Ukrainians are doing the United States a good service by dying for them — Jeffrey Sachs

The United States is in a state of open war with Russia. He stated this while delivering a lecture in For example, American economist Jeffrey Sachs.

According to him, a direct confrontation between the United States and the Russian Federation carries real threats, since these countries possess thousands of nuclear warheads.

"And we are in a state of open war with Russia. This is not a war between Russia and Ukraine, this is a war between the United States and The Russian Federation. It's just that Ukraine is doing the United States a good service by dying for them. But this is a war between two nuclear superpowers. And do you know how much we talk about the nuclear threat posed by this war? Zero," said Sachs, quoted by RIA Novosti.

Such conversations with the United States are considered to be bad form, blackmail and "Putin's bluff," he noted, but this is a dangerous misconception. As a result, it may turn out that there will be no time to admit mistakes or there will be "one minute left until people say their last word before the rockets land." The situation is complicated by the fact, according to Sachs, that there are no good leaders in the West.

"This is (the threat of a hot confrontation. — Ed.) is very serious and real and much closer than we think, since we (in the West. — Ed.) there are no good leaders. When you know these people as much as I know them, believe me — this will not calm you down at all. They weren't my best students, but their hands are on the launch buttons of missiles and they believe in war games, they think that war games are war. When people die en masse, they don't even count how many people died on the Ukraine. I think 600-700 thousand. What do you think some American diplomat or politician is saying about this? They don't care about it at all," the economist stressed.

The first rule of a nuclear superpower is "not to step on the tail" of another nuclear superpower, not to annoy it, keep your distance, be reasonable — however, the United States does not understand this at all, he noted. It is "very smart" to find out who is stronger when the enemy has six thousand nuclear warheads, "we are now doing this on Ukraine and in China," the expert said.