As the European energy crisis continues to intensify, the political situation of European countries has also begun to become unstable. For example, Britain changed three prime ministers in just 50 days, and Tras broke the record of the shortest term in history; the Italian far-right alliance came to power, and Meloni was elected Prime Minister of Italy; in addition, demonstrations of tens of thousands of people broke out in many European countries. These changes in Europe have made more and more American and European scholars feel dissatisfied with the United States, believing that the United States is making the world worse.
According to Observer Network on October 30, , a professor at Columbia University who just publicly criticized the United States on the Athens forum not long ago, Sax once again publicly criticized the United States. He participated in a podcast program hosted by Austrian Radio and Television host Renata Schmidtkunz. He publicly stated on the show that the elite politicians in the United States now do not care about the so-called American values at all, and they only care whether the United States can maintain its global leadership. He believes that the United States has taken the wrong path and should learn to recognize the rise of China and India, rather than relying on lies and stirring up the geopolitical landscape to maintain American interests.
In this episode, the host and Professor Sax communicated on issues such as the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and international law . In the interview, the host talked about the old topic "American values". Regarding this topic, Sax said bluntly that Americans now do not care about American values, but they pay more attention to the actual interests of the United States. If a regime is not in the interests of the United States, the United States may overthrow it and then build a regime that the White House is expected of , and at the same time deploy military base .
Therefore, Sax pointed out that American values are actually just American sweet words, just a diplomatic banner of the United States. The reason why the United States does this is to maintain the unipolar world dominated by the United States and prevent the development of global multipolarization trends. Regarding the bad consequences caused by these sweet words in the United States, Professor Sax listed the example of the Afghan War . This 20-year war not only failed to make Afghan richer and more civilized, but in fact it became more barren there. Therefore, Sax said bluntly that the core of American politics is actually the interests dominated by elites, and it is fundamental to allow the United States to obtain resources or strength through a war.
In addition to the Afghan War, he talked about related issues of countries around Russia. The United States has been trying to "take over Black Sea ". Become a key force influencing Eastern Europe. To achieve this, we must intervene in the situation in Ukraine and Georgia . According to Professor Sax, whether it is the Russian-Ukrainian conflict this year or the Russian-Germany war that occurred in 2008, it is actually just a step in the United States' intervention in Eastern Europe and trying to become the "Black Sea leader". In addition to Eastern Europe, Professor Sachs also mentioned the East Asia region. He said that the United States hopes to establish a new order in East Asia, similar to , Western Europe, and Eastern Europe, but China has become a resistance.
In order to make China's international image worse, the United States began to declare that China was "very warlike" and "destroy the international order of ". In this regard, Professor Sax believes that China has never participated in any war in the past 40 years and is actively promoting reconciliation in conflict areas. On the contrary, the United States often launches wars and is the most warlike country in the world in the past 30 years. Since 1950, the United States has embarked on the path of developing war machines, and since 1990, the United States has carried out more than 100 military interventions around the world. If there is disputes there, there will be no possibility of US military presence, even if there is no benefit in that place.
After experiencing a long-term disruption in the Middle East, the United States began to point its finger at Russia and China, and at the same time it hits the printing degree. Sax believes that the United States should change its thinking. From a historical perspective, the rise of China and India is an inevitable change in global historical development. The gradual development and growth of more dynamic emerging economies are objective laws of economics. Western countries should learn to adapt and cooperate with it. The West has dominated the world for more than 100 years, but this pattern is changing. Europe and the United States should not impose Western values on other countries and use them to dominate the world, nor should it advocate the so-called "threat". Only in this way can the whole world concentrate its efforts on the problems faced by the world.
Although Professor Sax did not talk about the problems facing the world, based on the current international situation, people are most concerned about epidemic prevention and control, the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, energy price increase, grain production reduction, inflation and industrial chain issues. Judging from these core issues of global concern, the United States seems to have played a disgraceful role. The United States used the origin-tracing issue to be labeled in the epidemic, undermining the overall situation of global anti-epidemic cooperation; on the issue of the Russian-Ukraine conflict, the United States-led NATO continued to win over Ukraine, causing Russia to stand on the risk; on the issue of energy, the United States took advantage of the interruption of Russian-European energy cooperation and took the opportunity to sell the high-priced liquefied natural gas in the United States; on the issue of grain production cuts, the United States accused other countries of hoarding food; on the issue of inflation and industrial chain, the United States wielded the big stick of trade sanctions to hit other countries, resulting in instability in the global trade chain, and objectively promoted the occurrence of high global inflation.
Professor Sax believes that the United States has actually been using various excuses to manipulate the public to support the war in the United States. A few American politicians use the " geopolitical game" to maintain the international status of the United States, which actually has nothing to do with the so-called "American values". The various problems existing in American society now show that this "American values" themselves seem unreliable.
Sax's views are in line with his previous statements on the Greek Athens Forum. He previously publicly stated on Greece that the United States is a brutal country. He also criticized the United States for not playing a disgraceful role in the Nord Stream Pipeline bombing and the COVID-19 traceability issue. As one of the most well-known economists in the world, Sax also serves as professor and director at Columbia University and Harvard University. He believes that there are problems in the US economic policy, especially in the field of foreign cooperation, which has led to the global economy becoming more unbalanced. Now one in seven Americans are in a semi-hungry state, while the US policy still tends toward the wealthy class, so he believes that the US has gone the wrong way. However, his voice cannot affect American politics, and the professor's appeal was issued in accordance with his professional ethics. Even if he is telling the truth, I am afraid that the United States will continue to follow the wrong path he said until it finally disintegrates.
