I don't know about their recent comments on Iran/Israel/US, but these two certainly participated in distributing pro-Kremlin propaganda about Russia/Ukraine conflict:
>Sachs has suggested that the U.S. was responsible for the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipeline. In February 2023, he was invited by the Russian government to address the United Nations Security Council about the topic.
>They willingly appear on the programs of Russia’s most odious state propagandist, Vladimir Solovyov ... Mr. Sachs has made three appearances on Mr. Solovyov’s programs since November.
>In John Mearsheimer's 2023 book How States Think, the preface acknowledges him receiving a small financial support from Valdai in conjunction with Best Book award for his 2019 book The Great Delusion.
The financial support point seems like it could have some legs. The other ones aren't terribly convincing. "They went on the bad guys show" or "they said the same things the bad guys say" isn't all that compelling to me.
I don't see how any of it rises up to "lol they've been completely debunked"
As someone who has no dog in the Russia/Ukraine fight (other than my tax dollars), I never liked how if one side said the sky was blue and you entertained the idea, suddenly you love the enemy, and you're parroting their talking points. Nevermind that neither of them are my friend.
Anyway I linked that for "he was invited by the Russian government to address the United Nations Security Council" bit to show he's aligned with Russian state views on the topic.
>"They went on the bad guys show"
The thing is that people who disagree with Russian state are not invited on that show.
>Looks like we have a race condition that someone triggered by using a script to rapidly upvote and then unvote the submission. I'm not sure whether to be grateful or pissed. Perhaps I'll settle on grateful once I've fixed it.
>In the meantime, please don't anybody else do this!
>His name has been a burden, at least in some ways. He came close to becoming a Conservative parliamentary candidate in 2017, but his candidacy was axed by a party fearful of association with his grandfather Sir Oswald Mosley, the leader of the British Union of Fascists in the 1930s.
I folllowed him on YouTube for a while until he presented one of those new meta analysis on cholesterol (half a year ago maybe?) studies in a way that was highly uncritical. He forgot to mention that the meta analysis mentioned the Minnesota coronary experiment, which is a pretty blatant omission.
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