Link here.
Sachs’ comments on his attempts to reach the White House prior to February 24th regarding diplomacy based on Russia’s concerns and the response that it wasn’t going to happen – this is consistent with State Department official Derek Chollet’s comments during an interview in April that the US wasn’t going to seriously negotiate NATO expansion with Russia.
Biden and his cackle of neo-cons who were stealing from the public wheal using Ukraine as a fulcrum to leverage out the money may also have not wanted to speak to Sacks as he’s become something of a gadfly on corruption after being sucked into Bill Clinton’s scam to defraud the Russian and American people. Decent man, but lacks a certain political awareness that can be deadly to bystanders.
In the DN! interview, Sachs points fingers at the neocons and clintonites who he claims did not take his advice on Russia to apply some debt relief along with the neoliberal shock therapy — avoiding any acknowledgement of his role in the Russian disaster of neoliberal privatization. Sachs goes on to claim that Clinton did take his advice on Poland – whose shock therapy he is proud of. Poland’s shock therapy was also a disaster – with high unemployment and loss of GDP — let alone the loss of sovereignty making it a puppet state controlled by the IMF/US.
I particularly like this quote about Sachs from Shock Doctrine: “Sachs, it must be said, has a notoriously selective memory when it comes to the draconian policies he pushed in both Poland and Russia.”
I agree his memory is selective. The only saving grace for Poland is that Germany found it easier to use Poles than East Germans as a stick to apply it’s own shock therapy to West German labors demands. Russia is too big to play the role of Taiwan or South Korea (and later China) to an American market equivalent in Western Europe. It had very little to do with the neo-liberal therapy Sachs worked on, and if not for the expat remittance, Poland would be in very sorry shape.