In a May 12 interview on the YouTube channel of the “non-attached Member of the European Parliament” Fidias Panayiotou, Jeffrey Sachs describes the following as, “one theorem of mine,” namely, that “All problems in the world go back to the British.”
He went on to detail how, “that’s true in Pakistan, in India, in China, the Mideast, and here in Cyprus. They were the most powerful Empire for 200 years and left behind conflicts everywhere. You know, the disaster in Palestine right now—the reason is that between 1915 and 1917, the British promised the same territory to three groups: First the McMann communication, the British promised it to the Arabs—‘You fight with us against the Turks, it’s yours.’ Then they negotiated the Sykes-Picot Treaty, to say to the French, ‘It’s yours.’ Then the Balfour Declaration in 1917, they said, ‘It’s a Jewish Homeland.’
“So the British promised three times land that wasn’t even theirs. They’ve got a lot of nerve as far as I’m concerned. Even today, Starmer acts like an imperialist. He doesn’t have anything to back it up really, although he’s got a few nuclear weapons that could destroy the world. But the rest is a bunch of imperial nostalgia, let’s say—grand empire wannabes. In any event, they fit the mold, all British problems are tough ones. They were really cynical, so they tied everything up in knots. And now you need to disentangle all of this. But this is where the problem originates.”
