The American Economics Professor Jeffrey Sachs claims the “Coalition of the Willing,” comprised of France, Germany, Great Britain and Poland, is doomed to failure in their bid to back Ukraine and defeat Russia.
“The European Union, at least rhetorically, is already taking the lead. It’s playing the tough guys. It’s not the European Union exactly. It’s Britain, France, Germany, and Poland, the so-called four musketeers who are going to continue the fight against Russia. But they are rhetorically saying, ‘we must continue, we must re-arm, we must never surrender, we must never compromise.’ And so they’re actually taking the lead. Now, can they live up to those words with the military aid for Ukraine and so forth? No, in that sense, no. They can’t make this military victory of Ukraine happen. This is for sure,” Sachs told TASS in an interview published on May 31.
Stressing the fact that anti-Russian sanctions have failed, Sachs said, “the sanctions regime did not crush the Russian economy.... So the sanctions regime did not work. It didn’t produce the results that the Western governments expected. It did not have enormous deleterious effects, and in some ways, it really strengthened the Russian economy.”
Sachs pointed out that sanctions have helped Russia in some ways, including improving its relations with India and China, and have led to an increase in the production of domestic products that were formerly imported.
