The End of American Exceptionalism
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- “We don’t look after each other at all,” says Jeffrey Sachs on America today
Jeffrey Sachs sits down with Rob Johnson to discuss his new book, A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism (Columbia University Press, 2018).
A very rare creature indeed, a sane, humble and reasonable American.
Yes, as everyone swallowed the sweet propoganda. Only he, the rare ones, who had not. Though they were untrue they nevertheless were intended to benefit white Americans. Thus they follow the graph - of the duke of York: when they were up, they were up, and when they were down, they all tumbled down.
Read Chomsky....I have known this for years.
A rare gem
Maybe they're not actually that rare. It's just that the sane, reasonable and humble Americans aren't allowed anywhere near a news camera, for fear that they might make the country more sane, humble and reasonable, which is something that cannot be tolerated.
@@andrewbaumann2661 indeed!
I believe that any system that is truly "exceptional" does not need to create endless war in order to prove it.
You call it "creating endless war" but it's more like "constantly having to deter and defend" it's large network of allies and friendly like minded nations around the world from external threats from destabilizers and adversary powers such as Russia China Iran Iraq (formally) and stateless actors such as alqaeda Taliban and ISIS. The free democratic free market world basically enjoys augmented safety and security under the US defense umbrella. Which the US provides due to the strategic, economic and diplomatic benefits to itself.
@@rms1034
You sound EXACTLY like a pro-Military/Industrial Complex stooge, don't you??
@@rms1034
You drank the cool-ade.
@@rms1034 its easily to lecture nonsense when your country is not bombed.
@@punyashloka4946 the us only bombs countries that are adversaries or are breeding grounds for terrorists or Islamic extremism. Meanwhile the US alliance net work has enjoyed unprecedented peace and prosperity. No bombs. Perhaps countries should expel their authoritarians liberalized democratize and become free capitalist markets and above all come into alignment with the rest of the Free world the international community that supports the US world order and thus enjoy the safety and security under her umbrella. Then the bombs might stop. Join the club. 🇺🇸 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇦🇺🇫🇷🇩🇪🇪🇺🇯🇵🇹🇼🇰🇷🇵🇭🇮🇱
The root of the problem starts with the thinking no one else matters.
" we don't look after each other" says Jeffery Sachs and that is where the problem begins and ends . Truly spoken.
Exactly, it's the narcissist century.
Kremlin believes ukraine doesnt matter they have no right to self determination just a chess piece a minor pawn why did all these nations sign on to nato in the first place poland the baltic states no answer is needed
The real problem is the american political system. This country wastes so many money in Elections and a weak government is elected whose policy couldn't last for 4 years. A country without a long-term and achievable goal will lose their future.
Because your governmeny is busy making money for himself and the people around him. Imagine the people who really hate America is the America government 😢
The real problem is american as whole, all of them from education to political
They are proven mostly wrong and always say that was right until proven otherwise
Jeffery Sachs earned my respect the day he went on MSNBC and told the truth about the CIA starting the Syrian War.
The CIA carried out many covert operations to either start wars or coups to topple governments. Now they are trying to destabilize China by concocting lies about muslim genocide. Since when did our govt start caring about muslims?
Dont let uneducated people run the country. We no longer live in 7th century.
@@randomname931 Swapping out one authoritarian state for another. Like the CCP are any better than the US 😂
@@ksang2121 the extrovert vs the introvert?
@@willo7979 No... more like Western imperialist authoritarian state vs Eastern Imperialist authoritarian state.
This man is in so much pain. The pain of having a sense of belonging to a nation and then seeing that everyone else is going downhill faster and faster. I feel for you Sir. You are a good man.
Yours is the reply of an idiota!
@@tchirn that would be you.
Yes we agree CCP wish to attack every countries
This man (Geoffrey Sachs) is an ass-hole... In Yiddish - it's a schmuck.
@@zygmuntb Truth hurts sometimes. Sachs is true in his words & deeds.
This fantastic guy Mr Jeffrey Sachs should be the President of the US for world peace and prosperity.
This man is a true educated patriot that is warning his countrymen which i hope are listening. ✌
Alongside Robert Lustig, he is America's best hero. But the TV media will NOT let him get any traction.
@quietshadow lots of people in the us see this as utterly false
@@franciscoestrada5995
He is now in "exile"....
You brainwashed globalist sheep this guy hates
USA and is a Sorus puppet watch him at the Vatican. Look at at open borders Europe are they doing good
We can hear him but we aren't going to listen
Nowadays the only thing exceptional in America is the greed and stupidity. 😕
No worry. Link anything you are angry at to China. That will make USA heaven forever.
@@quantly or Russia, they never take responsibility for their violence and neglect of their own citizenry.
And ignorance.
The hell you talking about.
In terms of guns per capita and prisoner per capita merica still #1.
Being as a Chinese, have to say US is still super strong. Under no chance that a country can survive such a extravagance, I mean little screening, late mask equipment... Look at India, Taiwan and other US solid allies, what the chaos and hurt when they fall into the same situation like US months ago.
"We haven't solved a single problem in over 30 years"
"We don't take care of our people"
Amazing quotes.
why bother with people? cost money
well said !!!
No profit in helping people. Wars make money.
Why awkward as hell??
ameriKKKa has created myriad problems in half or a quarter of a millennia of genocide, slavery and war mongering. It has solved nothing.
ameriKKKa has been from its inception humanity's existential enemy. Humanity's chance of surviving it and its zionazi buddy israel and nazi buddy Ukraine are slim and none. The slim chance is the possible success commun(PEOPLE)ism offers over barbarikkk
Kkkapital(MONEY)ism. The zero chance is the probable success of satanic murderous racist character ameriKKKa has shown from its inception.
Professor Sachs - bless him for his honesty, wisdom, and concern for the entire world.
Youve ben taken in by a master conman.
100% agree.
诚实的教授
@@ZhaoYimin …外加糊塗：D
@@anwiycti1585 😥
He recently went on BBC in UK and told the truth to their annoyance
The current UK seem to have taken US arrogance and unrealism as model for their foreign policies.
UK is US mini me.
UK's fortune to a large extent is dependent on the hegemony of the USA, by simply hiding behind its 'son', the USA, UK is benefit a lot on the world stage.
@@The0ldg0at Current?? You already forgotten about their empire?
@@Mad_Intellect They sold off that empire to the US to pay for their WWII huge debt. There was a time between then and now they admitted the fact that they where no more a super power that could bend any foreign economy to their will. But the time they are a changing.
"We are a danger to ourselves" this quote says it all. Any true thinking American can see and agrees with this.
America is missing the most important point of all. And that is trust. They’re not good at trusting, and their foreign policy is reckless. They took the untrusting road. Their last hope is taking advantage of those who trusted them back. And I do acknowledge that is an unfortunate reality to conceive especially someone likes you who believes the idea of American exceptionalism. America will never forget the atrocities they’ve committed throughout history, because it’s before their eyes. So, they can’t fathom trusting others without putting them in the grave.😕 That’s it. There is nothing else wrong with America.
to the world more than yourselves
@@sekki327 To the extend, they freeze 7 billions dollar from Afghanistan. And made the Afghan people die in famine. Why? because the afghans people refused to play the rule of America. So, they have to suffer? America can not even settle and fix their own issues let alone fix the problem of the world. 😏
Nice one, Sekki. 🤙
Sachs was the architect of "Shock therapy" and he witnessed firsthand the pain and sufferings the Russians went through. am glad he learned from his mistakes.
watching this 2 years later, and every word is like prophecy....spot on
JFK was the last of his kind. It's been one sabotage after another by this nation since then.
Yes. China sends rovers to mars wow amazing
And yet people says Sachs is a Chinese shill. Just plain Stupidity.
Yup!
@@geofffesh2080 jfk dint do much
a wise professor, and very modest , who understand the world .
An eye opener of an interview! I am in awe of Prof Sach's clear eyed view of the realities that the world faces.
Professor Jeffrey Sachs, a man of integrity and humanitarian, speaks the conscience of human kind.
indeed
Professor Sachs is a man wrapped in the wrong way of looking at things when analyzing critical geopolitical issues when facing fascist ideology such as communism, which is even worse and more evil than Hitler and Mussolini's version. His so confident of his views and experiences having worked in and for Soviets Union during its last stage of days and in/for China under CCP, advocating treating these two mean-spirited nations as equals and cater to their own hegemony ambitions, while totally ignores the horrific history of human loss of Stalin's USSR and Mao's China. Mr. Sachs was fooled by China's external glittering achievements mentioning things like their 5G, extensive high speed rail system, and other 'high-tech' etc. Now we know China's 5G was almost totally dependent on the U.S.'s technology (chips), their high speed rail system was built on European and Japanese technology, including all the major components for the trains and control system, plus most were non-profitable routes so much so that the company running these railway has a 6-trillion dollar debt burden hanging overhead, their many high rise buildings, including one of the world's tallest in Tian-jian, went uncompleted or un-occupied. Today's Russia after being under the stewardship of Putin for 22 years, ended up starting a war on Ukraine, a country they claim to be of the great Slavic origin. I don't doubt that Prof. Sachs is a man of integrity and a humanitarian, but his approach to these two awful pariah nations is very wrong and dangerous. The world is always in danger due to aggressors, not human rights respecting nations such as the U.S., U.K. and France. German and Japan eventually leaned the lesson after harming the world greatly, we cannot placate the two last vestiges of evil-spirited communist or post-communism nations with persons like Putin and Xi in charge. We either stand up to them and their way of doing things, or we bow down and give up our conviction and way of life. Which is the right and preferable thing to do? I would choose to stand up to them and prepare ourselves and show our will to defend what is the right formula for humanity.
@@janneyovertheocean9558 lmao you are a special kind of retard. stop watching youtube.
@@turboelectro Sure I am a retard. I happen to be a retired M.D.
@@janneyovertheocean9558
You are brainwashed by your anti-CCP and anti-Russia medias
It is refreshing to listen someone with clear sense of direction as we go to the abyss.
LOL! Well said!
@NEO GEO Maybe. I think a better bet might be mass starvation...with a lot of "smaller mass deaths", along the way, in the form of shootings and such. It's never been a better time to be old.
In all seriousness--and from the bottom of my heart--I feel so sorry for the youth of today. It is absolutely awful, the position that they will be in, as they try to survive.
You would think that, as bad as things are really going to be, we would see this topic discussed at great lengths on every broadcasting station available. But, instead, it seems like we all have our heads in the sand.
Be well, NEO GEO.
So true. Truth being told we become free 💕
And it all comes from America
American citizens cant stop this until it's too late. The elites run this country. It's a democracy for the Top 1%. They are the ones getting the politicians a candidate. The average citizens just choose between the two elites' choices.
I can listen to this Man a million times a day without getting tired since he talks peace and practical ways to achieve it at all times.
May God Bless His Wisdom nor and forever more.
As a non American that is the way I see the USA.
I see it that way as well and I'm american. He is dead on on everything. Specially infrasture. Our country is crumbling
As an american this is how I see the USA.
Me too.
Agree America is hellhole
The world is changing... with or without USA.
I am a Dutchman living in Europe, who wants to greet these two outstanding Americans. Thank you, gentlemen!
I have read that the USA military will not enlist anyone with an IQ less than 87. Having read your comment I understand why. I dont know what language they are using but it is not English. The very word "Exceptionalism" is not Engliash. It is an Oximoron word that maintains oppersits at the same time. Its some king of village idiot giggle talk but it is not English.
+Paul van Dijck
The Netherlands would not exist without American Exceptionalism. Right now it would have been under a Nazi flag if it was not for the exceptional young men of America.
And after WW2 the US protected the Netherlands from the USSR that wanted to conquer Europe.
There is no getting around this fact. The man in that video is full of crap,
Do you know what the word Yankee comes from?
@@bighands69 ..Your Education is limited, this is why you can't understand, this man's sentiment, you're actually pill back the hands of time instead for being futuristic, placing people like you in leadership would be a great tragedy for mankind.
@@audleymclean2983
The US system of separation of power is exceptional. It has meant that people who have tried to attack the system have failed.
The US system means that no one group can obtain too much power. Republicans had all three branches of the government and really could do nothing that would enact large sweeping changes. Democrats are now in the same seat.
The American system protected Europe from the Nazis and USSR.
We need to start paying attention to all the alarm bells ringing because things are getting really out of hand, people are facing the highest cost of living in nearly four decades. My question is where should we put our investment money now to better prepare for the future and a liquidity crisis? I have $102,000 to grow
@Kaitlynwillett wow thats a huge milestone. Please how can i count with such skills? i want to grow my current savings of approximately $67,000 advantageously
@Jeanine willett I searched for Katherine using her fullname, found her official-internetpage and it was really impressive.
Excellent and realistic talk. We as a country are in deep trouble without realizing it. Stop destroying other countries in the name of liberation and solve our own problems.
Instead of talking about liberation you should learn how to play a Moog Liberator like the musicians in the band Devo it might take your mind off all of this
The US is in dire straits. It may spend more on its military than the next seven highest-spending nations combined, but that gigantic outlay has diverted resources from the civilian economy and it is the civilian economy, not the military industrial complex, that determines the long-term health of a nation. You only need speak to the Russians to confirm this. The Soviet Union collapsed because it participated in an arms race it could not afford. The US won this race because it had a stronger economic base to begin with, but that base has been crumbling for decades and will be surpassed by China by 2050.
@@davesmith826 don't wait for 2050. China will surpass the US in all aspects by 2030, latest by 2035.
@@davesmith826 When the US Congress can write $$$TRILLION checks with money they don't have,there is no such thing as diverting resources..Crap that has no business being funded gets Millions..Take it up with your Lefty Congressman
Syrian here, great respect for this man! Brings me hope that America can change one day.
Could a single swallow or a few ones bring back the lost spring?
A day will come ...to pay what they done to Syria and its people thousands of lives lost without a meaning of any sort.
I am trying so hard to hold back my tears. Because I don’t understand how a society can choose high level of ignorance and arrogance above everything else.
You feel sorry for your country?
I feel it in him too. He is trying very hard to convey the message. A MAN with knowledge, wisdom and a heart!
When I woke up this morning there were tears on my pillow
Welcome to 21 Century America. The US has been abdicating its progressive, democratic ideals for the past 40 years, but now it's become exponential.
ThiZ IZ pUtInZ PrOpAaaNDaAa 🤪
Thank you for your humble and wise voice. Quite rare in US right now.
JS is one of Earth's foremost scholars & always worth paying close attention to. Thank you.
@hello Peteranlan, how are you? where are you from? I'm here to make friends
I love this gentleman Sachs talks he is a man of integrity fair and straight to the point the world would be a paradise if we have more people of this nature
A true gentle man. I'd buy him a coffee and just listen to him for hours without interruption.
🤝 ☕️
A truly, respectable American talking objectively, constructively about the world economy and politically. So truthful without bias or prejudice. This is truly a great, free and open mind to the world. My deepest respect. A gem of the western.
Professor Sach speaks the truth even when it's uncomfortable for some to hear👏👏👏👏👏
I'm from the UK. I wish we had this man running our country.
You people are lucky to have Exceptional Boris running the UK!
@@vickyouko2490 Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.
I'm in America and I wish people like Sachs were running the country and the world. In the wake of COVID I've started asking, what good is having the world's best medical professionals and economists if we never listen to them? The fact is that the US is a civilization in decline, and we value greed and grift over anything else because the most successful people in the US politically and economically are thieves and liars. There are no ethical billionaires.
@@timothyrockwell2638 Well said.
He’s too smart for their country’s corporates to manipulate. Haven’t you realised that this is already the pattern for so many years?
My parents visited me in Manhattan in 2014. By the time they were leaving my dad said, instead of poking their noses into other countries/region’s business, Americans should mind their own business first, this country is poorly managed itself.
Exactly, if America was only self-centered and minded it's own business it wouldn't have opened it's markets to a flood of imports from Asia. It wouldn't have offshored and hollowed out it's industries to China and elsewhere, it wouldn't have helped Europe or Japan recover from the ashes of World War II. Your parents would most likely be unable to send you to America or even visit you in the first place coz Asia would still be impoverished and China won't have any diplomatic relations with the US coz the US wouldn't care about that country's "closed door policy".
Mr Jeffrey Sachs, a very humble and intelligent man. Like him a lot. From France
"economics should be a science for the common good."
I love everything this guy said.
It is just fancy words that appeals to Commies.
"the first rule of poltics is to ignore the first rule of economics" Pierre Pollievre 2022.
Yes sir ..We all can learn from Dr. Jeffrey Sachs especially our government
@Carrotstick296
Thanks for agreeing with me that communism is naive.
@Dennis Plum
So what positives could you be referring to would it be increased taxes, out of control inflation or how about not allowing ordinary hard working people to own a motor car.
The most kind and objective professor I have ever seen. Hopefully we can see more of your videos in the future.
Better to watch Invasion of the Body Snatchers the original from the 1950s than any more videos of this stuff
I just want to take a moment to thank the host who gave Prof.Sachs ample space to talk by not cutting him off and imposing ideas on him. Of course, Prof is brilliant and honest as always.
Brilliant presentation and very much to the dot. Two years later this podcast shows a clear reality of the dire state of the political, social, and economic fabric of the USA. Thank you for your insight and perspective on the deteriorating situation in this country.
What many exceptionalists fail to realise is that all empires have their day. Not only that, but the historical evidence suggests that empires typically fall into two main categories: the ones that last 100 years and those which last 300 years. Policymakers in the US certainly want the latter, but at the moment the American century looks like just that - a century.
This is a human who speaks from the heart . How can you not love a human like him . The unfortunate thing is that there are not too many like him anywhere . He is gold in a world of worthless metal .
Your description of this great human is so true
Actually, he is speaking from an educated point of view. All information chared by him is available online. Not being able to follow his arguments is only showing a very concerning lack of education
The dudes a hologram with a synthesized voice he doesn't even exist you've been tricked into worshiping a fantasy check out Aldo Nova on TH-cam and you'll see what I mean very insightful
@@ReverendSnedley He’s a communist traitor to America!
@@ReverendSnedley You're a hologram talking to yourself. A useless loop. You will be quarantined.
After listening to Mr. Sachs I was left speechless.
Mr. Sachs message is clear, concise, accurate and relevant.
Our World certainly needs more people like him helping us navigate the complexities of coexistence unlike the scoundrels we currently have in the ruling elite.
Thank you for sharing.
As a Chinese I have to say Americans should be happy that they have such a great patriotic man who really cares about their country.
1 year later and that comment makes you look like a f00l!
Ralph Phillips thousands ago our great thinker told us “国虽大 好战必亡”. Apparently Americans are too young to understand it
@@lbchen6160 Those Chinese characters are read as a large curse word. So yep. We must agree.
Yeah, not a good time be Asian in America thanks to the racist conman you supported.
@@drsmetal2747 Sorry, I dont understand. What did he do?
This interview is pure gold.
George Schieck pure crap
George Schieck now get the book 📖 it’s a gem 💎
Most people have mixed ancestry, across Eurasia.
100% ethnic purity wouldn’t fit the theory of evolution, basically - given the complex state of world history, amid current global developments.
The check-and-balance mechanism within the prevailing natural order is one that ensures an optimizing level of ethno-cultural diversity to preserve an overall balance of power.
Inbreeding will only lead to the irreversible retardation of the human species.
Inter-regional migration, maritime exploration, international trade and commerce, geopolitical wars and territorial expansion and conquests - inherently, form an integral part of our common history, facilitating the geographical spread of living organisms - forced to continually acclimatize through the evolutionary process - which can be understood as a 24/7 interaction that goes both ways.
The environment we find ourselves in triggers the evolutionary processes of cultural adaptation - including technological revolution - and genetic mutation - which in turn, shape our environment and climate.
Therefore, biodiversity is critical, in order to neutralize any existential threat - from both the supremacy of a single race, and the full-spectrum domination of a single nation.
The threshold of balance once exceeded - as in the case of a unitary world order, will no doubt, lead to fatal instability - with parallels to the epic collapse described in the biblical account of the great flood.
This, despite the absolute importance of achieving an overall stable political landscape globally, through peace-making.
To safely navigate this apparent universal conundrum, there is an urgency to harness the great wisdom within humankind’s philosophy of simplicity.
Ages before the chance rediscovery of the New World by the Europeans, America might have well been the center of gravity for a considerable period of time, ruled by tough adventurers, who had gradually overcome grueling journeys of unimaginable perils, out of Africa.
However, relative isolation from Eurasia soon doomed it to a fate of inevitable demise.
@@sayfami3927 bought the book the other day it arrived today for :D
@@lunafringe10 and what do you have for dinner?
We need leaders who think more like Jeffrey Sachs. What’s an exceptional human. I applaud this man.
What a decent man, Jeff Sachs
I think you meant 'exceptional'.
Every American must watch this video twice and wake up.
Impossible task, I guess cos the neocons political establishment will have to make them sleep soundly....zZz...all over again!!!
Saguaro Joe This is the extent to which I will critique America. Things happen faster when ppl come together. Obama understanding of American Exceptionalism is spot on. Where one loyalty lies is always important when you want to be prideful about a nation. Prioritizing Education, Healthcare, and Retirement is very responsible things to care about as a nation. If manipulation to serve specific interest wasn’t a motivation in the recent wars and SWIFT system seizure of assets, then you will understand white supremacy in a less confrontational way. The confrontational nature of the Beast ignores self reflection and progressive change. Some things are worth fighting for and other things are just pure suppression/oppression and manipulation because you think 💭 you deserve to get away with it. America has a lot to teach the world 🌍 and Han Chinese 🇨🇳 have become students of these tactics but to what extent and motivation will Asian supremacy affect the same ppl as White Supremacy has yet to be determined.
Thank you prof.jeffrey Sachs. This is the man who speaks from inner voice. May the Almighty God bless you and your family with these comprehensive lectures. American should learn from this great professor. My best regards. From northern Nigeria.
Just saw Jeff on another show, recently, can’t recall the show, but he is spot on.
Great guest, friend!!
@Annette Singleton Steele Thanks for the tip !!
Jeff is one of the few gentlemen Americans.
@quietshadow Give my regards to Vladimir
@@fairandbalanced65
Is that the only response you actually have. You do not understand the term American excpetionalism.
He is the gentleman who drove neo-colonisation of other countries through shock therapy, as any true gentleman American would. Is it any surprise then that the whole world hates USA?
Yes. Sachs is a globalist. People like him have created the system of Western Liberal Hegemony where western values are exported to the rest of the world thru military force and economic coercion.
I love you Jeffrey Saks, you are a man who stands for the truth and you are not afraid of telling the truth... thank you Sr.
OK, I admit that I was wrong in my understanding of the American society and people. Listening to Professor Jeffrey Sachs, I realised that there are still Americans who are smart, sensible, rational, objective. I don't know who the interviewer is but I was very impressed by him. He doesn't interrupt Professor Sachs unnecessarily but allows Professor Sachs to speak which is exactly what ought to the case. And when he does speak or ask a question, he is full of common sense. Very impressed by both the interviewer and Professor Sachs.
360 million people and you needed Sashs to make you realize that.... sad.
Good people in America still exist. Many like you need to be informed and given the chance to decide for themselves. How do we achieve that?
One of the saddest fact of the USA is that bright and wise people like Prof. Sachs would never be interested in running for president. Then you get people like Trump & Pence...
The established vested interests would never allow a person like Sachs to run for the presidency.
One step in the right direction would be to see Professor Sachs and many more like him making the rounds on cable tv. But they are being denigrated as the bad lefties while the ignorant righties like the Santorums of this world with tunnel vision are making the rounds indoctrinating the voters with their own stupidity. Mr. Sachs and others are actually taboo to come on tv, they would make the voters think based on real facts.
No,because of vested groups.You can hardly make a change
Jeffrey Sachs sucks!
His economic theory is not a solution, it is only a false illusion that is both not functional and unsuitable.
There's a reason Sachs is not running for president, he wouldn't make it.
Intelligent, truthful,honest people like Jeff Sachs should be in control. 💛💛💛💛
Mr. Sachs is exceptionally clear-thinking and well-spoken. EVERYBODY should be listening to him.
I've been questioning the term "American Exceptionalism" for some time. To me , it never signified anything positive about the nation, rather something negative...the bully claiming rights over other countries.
Plain racisst
That is actually what it is. Americans claim moral high ground but they go around sponsoring actual terrorists and authoritarian states. They criticise democracies bigger than theirs of not being "free" while being controlled by a few corporations in a single trenchcoat.
When India and Pakistan were fighting a war in the 90s, the US hedged the bets in favour of Pakistan. Pumped millions worth of military assets in a losing war, followed by trillions more to secure military bases in South Asia; only to have that investment being returned in the form of 9/11 masterminds living in safety in Pakistan for more than a decade.
This was a brilliant and very thoughtful discussion. I truly enjoy it!!
You are the only right minded person I have ever head from this land.
He is full of crap.
Rob Johnson articulates what has long been overdue. The presumption of superiority by one Nation over other Nations is a dangerous endemic human characteristic.
One of the few Americans who speaks with integrity and common sense
As an American I hate the idea of American exceptionalism. I hate how we’re bombing other nations. I hate our feeling of superiority, our over-manufacturing of militarism, and our illegal acts of imperialism. It’s a racist attitude that creates violence.
If you hate then why aren't you stopping it?
Ike warned us 70 years ago to be careful about military industrial complex dictating our foreign policy, and unfortunately that’s what’s happening now.
@@cashewnuttel9054 so because he has no power to stop it means he cannot criticize?
@@lemurforlife That's right.
@@cashewnuttel9054 Lol I could tell you’re one of those that don’t mind bending over and getting fucked. Instead you defend the fuckers and tell everybody else to “just take it”.
when something is right, it will usually sound right, feel right, look right. the insight this man gives us has all those qualities.
He is the right person worth to listen. He is a great intellectual. I would like such man to lead the nation.
15 minutes ago I didn't know who Jeffrey Sachs was... now I'm heading to a Sachs vortex, good thing I didn't even want to sleep.
Now you are ready for Chris Hedges.
Check out his book, " Common Wealth". This human is smart and he lays out a plan, although I do not believe you can accomplish it if we continue to worship the cAPITALAIST system. Just my opinion, and we all have one just like we all have assholes. I know what comes out of my sphincter and its not pleasant. I wish I was an American citizen and my shit looked beautiful and smelled like wild roses, not.
@@Jeeiff no one is ready for Chris Hedges.
@@tyn6211 th-cam.com/video/OGCFVc-5yTM/w-d-xo.html
Great interview! Not only can we not solve a single problem, we are creating multiple more problems on almost a weekly basis. Our leaders are focused only on enriching themselves & their friends by looting the country. Serving the people & solving problems is the LAST thing on their list.
Yes, they have had very short term thinking for a very long time.
This man is too honest and intelligent to rule any country, but we need more men like him. Highly recommend his book and Course. THE AGE OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Bless this man 🙏
Watching this in 2021, after America collapsed from a pandemic and continues to blame China for its woes.
My respect to Prof. Jeffrey D. Sachs. ...true honest and humble statements.
Very well said gentlemen. A strange thing happened to me whilst listening to you 2. I calmed down and went around doing my housework. I was very happy that your soothing voices of peace helped me forget the other voices of war…sometimes …at all times actually…we need that calmer heads prevail. A big Thankyou…& now I shall go throw the trash…haha..you got me paying attention to the house work again!@@!
I hope more people will read this book and realize the present situation of America and behave accordingly.
A very respectable and fair minded man that this world needs more.
This is how an educator explains things compare to politicians. Very clear and straight to the point.
I figured this out as s young man. My father was shot down over North Vietnam they returned his remains 20 years be later. My mother was killed by drunk drive . I have read all the history , philosophy, psychology , economics I could get my hands on for 50 years. These guys just are getting it right.
So true what he said. What a wise man indeed!! Thank you Jeffrey Sachs for your sincere sharing...
Jeffery was in Moscow when a group of Russian Generals decided that the USSR had to be dismantled and that Peace had to be the resultant priority. He reported this to Washington thinking it would be heralded progressively but was totally shocked when He realized Russia was regarded as the loser in the Cold War. and was looked upon as being in a weakened state to be exploited. Much of Jeffery Bach's anguish was derived from the disillusion of lies and deceit that would follow . The New RUSSIA wanted to be part of the EU but this was denied and little by little NATO moved Eastward picking up many of the small nations that had been once part of the dismantled USSR . There were verbal commitments Between Reagan and Leonard Brezhnez and others that have been completely disregarded by the USA and today we have the fore runner of what many feel already is WW111. In my opinion this is the dilemma that rides so heavy on the heart and Soul of Mr.Sachs. Thank you sir for your heart- felt expressions of grief.
Prof.Jeffrey Sachs is a honest , sincere & a man of integrity. America needs people like him to maneuvre their country towards sustainable development in a truly democratic manner where the voice of the common man of the country are heard & their problems are addressed & not waste time in the affairs of other countries. I would like him to stand for Presidency of USA & the people give him all the backing needed by supporting him whole heartedly. May God bless him abundantly & lead him to greater glory for his country 🙏🙏🙏
Right on Jeffery the exceptionalism is over and this country has to realize the system must change and our role on the a world
stage will change as it has to. All empires fall. As we will. This country lives in a fantasy land.
Very insightful interview. I like Mr. Jeffrey Sachs for his analysis of US policies in the US and beyond. 13:08 - His comment on absurdity of Wall Street Journal editorials is so damn true!
This video needs to be watched by more people. It can teach so many things to common people, even if you're not an American.
I am completely impressed with all statements which this smart and educated man stated here in this unique conversation with a man who was asking very difficult questions. Bravo. Bravo Bravo!
this author is one of the very few wise, sober, rational, truly intellectual mind in united states.
He is just full of crap. People like him existed when the Nazi's came to power. People made excuses for what the Nazi's were doing. Just people today do with the Communist government that they bang on about being a world leader.
Just keep in mind that Sachs has evolved his viewpoint greatly over the past 30+ years... he was once an eager neo-liberal, but seeing the destruction wreaked by policies he advised under the auspices of the IMF & WB during the post-Soviet era (the phrase "shock therapy" was coined to characterize his approach, similar to Friedman & the Chicago Boys who advised Pinochet & Deng), in Latin America & Africa eventually has had a huge impact on him.
He describes some of this transformation in his books, which are excellent.
At one time, I couldn't stand the man; it was surprising & inspiring to see him change in such a profound way.
But he still hasn't gone far enough for me.
Thank you, Mr. Sachs! Your book answers many questions about that Manifest Destiny, Monroe Doctrine and the old "Exceptionalism". Humans have often seen themselves "better" than the people over the hill, I am glad you targeted the most important need of "humility" to restrain the "hubris" that Great Power status generates. Everybody should know that no human enterprise or empire should claim fantastic or beautiful or wonderful dominance over anybody. "you're only takin' orrrders, that's how every empire falls" - John Prine
Brilliant guy with in depth analysis of what problems America is now facing. He is someone that speaks from his heart.
Jeff has so much qualities. Such a wonderful interview and thanks for sharing.
What this gentleman said 3 years ago in this video was spot on.
Easily comprehensible, excellent talk!! Jeffrey Sachs has well-informed, passionately concerned perceptions and analyses that show us/American citizens the direction of our society and suggest what/how must urgently be changed. So many truths in his comparing Western Europe/Scandinavian societies over our American society in terms of quality of life or the "common/public good.".
Yeah even when you adjust for hours worked and cost of living, Americans have a much better life than most Scandinavians. I lived in Sweden and it felt like a developing country.
I respect this guy. He speak the truth about what are the problems facing America as a nation.
Corrupt system, corrupt results. Never was exceptional, except perhaps exceptional hubris.
Our " Founding father " gonna fix it.
U got that right. TRUTH is not so common among Americans. SAD BUT TRUE. BLESS UP
Who is like the beast and who can make war with him?
F, Radjab. thank you very much Prof. J. Sachs, it was really very good and beautiful too!
America forgot one important thing, you need to invest into your people, people make the country.
Economy, Army, Science, everything is the result of people.
After ww2 soldiers had the right for tax funded higher education, but that generation cycled out of the workforce 30 years ago, after that the shift to an systhem of Oligarchie started.
Thank you for this insightful and comprehensive dialogue on the topic of the self inflicted demise of American imperialism.
He did not say anything of value. He just sprouted crap.
@@bighands69 I guess you found the truth unpalatable.
@@jackiebiggs7071
What is the truth?
Well it will depend on what kind of truth. Objectively on recordable events or subjectively on what you believe.
Mr Sachs has been extremely consistent in his honest articulation and fairness in how the world should function
On a side note. America did not invent the Internet. It was invented by the English scientist Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee while working at CERN in Switzerland. Exceptionalism is one helluva drug.
When sociopathic corporations take over your political system and media, what results do you expect to get? It is playing out exactly as one would expect.
Wow! This man is one of the brightest man I have ever heard. Love your integrity man. Salut
Jeff, brilliant mind at work!
As a Canadian I've never really fully understood this whole thing about American exceptionalism. It always seemed like nationalistic propaganda to me, but to see this gentleman deal with it in such a succinct fashion is very fulfilling to me personally. Now if only a lot of Americans would pay attention to this they might not ever elect somebody like Donald Trump again!
This ain't all on trump, the man was an idiot, I will give you that. Every president since FDR and every administration should be charged with crimes against humanity. I am an idiot too, so you don't have to believe me ask Noam Chomsky or check out some of his work. I've heard he is a man of some intellect.
Americans, and even foreigners, probably view the US as exceptional because it is the richest country in the world, and probably the biggest cultural influence as well. That is not enough to be exceptional, I agree. At the end of the day, it is a country of people, and there are good and bad ones everywhere. But I would suggest that the US is exceptional, not because it is rich, but because it has a unique political system, made possible by being a young country (founded in 1776, compared to the old countries in Europe and elsewhere), rooted in the principle that government should work for the people and not the other way around (ie, the government should be small). This does make it different from other countries, and that is what "exceptional" means, it means "to be an exception". This is why the USA is still called today "an experiment". Whether you want to make the connection between this fact and the fact that it is the richest country on earth, it is up to you. You do not have to believe in the superiority of american people (in capabilities nor morality) to believe this.
That comes from eugenics and racial hygiene and how it moved from the US to Nazi Germany
@@DF-ss5ep You falsely equate a government "that works for the people" with the idea that it should be small. That may have been the case back in 1776, but our world is much more complex and the global scope of problems need more concerted efforts. Besides, this idea is merely a conservative/Republican belief (that's what it is) with a tenuous link to reality. The US government's size is huge everywhere it shouldn't be and is atrophied where it should be big. This idea is trotted about as an "anti-socialist" argument that only makes sense in the warped, swiss-cheesed brains of American citizenry who haven't a clue what socialism is but 'know' that it is bad; oh unless money is being pumped in bombs, mass surveillance or Washington to deregulate yet another reasonable and hard-won protection for its people. BTW historically, this argument has no bearing in reality either: the US' greatest accomplishments are the result of massive government spending: the Internet, Interstate system, Hoover Dam and other essential infrastructure projects, everything NASA has done, etc. No corporation can do these things because of the risk involved and delayed return on investment (if any). Long-term, structural massive government investments are what drive innovation, not private enterprise. Don't let self-serving rich guys tell you otherwise. It is how the US built itself, and how Japan, Korea and now China have been so successful so quickly. These strategic but massive government projects allow private enterprise to innovate in their wake; no Internet, no Google; no Interstate system, no mass market for cars; no NASA, no Tesla/Blue Origin/Virgin Galactic.
Also, there's nothing really exceptional about the US' political system, there are many democracies like it; and one could argue that most if not all OECD countries have governments that work better for their citizens than in the US--and most metrics would bear that fact. Check any annual OECD report for at least the past 20 years.
About the US being the "richest country in the world"; well that's a matter of perspective. How do you define and measure it? If you say GDP or GDP per capita they're a gross estimate falling out of favor with economists because they are really meaningless and more the tools of propaganda constantly repeated by economists playing politics and politicians. Bombs dropped on schoolkids in Iraq and gas burned/wasted while stuck in an L.A. traffic jam contribute positively to GDP while public waterworks installed once and lasting decades or more, or a more efficient commuter in Germany using a train to get to work contributes less to GDP. A more nuanced and granular understanding of economics and wealth is necessary. Furthermore, like every other great power before it, the USA lucked out. Its natural endowment, geology, bio-geography, latitudinal position etc. are truly exceptional. Aside from great mineral wealth, rich healthy lands "bequeathed" by "Indians", and a sweet spot for a varied and highly productive agriculture, the US benefited from massive fossil fuel reserves, enough to be self-sufficient for quite some time and power it through 2 industrial revolutions. This, more than anything else, gave it an edge.
IMO America would be truly exceptional if it hadn't squandered its capital like a reckless, retarded, trust fund kid with endless wars and concentrated on building itself and its people. Every time I go to the US I'm appalled by rural and urban poverty, concentration of wealth, and terrible infrastructure. From my perspective, you're still stuck in orthodoxy rooted in beliefs in founding myths and ephemeral American preeminence. That's about to change.
They have the right elect Donald Trump again, in fact, they have the right to elect who ever they want.
Much respect as always to Prof Sachs - I love to listen to his train of thoughts. One can put the American "exceptionalism" in simple terms if one looks at the never ending wars since practically its existence. They never overcame the criminal past of the ex-convicts who were settled in the then overseas territory and who killed millions of red Indians with impunity nor did they leave the "Wild West" and cowboy mentality behind them. Up until today they believe that everything can and should be solved with a gun. To those who are familiar with the PNAC (Project for a New American Century) - the thinking has never changed, only the weapons have become more sophisticated.
Example 1: how they claim to bring "Freedom and Democracy" to those downtrodden on the wings of their B52 bombers ... they bomb the countries to smithereens, the last 4 Presidents (excl. Trump) caused alone in the Middle East roughly 11 Mio civilian casualties (talking about war crimes!!!!), loot their resources and walk away after years and years of robbery. Or as they did in their fight against the Taliban - after 20 years of fighting "terrorism of the Taliban" ... they handed not only the country back to them but also as a little gift sophisticated and functioning weaponry!
Example 2: how they believe that everybody must dance to their tunes and if not, they simple organize and finance through their Embassies and operatives on the ground a coup in the most plump and obvious ways (to add insult to injury I guess) to change the government of any state ... and in reality all they want is just to plunder their natural resources. One could also engage in trading on a level of partnership rather than highway robbery like the US does.
The reason why there was no "Coup d'Etat" so far in the United States is simple ... there is no US Embassy there ...
Its deeper than that the Americans see their nation as exceptional because they believed they defeated the British empire on their own, never mind others did most of fighting for them. The Americans marvel at how they did it, so to them they must be exceptional as God shone his eyes upon America. It this belief that under pins the American exceptional thought. It does not matter the British army won most of its battles and its navy only lost one off Yorktown. The problem is the US ignores the fact other nations funded them and help them win, in fact all they had to do was be like the French and be on the winning team, in which they did. The exceptional myth is powerful for them, it also raises them as another chosen people who must dominate. Telling American's this, they get very shirty when i say well if America is exceptional, then the brits must be even more because they could speak the "American" language well before the Americans did and that makes them rather exceptional lol.
This interview seems to have a lot in common with the message from Chris Hedges' book: 'America, The Farewell Tour'. Any thoughts?
The thoughts are that you cannot deny there is a collapse of the whole American structure and the country or its people have not made amends to change that structure.
The US behaves the same as it has been for over 60 years, nothing has changed, new presidents come and go but the entire structure of how things operate remains the same.
However as the US continues to live in this bubble, the rest of the world has moved on, now the US is falling behind because it clings to this dream that they are and should be as they have in the past.
No one, not a single president or government has or will change anything, Trump is no different than what has come before.
Chris is a little extreme. US is still leader in many areas. It's still dominant player in most important industries. Most educated Chinese people knows that and have no intention to take over US but rather to cooperate with US even after many years of development China might catch up. However US elites see it differently.
Both books can be useful as door stop.
@@jaychen512 because the US doesn't have partners, they have vassals, and if you refuse to be their vassals, then they sanction you. Period!
First thought I had. But people that lived in Europe and them comes to the US...can only shake their head.
All empires decline, but the US could decline gracefully and maintain stability and the wellbeing of its citizens, but only if it decides to cooperate with other countries. It could at last be what it has claimed to be, the leading democracy, rather than a war-making, gas-burning, inefficient, destructive machine. Britain, admittedly with a bit of pushing, gradually handed over the leadership to the US (remember WW2 and the Suez Crisis). Does the US have the intelligence to do the same?
Robin Sen...no it does not have that intelligence....the strongest nation in the world cannot function without a taboo around the fact it might not be precisely that;-)
Afraid not, the politicians will fight to the death of every soldier , sailor and airman and then claim victory. Trump is the last person that the U.S.A. needed at this time. It needed a negotiator and statesman to work with other countries and iron out differences. Sanctions and threats are exactly what the U.S.A. desperately does not need now. It is already third World and two more years of the Trump policy and it will 1929 again.
@@douglaskay9959 I hope your job gets outsourced. You talk like a Government employed parasite boomer.
@@akompsupport My job got outsourced 39 years ago when I retired at age 55 having built a boat and sailed away.
Capitalism is a disease. Socialism is the cure
I’m happy you hv identified the problem. Most poor people hv know this economic ugliness for at least 30 years. They lived it.
Now,
What are we to do?
Revolution?
American should stop believing ones own HYPES..stop living thru an Hollywood perfect Movies.
This.
Without America the world would have been conquered by socialists a long time ago.
@@bighands69
Most of the world already is, even with America's scary help.
But it makes me feel so much better to think this way!
@Robert Clawson
Americans are hard workers and get rewarded for it with an amazing economy that nobody in the else in the world has.
Hard work and low taxes creates an amazing economy.
Thank you both for putting some truth back into the world.
Thank you Profesor Sachs for all those interesting and intelligent talk about our country situation in this difficult time. Especially to all elders people who gave so much to our country and now we feel the necessity o those smart President and senators are going away from our United State country. I don’t understand how greedy and unpolitical way to solve problems.
We trust in USA and need better young politicians to try to bring back everything on better way. I loving this country and
amazing video, It is refreshing to hear an Murikan speak the truth not the BS