{"id":58972,"date":"2026-04-07T14:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T18:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=58972"},"modified":"2026-04-07T14:37:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T18:37:39","slug":"cowards-betrayers-where-the-hell-is-russia-china-and-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=58972","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b>COWARDS &#038; BETRAYERS: <i>Where the hell is Russia, China and India?!?!?!<\/i><\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58981\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-07-at-2.35.27-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"522\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-07-at-2.35.27-PM.png 522w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-07-at-2.35.27-PM-286x300.png 286w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>India, Russia, and China are the only powers that can combine to stop the US-Israeli war on Iran, leading American academic Prof. Jeffrey Sachs has said.<\/p>\n<p>The Middle East conflict has to be stopped by\u00a0<em>\u201cgrown-ups,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he told Afshin Rattansi on the New Order program aired on RT.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThere are only three grown-ups in this world right now to stop this, and they should stop this together,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Sachs, the director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, said.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cPrime Minister [Narendra] Modi, President Xi Jinping, and President Vladimir Putin. They are the leaders of the other three superpowers of the world,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he added.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"X Post\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=RT_com&amp;dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=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%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=2040705261548257508&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rt.com%2Findia%2F637423-only-india-china-and-russia%2F&amp;sessionId=1390a249235d8cb1bcbc9106278603ee587738ef&amp;siteScreenName=RT_com&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"2040705261548257508\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>He said the leaders of these countries have a stake in the world not imploding.<\/p>\n<p>Sachs also said that part of Israel\u2019s political leadership is in a\u00a0<em>\u201c6th-century BC\u201d<\/em>\u00a0mentality.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cMy view is that the only ones who can do this are the BRICS,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he said when asked about Pakistan\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/636005-pakistan-could-host-us-iran\/\">reported<\/a>\u00a0attempt to broker peace.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cOne should not be a friend of [Israeli Prime Minister] Benjamin Netanyahu, right now. India, as a great country and a superpower, should not be aligning with Israel, which has just committed a genocide in Gaza\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Sachs added.<em><br \/>\n\u201cThis is not a friendship, a strategic alliance, or a partnership,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he said, referring to India\u2019s ties with Israel.\u00a0<em>\u201cThis is not in India\u2019s interests.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sachs said India has the stature to say no to what he termed as\u00a0<em>\u201cAmerican delusions,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0adding,\u00a0<em>\u201cBut I am suggesting that India do this together with Russia and China, with Brazil, with other BRICS countries.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sachs cited India\u2019s BRICS presidency as the main reason it is a candidate to broker peace.\u00a0<em>\u201cSecond, it isn\u2019t pleasant dealing with Donald Trump\u2026 so it is better to do it together with partners.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He said India\u2019s ties with Iran also go back a long way, making it an ideal mediator.<\/p>\n<p>Sachs described Western countries as\u00a0<em>\u201cowned and operated\u201d<\/em>\u00a0by the US, and said India should not repeat the line of these\u00a0<em>\u201cvassal states.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>____<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/india\/637423-only-india-china-and-russia\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/india\/637423-only-india-china-and-russia\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58972"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58983,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58972\/revisions\/58983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}