According to the Columbia University professor, Viktor Orbán sees the world situation clearly.
This is a war that should never have happened and would not have happened if the US had behaved better and if the US and Russia had done what they should have done since 1992, which is to be mutually respectful and would have formed a cooperative relationship - told Eurasia about the war in Ukraine. According to the professor, the biggest mistake of the United States was that it actually planned to expand NATO to Ukraine already in the early nineties. This unipolar world order was about its reinforcement.
According to Sachs, this attitude was wrong, dangerous, provocative and arrogant.
And if the US hadn't done that, we'd have a much, much safer and more cooperative world. He also said that "everyone loses" in this war. The biggest loser is, of course, Ukraine, as the country is being destroyed by the war. Europe is the next biggest loser because the economic and social consequences are enormous. The United States is also losing because it has spent over a hundred billion dollars and because most of the world does not agree with its position.
Most of the world wants the war to end
without NATO expanding further. “Washington still has the illusion that it is somehow the global leader. But you can't be a global leader if most of the world doesn't want to follow you," he added. The professor pointed out that geopolitics and the world economy are going through dramatic changes, and multiple perspectives are emerging. One of these is the integrated Eurasia, where the vast majority of the world's population lives.
On Europe's place in the changing world order, he said, "Europe has strangely sided completely with the United States." However, he emphasized that
there are European leaders, such as Viktor Orbán, who see the situation clearly.
According to Sachs, the US aims to be a global hegemon. That is why he has fought numerous wars and participated in dozens of covert and overt regime change operations to overthrow foreign governments in recent times. On the other hand, according to him, China, which naturally benefits enormously from the geopolitical transformation, meanwhile tries to pursue win-win cooperation with other countries.
According to the professor, that's exactly why
the absolutely correct concept is the one represented by the Hungarian government.
Hungary is in the middle of Europe, close to the former Soviet Union, the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. It can play a great connecting role. I hope that not only Hungary understands this, but also Brussels.
"We need a multipolar world where we don't rank countries, where we have peaceful relations between different parts of the world"
Sachs said.
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