Some in The Establishment Are Turning Against the Establishment Lies

It’s difficult to think of a more establishment figure than Jeffrey Sachs. He has advised the World Bank, the IMF, and the United Nations. He was a member of the COVID-19 Commission.

In 2008, he was listed by Vanity Fair magazine as one of the 100 members of the “New Establishment.” He was also a professor at Columbia University and head of its Center for Sustainable Development.

Sachs is a true globalist and an establishment figure through and through. Yet, he has dissented from the mainstream media view on Ukraine.

Sachs understands that the war never should have started; it was provoked by the U.S. on a continual basis since 2008 with the provocation coming to a head in 2014 with a U.S.-backed coup to depose the democratically elected pro-Russian president of Ukraine at the time.

Now, Sachs knows Russia is winning, Ukraine is being destroyed, and the war is in danger of escalating to the point of a nuclear conflict between the U.S. and Russia. Instead of praising Sachs’s clear thinking, this article is a case study in what happens to establishment figures when they defy the establishment and disagree on policy.

Suddenly, Sachs has been branded as a “Putin stooge,” a “conspiracy theorist,” and a “useful idiot.” He is being attacked by establishment rags like the Atlantic and will not be invited to establishment pow-wows like the Aspen Ideas Festival and Davos.

Ukraine is not the only space where Sachs has staked out non-establishment views. He was early in suggesting the pandemic virus came from the laboratory in Wuhan, China (a view I expressed in 2021 in my book The New Great Depression).

So, Sachs may be an establishment figure, but let’s give him credit for telling the truth about Ukraine and COVID. That’s more than the establishment is willing to do.

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