US stuck in 20th-century foreign policy with wars & bases across globe – leading economist
RT.com
21 Jun, 2017
Instead of building a global economy and solving problems like climate change in order to save the planet, the US is waging wars and maintaining military bases across the world, pursuing Cold War policies, Jeffrey Sachs says.
The world missed the opportunity to build a truly united and global economy, as the United States kept its Cold War mentality after the collapse of the Soviet Union and continued antagonizing Russia, Jeffrey Sachs, renowned American economist and director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University, told RT in an exclusive interview.
“Both the West and the Soviet Union – Russia made bad mistakes already a quarter of a century ago in not finding a way towards a more constructive integration of the economies,” Sachs said, adding that moving NATO borders “few hundred miles to the east” violated “Gorbachev’s correct idea… that we should aim to have a unified economy that stretches from the North Sea and the Atlantic all the way to the Pacific, to Vladivostok.”
The US and NATO, pushing towards Russian borders have eventually created the current “mess” in the world we’re living in Sachs believes.
“And we started making divisions again. Well, maybe one could understand Eastern Europe being afraid of the Russian Bear, but every time that NATO was pushed closer to the Russian border – Montenegro, most recently, but probably most frighteningly, when the US pushed for Ukraine’s candidacy for membership in NATO – to my mind it was the final straw that led to the break and we’ve been on the downward spiral since then. It is dangerous for the world.”
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