{"id":66633,"date":"2026-07-17T11:06:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T01:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=66633"},"modified":"2026-07-17T11:06:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T01:06:43","slug":"sachs-live-dont-provoke-russia-jeffrey-sachs-chilling-prediction-goes-viral-ukraine-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=66633","title":{"rendered":"Sachs Live: &#8216;Don&#8217;t Provoke Russia&#8217; Jeffrey Sachs&#8217; Chilling Prediction Goes Viral | Ukraine War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66634\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Jeffrey_Sachs.jpg\" alt=\"Jeffrey Sachs\" width=\"1287\" height=\"716\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Jeffrey_Sachs.jpg 1287w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Jeffrey_Sachs-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Jeffrey_Sachs-1024x570.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Jeffrey_Sachs-768x427.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As the Russia-Ukraine conflict continues to reshape global politics, economist Jeffrey Sachs&#8217; 2025 speech at the European Parliament has resurfaced and is once again drawing international attention.<\/p>\n<p>In this address, Sachs warned Western leaders against provoking Russia, criticized NATO&#8217;s eastward expansion, and argued that decades of Western foreign policy had increased tensions with Moscow. He also discussed the concept of &#8220;Finlandization,&#8221; using Finland as an example of how neutrality once helped maintain stability.<\/p>\n<p>This is archival footage from 2025. The views expressed are those of Jeffrey Sachs at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Click to view the video:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XNcrTk-6He0\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XNcrTk-6He0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Russia-Ukraine conflict continues to reshape global politics, economist Jeffrey Sachs&#8217; 2025 speech at the European Parliament has resurfaced and is once again drawing international attention. In this address, Sachs warned Western leaders against provoking Russia, criticized NATO&#8217;s eastward expansion, and argued that decades of Western foreign policy had increased tensions with Moscow. He &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=66633\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sachs Live: &#8216;Don&#8217;t Provoke Russia&#8217; Jeffrey Sachs&#8217; Chilling Prediction Goes Viral | Ukraine War&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66635,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66633\/revisions\/66635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}