Jeffrey Sachs speaking to George Galloway about Europe, Israel, the assassination of Kennedy (Sachs blames the CIA), etc

'Europe is of course falling to pieces in the process. It can't tell whether it's going to be invaded by the east or the west. It's guessed wrong. Russia is not its threat. The threat is the United States, which is the more imminent invasion that's likely. They lost all sense of diplomacy. They lost all sense of economics. If it wasn't enough that they had put sanctions on Russia, which didn't matter so much for Russia but crushed the industry of Germany and Europe, well they had to put the cherry on top of that a couple of days ago by declaring that permanently they would stop any imports of energy from Russia and only buy LNG at six times the cost from the United States. So these people don't even think for a moment about their own citizens or their own voters. And it's not surprising that Starmer has 11% approval ratings. I don't know who's lower. Macron is maybe in single digits by now. He's absolutely detested by the population. Mertz is in a free fall. They all are not only pathetic from the point of view of Europe's interests, but they're not even decent politicians from the point of view of keeping any public support at all.'

'But the background to this war that is about to take place is itself a 30-year effort by Israel to create this war. Israel's created just about every other war in the region. It's created the wars in Lebanon, in Syria, in Iraq, in Yemen, Sudan because Mossad was very active in breaking apart Sudan, in Somalia, in Libya.'

The conversation is here.

I was very surprised to hear him say John F. Kennedy was almost certainly killed by the CIA.

I had always completely dismissed this conspiracy theory - at least I did until I learnt recently that Robert Kennedy, John Kennedy's brother and the US Attorney- General at the time of the murder, was sure that the CIA did it.