Jeffrey Sachs was interviewed Feb. 23 on “The Point” program on CGTN, the day following Hussein Askary on the same program, and on the Nord Stream sabotage as well. Sachs, who is scheduled to speak at the Berlin rally against NATO and the proxy war on Feb. 25, started by calling Seymour Hersh’s article “credible.” “The points have not been refuted. The attack had to have been done at the state level. Only a few governments could do it.” He named some, including Russia, and “Russia had no incentive to destroy its own pipeline. Western intelligence has found ‘zero evidence’” (citing Washington Post article of December) that Russia had anything to do with it.
The United States, he said, had to know and agree. American politicians hated Nord Stream. And Secretary of State Antony Blinken called the sabotage of it “a great opportunity” to take Europe’s energy market. “The evidence is overwhelming in this direction right now.” Sachs concluded, “The world needs to know, and the world needs to follow up.” And he added that the German government, which partly owned and was greatly involved in building the pipelines, owes this to its citizens.
