Thread by @P_Kallioniemi

In today's #vatniksoup, I'll introduce an American economist and academic and political commentator, Jeffrey Sachs (@JeffreyASachs). He's best-known for his deep hate for the "US hegemony", and for his love for the totalitarian regimes in Russia, China and in Syria.

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Sachs studied economics at Harvard and is currently working as the Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University and as the President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network.

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He's advised various countries on economic policy, including Bolivia, United Arab Emirates and several post-communist economies, often advising with transition from Marxism-Leninism to market economies.

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After successfully stabilizing the Polish economy, Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev and later Russian president Boris Yeltsin asked for his help. He was an adviser to Yegor Gaidar on macroeconomic policies, utilizing so-called economic shock therapy.

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As you may know, the reckless adaptation of market economy in Russia mostly led to poverty, starvation and transfer of wealth to oligarchs and to organized crime.

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For a long time, Sachs has been an advocate for dismantling the "US hegemony". He's a big proponent of the "multipolar world", and has lately suggested that the "world is on the edge of nuclear catastrophe", naturally blaming the US because it's the US that forced Putin...

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...and his acolytes and propagandists to threaten everyone with nukes. He's also suggested that it was actually the CIA that provoked the Soviet Union to attack Afghanistan in 1980. He's blamed CIA's 2011 operations in Syria for Putin's military assistance to al-Assad in...

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