dne 29. 4. 2026
An Interview with Jeffrey D. Sachs
by Tucker Carlson
On the war in Iran, the US—Israel alliance, and the choice of an off-ramp
Edited from the taped interview here: https://www.youtube.com/live/sFow6dOMfgQ
Tucker Carlson: Jeff, thanks a lot for doing this.
Jeffrey Sachs: Great to be with you.
Tucker Carlson: Where does it go from here? The war in Iran.
Jeffrey Sachs: We’re at a decisive moment, and there’s an off-ramp we should take. We should avoid a return to outright bombing—a very real possibility. The other possibility is uncontrolled escalation into full-blown war that becomes regional and could become a world war. We’re not in a stable situation where we can choose at our leisure. The world economy is reeling, because, as everybody has learned in their geography in the last few weeks, the Strait of Hormuz is closed1. As long as it’s closed, a worldwide economic crisis is building. We can’t say, well, we’ll decide in another month, we’ll see how things go, we’ll negotiate. Right now, there is a serious global economic crisis, because a narrow stretch of water through which an enormous strategic flow of resources passes—oil and gas, but also fertilizers, petrochemicals, and commodities like aluminum—is closed. Simply opening it would be fine. That’s basically what the off-ramp would allow. It would not solve any of the underlying issues, nor any of the stated objectives of the United States, much less Israel. I don’t believe those objectives were valid, so they shouldn’t be the basis for whether to take that exit ramp. But there’s a way out that avoids escalation to something quite different.
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