"We Are Already in the Early Days of World War III"

Jeffrey Sachs, 9/5/26

"We Are Already in the Early Days of World War III"

"We are probably in the early days of World War III - and the question is whether it can be contained." Economist and Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs returns for one of the bleakest conversations we have ever recorded. In this wide-ranging interview, he argues that the fighting now spreading across the Middle East, Ukraine, South Asia and the Western Hemisphere is no longer a set of separate regional wars, but a single, loosely linked global conflict - the first of its kind in the nuclear age. Sachs makes the case that the post-1945 security architecture is not merely failing, but being deliberately dismantled: the UN Charter's core prohibition on the use and threat of force (Article 2, paragraph 4) treated as an inconvenience, arms control agreements abandoned, and the world's most powerful state ranking - by his own research team's index - as the least UN-aligned of all 193 member states. He also delivers a scathing verdict on Europe: a project born to prevent a third world war that has, in his view, collapsed into strategic vassalage, led by the weakest generation of leadership in living memory. Whether you agree with him or not, this is a serious, historically grounded argument about how great powers talk themselves into catastrophe."

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