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Just how bad are things and just how bad could things get?
Professor Jeffrey Saxs, he believes we are already in the early stages of World War II.
>> Israel has just plunged the world into probably the third world war, but into a phenomenal economic crisis.
>> We have reports that Russia is providing Iran with intel about the locations and movements of American troops, ships, and aircraft.
When you look at that, when you look at the fact we're already in this proxy conflict in Ukraine with Russia, when you look at, you know, you've got a proxy conflict going on in Sudan as well. Obviously, we're, you know, in our own hemisphere, Venezuela.
Now, we're belligerently threatening Cuba as well. It does have some of the ingredients of a broader confilration, especially when you add on the table the possibility of deployment of nuclear weapons, which I don't think either one of us can rule out.
>> Even when people say World War II, the expectation of World War II is this going to look like World War II. Well, World War II looks nothing like World War II. So, the idea that the new frontier of battle is going to look exactly like some carbon copy of something that happened 80 years ago is preposterous.
It is going to look actually exactly like it does right now.
You and I consider the Ukraine war to be a proxy conflict.
That is a global conflict.
conflict because all of NATO, the United States, sanctions, the entire economic system, all of these US institutions which were designed post World War II were leveraged against Russia.
literally to me is basically warfare.
In the postw World War II era, this is what global conflicts look like.
global conflicts look like. Afghanistan became globalized.
Vietnam became globalized. Uh Syria globalized. So
World War II, if you will, is going to look a lot more like this because of mutually assured destruction and nuclear weapons between the great superpowers.
It will look a lot more like those conflicts that happened throughout the Cold War.
So I think that's why we need to recalibrate some of our expectations.
And I don't think Jeffrey Sachs is wrong.
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