Dangers of U.S. Expansionism with Jeffrey Sachs

We welcome Professor Jeffrey Saxs . He is the director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University . Jeffrey, great to see you. . Thank you very much. Good to be with you . Jeffrey, in his first year of the second term, uh, President Trump has pursued a very aggressive foreign policy . In fact, I think it might be more apt to call it a war policy rather than a foreign policy. But it has included attacks on sovereign nations, the arming of an ally, Israel , which is committing what a UN panel says is a genocide in Gaza . There have been threats against sovereign territory belonging to allies . We saw the seizure of a foreign leader, Nicholas Maduru , the seizure of oil tankers as well . Uh, President Trump says this is all about United States national security . How do you see it? ? Nothing that has been done has improved uh US national security . That's for sure . We are less secure today than we were certainly when Trump's second term . And in fact, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists just unveiled uh the uh updated doomsday clock which measures worldwide insecurity . They moved the second hand of the clock 4 seconds towards midnight saying that we are now as a world only 85 seconds to nuclear Armageddon . Essentially they said the world has become a lot more dangerous during the past year . I think we have to say that this is the case . The United States bombed seven countries by one reliable count . Trump threatens countries every day . He's threatening a war, renewed, expanded war in the Middle East with what could be imminently uh an attack on Iran since there's a major uh carrier task force just that Trump is