joins to discuss Iran & the US naval blockade
2:07 Sachs: "We are living in Donald Trump's delusions"
3:39 Structural roots — US vs Iran since the 1979 revolution
4:13 1953 CIA coup, the Shah's police state & Iran's break from US hegemony
5:23 US regime change operations since 1979 — sanctions, arms, assassinations
6:01 Israel & Netanyahu's 40-year obsession with overthrowing Iran
7:22 Why the recent war makes no sense — no path to success
9:06 Trump's personality — simpleton, psychopath, dark tetrad analysis
10:45 Collapse of US governance — no inter-agency process, no oversight
13:38 The decision to kill the supreme leader — CIA & Joint Chiefs objected
16:34 Trump's approval collapse & desperate search for an offramp
17:38 Trump psychologically cannot accept anything less than total victory
21:28 Frontotemporal dementia concerns — deteriorating mental state
25:55 Deinstitutionalization of America — no Congress, no NSC, no checks
29:25 Alexander: Lavrov warns this looks like the start of World War III
31:13 Are we heading toward nuclear war? Real risk assessment
33:27 No functioning nuclear arms agreements — recklessness across the board
34:55 Netanyahu & Trump — two unstable leaders driving the same war
38:09 What can stop this? Internal checks & external pressure from Putin, Xi, Modi
42:08 The offramp has always existed — Iran never wanted nuclear weapons
43:06 Sachs: Iranian officials have been begging to negotiate for 15 years
45:31 Iran is a sophisticated, educated society — not the caricature Trump projects
46:16 US & Israel systematically destroying Iranian & Gazan universities

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