Jeffrey Sachs | The Iran War Will Break America | Sept. 16, 2026

Source: Cyrus Janssen youtube



Description:
Professor Jeffrey Sachs joins Cyrus Janssen to discuss the Iran war, Donald Trump, and America’s declining influence around the world. He explains why the United States needs to leave Iran, pursue direct diplomacy, and rethink its role in the Middle East. They also discuss Trump’s trade war with Canada, America’s growing debt, political corruption, and the power of the military-industrial complex. Sachs also addresses whether Trump is accelerating America’s decline—and why his proposed $5,000 checks simply don’t add up.

Chapters:
00:00 - Intro to Jeffrey Sachs
00:30 - What is the US trying to accomplish in Iran?
01:30 - Why Iran is not Venezuela
02:40 - Why the price of oil will only increase
03:34 - How dangerous is the world economy
05:01 - Will Trump steal the upcoming election?
06:30 - Why Trump is mentally unstable to serve
07:30 - What is the threat of AI?
08:30 - Can America still influence the Middle East?
10:10 - Why Iran needs direct diplomacy
11:05 - Why the Middle East doesn't need the USA
12:15 - Why the US doesn't have the power anymore
13:02 - Is America First policy finished?
13:58 - Why Trump should not be president
14:55 - Why every problem in America is self-inflicted
17:25 - The sunk cost fallacy for US politicians
18:22 - Why the United States should leave Iran
19:10 - Why Trump attacked Canada
21:20 - Why Trump's trade war is failing
22:25 - Why Mark Carney and Canada are winning
23:20 - Is Trump the cause of America's decline?
24:15 - Why the military industrial complex is to blame
25:25 - How American politics became corrupt
27:10 - How America became $40 trillion in debt
28:27 - Why Trump can't give Americans $5000 checks
29:55 - Closing thoughts 

Jeffrey Sachs | Who Will Shape the Emerging World Order? | Sep. 4, 2026

Source: India & Global Left youtube



Description: 

Jeffrey Sachs on India & Global Left: US decline, a multipolar order, and what Ukraine, Iran and Palestine show about the existing system.

In this interview:

• Is the American world order in decline?
• What does "American decline" actually mean?
• Are we entering a genuinely multipolar world?
• Ukraine, Iran and Palestine: what do these crises reveal about the existing world order?
• The decline of American financial power
• Can the global financial system become more egalitarian?
• IMF, global finance and the Global South
• What should India do?

Jeffrey Sachs & The Duran | Geopolitical Lies Fuel Financial Bubble | Sep. 1, 2026

Source: The Duran youtube



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Jeffrey Sachs joins Alexander Mercouris and Alex Christoforou on why the collapse of American and European hegemony is a crisis for the Western political class, not the world. Sachs on Scott Bessent’s economic D-Day, 1914 parallels, and why Iran, China and Russia are stronger than Western leaders admit.

Timeline:
00:00:00 Intro: Jeffrey Sachs joins The Duran
00:00:59 Alexander’s overview of crises in Ukraine, Iran, China and the economy
00:02:01 Sachs frames it as a crisis of Western hegemony, not the world
00:04:27 Why Europe’s behavior is even stranger than America’s
00:06:18 Multipolarity is good for living standards, not a disaster
00:08:34 Grandiosity, denial and the collapse of truthful government narratives
00:10:30 How the geopolitical bubble is fueling a financial bubble
00:12:22 The public already senses something is deeply wrong
00:14:46 Reading Foreign Affairs: the establishment’s five scenarios for world order
00:20:28 Scott Bessent’s economic D Day and the backlash it triggered
00:23:05 Alexander on Britain’s decline and the origins of World War One
00:27:48 Parallels and differences between 1914 and today
00:32:54 Why China is not the new Kaiser Wilhelm
00:36:22 Inside the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and BRICS
00:41:43 The truth about Iran’s civilization, resilience and economy
00:44:18 How the US weaponized the dollar, and why it is failing
00:48:01 Can the West face reality before the reckoning arrives
00:52:09 Why ordinary people, not elites, may be the last hope