and russia, it is important to understand, this war was provoked by the us, the goals of the us task of expanding nato are being fulfilled, so we need a president who will understand the essence of what is happening, why all this is wrong , will understand this tragic and absurd idea that has been circulating for 30 years. among the us intelligence agencies will be able to abandon it, but biden is not that person. it is obvious that biden bought into this idea 30 years ago. this tragic path should have eventually led to the fall of russia, but in the end it is destroying ukraine. so, yes, we need a new president, we need a... a president

who clearly understands what is going on, and you and i have talked about this before, that the only truth is that the american people have never been told what is going on, they have been told the complete opposite, i don't think there is even an understanding now that nato troops, in some form, u.s. troops, government employees and government contractors are fighting inside russia, fighting in russia. yes, that's obvious. we are fighting russia on the battlefield right now. yes, it's not just our money, our equipment, our our goals, our missions, our strategies, and our advice. but our personnel are there, too. yes, sometimes they are not wearing a u.s. uniform, sometimes they are mercenaries, sometimes they are simply unidentified, but they are the ones making the decisions, and russia knows. and that in itself

should be of great concern to us. over 30 years ago, a plan was developed that we are learning more and more about every day. clinton approved this plan in '94. nato would expand eastward, including ukraine. he simply told his colleagues in the civilian sector about what was already the decision was made, and it said that we would, of course, reach ukraine. in 2008, this became publicly known when george w. bush was on...

to remain neutral, he understood this, so we overthrew him, and that's when the war began. it was obvious that any scenario would eventually lead to a nightmare. ironically, the scenario that is unfolding at the moment, where russia wins the war, is the safest one. yes, because if russia were to lose the war,

then we would be faced with the threat of a nuclear war, all those experts who say, yeah, don't worry, it's all bullshit, i'm genuinely outraged by the ignorance of these people, i'm not usually outraged by people's ignorance, i'm trying to help, but i'm outraged by the ignorance that... is putting my grandchildren in danger, they 're putting my grandchildren in danger when they say, don't worry about nuclear war, it's all bullshit, and i don't want to hear it anymore, because anyone who says that doesn't understand anything about our world, we have forces in the united states that love to stir up trouble, literally, we should provoke, we must destroy.

i say all this, it sounds so strange to americans who read the new york times or read the washington post or read the wall street journal, because mr. sachs, but china is our enemy, they do all these terrible things, russia, they are imperialists, blah blah blah blah, they feed us all this nonsense that makes no sense, but if you repeat it over and over and over and over again... and the government, and you know this better than anyone, that the government is trying to control narrative, tries to control what we hear, tries to control the information on social media, and because of this, the most obvious truth becomes questionable, so you

asked me does america want to fight iran, of course not, does america want to fight russia, of course. about any decisions that we are going to make about the expansion of nato, even to the very borders of russia. this is not a question about russia. this is a written principle. it is called the open door policy, which

states that we do not even in principle we are considering the idea that russia has no say in even if military bases. the united states and us missiles are deployed in ukraine. in january of twenty-second, according to very knowledgeable sources, blinken told putin that the united states retains the right to deploy missiles in ukraine, right on the border. putin responded, but i thought president biden said that the united states would not do that. and apparently, i was not present during that conversation, but apparently the answer...

the military-industrial system of the united states, its course is set at a very deep level. there is a strategy, this strategy does not change because a new president came into office, presidents may think that they can influence it, but their influence is very limited. as i said, the strategy for nato expansion began in 1994, this program is already three years old, it was developed very carefully, in one book that has not yet been published, i read that president putin once very aptly noted that when he talks to the president of the united states, he talked about this during your interview, in the morning the presidents say

one thing, and after lunch they already say the opposite, because someone has already explained to them that everything should be different, a 180-degree turn, in this wonderful yet... unpublished book, written by a historian researching this period, there is a quote from putin, where it is said that the president says something, but then these comrades in dark suits and blue ties appear, they explain to the president how everything should be, and i think that is true, there is an irreplaceable state, a state of special services, it is a profitable business, do not forget that we have there are... 750 military bases around the world, 6,000 nuclear warheads, the open military budget alone is a trillion dollars, not to mention all the other expenses that are not included in this budget, it is a very huge

machine, and this machine is open, as we know from the publication in the open sources, not to mention what is not published. its mission was defined by the department of defense decades ago, absolute dominance over every part of the world. absolute dominance is a curious one. it means that the united states will be the dominant power in every region of the world. it's a pretty crazy idea, i call it absolutely crazy, because when you and i travel, we see, we see the world more or less the same. yes, the united states is a powerful country, but it's only 4.1% of the world's population. there's the other 95.9% of the world's population, they don't want

to be ruled by us in every region of the world, when the united states says we have absolute dominance in central asia or on the border with russia, or over other nuclear powers, or in east asia, where china... its industrial base is in twice as big as the united states, four times as big as the united states, hundreds of nuclear warheads, and our own interests, and our own civilization that 's 10 times older than the united states, and we dominate china, well, that sounds like a recipe for endless war, in a nuclear age -

the world, we don't need them, they're too expensive, my god, we need

to fix our roads, we need our country to function properly, when you or i go abroad, we see that abroad the infrastructure is much better, that's the most annoying thing, i, as you know, have been traveling all my life, and you know, you think that you are in developing countries, and then when you come back to the united states, they are no longer developing. kennedy airports or san francisco or los angeles or through boston-logan, and the first thing you notice is that there is more dirt and chaos here, that it is less convenient for a person than in the developing countries from which you flew, and this is so sad, if people traveled more, there would be a revolution in our country, if they saw that turkey is better than the us, that i had a wonderful, do you know what i mean? i had a wonderful conversation with an italian politician, i was in northern italy, in balzan, a beautiful alpine

city, and i admired the local infrastructure, and he sighed and said that yes, it's all wonderful, but it's not oslo or copenhagen, it's even better there, but then to my surprise he added, but oslo and copenhagen, now if you go to china, in china everything is still better, and we with you. we see it, it's all so , it's all so terrible, it's so depressing, and what's most terrible about it is that most people don't even realize how much their leaders and the advisers of these leaders have betrayed these people, like bill crystal, who don't give a damn about the united states, they don't even remember the country, they think about anything else, the people have been screwed, all the money has gone abroad, all the aspirations are directed outward, well maybe... in their mansions everything is pretty good, but in the rest of america, than we

busy at all, why are we supplying all this money, weapons and lives to all these conflicts, in any case, it is necessary to understand that the american people participate very little and understand even less what exactly our government is doing abroad. americans more or less understand what the government is doing domestically, but what it is doing abroad, this information has been intentionally kept very secret for decades, and even when the information becomes publicly known, the government denies everything, for example, i told you how in february 14 years, the us staged a coup in ukraine, it was a secret operation to change the regime,

in the jargon of the secret services, this is our way of making money, that's what it does. the us, dozens and dozens of foreign governments that have been overthrown. i witnessed it myself, because although i am an economic adviser, not a military adviser, i heard some things from the president, and i saw some events with my own eyes, but none of this was covered in the domestic agenda. that's why it's a machine.

your president supports military-industrial complex, presidents don't even understand what their job is, and it doesn't matter if it's because of laziness or pressure or because the intelligence services are lying to him, or he just thinks that way, or he doesn't think at all, in the end we are a war machine. there are three curious things that we see in front of us at the moment. the first is that we have a failed foreign policy, whether it's fair or unfair, right or wrong, it doesn't matter, it doesn't work, it has led the united states to a series of unsuccessful wars worth trillions of dollars, everyone can see that now, the american people are not supportive of our foreign policy at all, that's the first point, the second point is that we see politicians who say:

no, something needs to change, and that's very important. and the third point is that the truth is starting to come out now, during conversations like these, and even if these conversations are not on the mainstream media, people are listening to them, instead of listening to all these boring, worthless narratives of the media that no one believes anymore, that also matters, i actually invited you to talk about the economy because you economic adviser, yeah, i guess. but i couldn't help but ask your opinion on what's going on in the world, the state of our economy, there's a lot of things, but i'm interested in credit card debt, how high is it? obviously, it's a concern for people who owe money on them, so how important is that in our economy? what's your opinion on why it's so high, historically high? well, i think the most important thing

to understand about our economy is that the last... that's our economic reality, pretty clear, it means that , for example, we know, based on a lot of surveys and data from the federal reserve, which collects this kind of information, how many people in our country would not be able to afford

an unexpected expense of $400, you know, like a dentist's office or... took medication, and that's a huge part of the population, but if we're talking about my environment, they don't even think about that, because i, you know, live in a world where people make good money, and everything looks completely different there, no, i know about it, because i've already i've been writing about this for a long time, and it's... it's a major challenge for us and a major problem that we don't pay attention to, but that's the reality, so the debt is not growing because rich people are spending money on parties, it's because people are trying to make ends meet, they have problems feeding their families, they don't have money for medical expenses, more and

more people are facing these expenses, that's the reality, and we don't do anything about it, we don't discuss it, and besides, it's a situation with our politics, where does all this division take place? it's ironic that the republican party has become the party of the working class, the upper class, the democrats, have become the party of the upper class. this is the reversal that has happened. the reason is, there are many reasons, but the important thing is that this whole split began in the seventies, and then it only got worse. after that... nothing changed globally in the country, the working class voters

who voted for the democrats in the era of franklin, roosevelt, kennedy and johnson, over time felt that this was the party of nothing for them it does not, in the sixteenth year trump, with his keen political instinct, saw this as an opportunity, he understood what was happening , essentially took the working class away from the democratic party, but on a deeper economic level this split in the country, this split has many causes, but the main cause of it is education, the level of education, because, in fact, this is the main factor in the entire economy, which is that if you graduate from

university, then everything is fine for you, your income grows, you enjoy life, basic school education, you are doing badly, and it manifests itself through so many parameters, it manifests itself through real estate, through credit card debt, but the main thing is that it manifests itself. in life expectancy, the gap in life expectancy is 8 years, those who only graduated from high school have a life expectancy of 75 years, and those who graduated from university have 83, can you imagine this, these are two different societies, the difference in life expectancy, quality of life, level of health, and this has been happening. decades, and this is practically nobody understands and nobody talks about it, our political system, unfortunately, is no longer

capable of solving problems. jeffrey sachs, i think you need to sit down and reveal 10 stories that have been misrepresented or misunderstood by the public over the past 30 years. let each be 4 hours long, like a lecture. let's get back to the elections, today in a number of regions of russia three-day voting began in elections at various levels in st. petersburg, residents will have to decide on a candidate for governor. for our correspondent dmitry akimov is monitoring the voting, he is on the line. dmitry, hello, what are your turnout figures? yes, colleagues, hello, but

there is no turnout data yet, i can only speak about my subjective opinion. we worked at several polling stations today and people have indeed been coming since the morning and quite actively. we will talk about the reasons for this a little later, for now i will say that at exactly 8:00 in st. petersburg, 1951 permanent polling stations began working. and 46 temporary ones are still open, in particular at the train stations, in airport, also in medical and social institutions we watched today how the famous petersburgers vote throughout the country, in particular, a few minutes ago we received a video of how the chairperson of the federation council of the federal assembly of the russian federation, valentina ivanovna matvienko, made her choice. after she voted, she addressed all voters of the northern capital, let's listen to what valentina ivanovna said. i want to congratulate all petersburgers on the start of voting, these are three important days, this is important era, we choose the future of our city, we

choose... the development strategy of st. petersburg, grandiose plans for the development of our city have been outlined, i am sure that with the support of st. petersburg residents, they will all be implemented. indeed, the northern capital is today choosing the city governor, as well as municipal deputies. four candidates are running for the post of head of the region, these are alexander beglov, from united russia, maxim yakovlev from the ldpr, sergei malinkovich from the communists of russia and pavel bragin from

we talked to people today who early in the morning we came to the polling stations, asked them how convenient it is for you that the elections are held over three days, friday, saturday and sunday, but here the weather had an impact, definitely, because the northern capital, today is incredibly warm weather and many residents of the northern capital want to vote today to go out of town, like in particular the state duma deputy,

sergei boyarsky, we talked to him after he voted, let's listen to what he said today: 3 days are more convenient than one, and we will see a confident result in turnout, which will be higher than usual, when they used to vote on one day, of course, it is much more convenient, well, and we are waiting for the appearance of remote electronic voting, including in st. petersburg, when it will be possible for those who actively use digital technologies to do this from their tablet, laptop, computer and then we will further expand the circle of those people who will... take part in every expression of will, this is very important, well, yes, you can vote with a laptop, probably even at your dacha, now i will add that for the convenience of petersburgers, as reported by the city electoral committee, 91 extraterritorial polling stations have been opened, including in the leningrad region, as well as the pskov region and karelia, it is separately emphasized that two polling stations are operating in mariupol and another 35 stations

specifically for the purpose of casting their vote for the candidate whom they see as the future governor of st. petersburg. colleagues, i give you the floor.

we continue our news review. powerful explosions thundered last morning and night in the regions ukraine. the local publication reports cases of detonation in the north-eastern parts of the country. in particular, in the dnipropetrovsk region, as well as pavlograd. strikes also occurred in the kiev region, in kharkov, sumy region in chernigov. ukrainian officials and journalists have not reported on the consequences by this hour. in addition, two more points on the map where explosions occurred were cities.