Why should an outgoing president be allowed to start a World War?

Judge Napolitano asked Professor Jeffrey Sachs what he thought about Joe Biden giving Ukraine permission to launch American long range missiles into the heart of Russia. Sachs responded:

“I find this action shockingly reckless and irresponsible. It is reckless and irresponsible on its own merits because this very decision went the other way just a couple of weeks ago.

But it’s also especially shocking for a lame duck, not even lame duck, a dead in the water duck administration, that has been repudiated, for putting the world at risk this way.

It’s disgusting is what it is.

It also shows the profound flaws of our political system. That one person, ostensibly, we don’t even know if it’s him anymore because he may not even be responsible for this, but in the name of one person, without public debate, on a existential issue, on a decision that was explained to us just a couple of weeks ago, that the Pentagon rejected this proposal, it went ahead.

No debate, no discussion, no deliberation, no explanation, no word to the American people.

It’s absolutely extraordinary.

It shows the breakdown of the American political system. It shows the profound recklessness, and irresponsibility of the Biden administration. I think it makes anyone watching this breath a sigh of relief that this administration is not continuing.

-Jeffrey Sachs, American economist and public policy analyst