_A recent, comprehensive social-media interview has provided an acute reminder of how hard it now is to imagine certain flagship, Western current affairs programs drowning their cherished war-drums in a lead weighted bag and applying themselves to investigating pivotal geopolitical challenges with intelligent thoroughness _(as Four Corners can still manage (see:_ Inside Iran: The proxy war on the brink of erupting | Four Corners).

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The Tucker Carlson Show has just uploaded a remarkable, extended interview where the eponymous host speaks with Professor Jeffrey Sachs. It is entitled: “Trump’s Plan to Stop WWIII, CIA Coups, and Warning of the Next Financial Crisis” - view the interview below.

The show runs for well over two hours and covers: America’s succession of failed, multi-trillion-dollar wars; the gross, wilful provocations dating back 30 years which have led to the war in Ukraine; the compounding failure of American leadership; and much more.

Sachs, at one point, praises the advanced state of certain infrastructure in Italy (compared to the US) only to be told that it hardly compares to that in Norway and Sweden, which, today, both look enviously at Chinese levels of infrastructure development.

The program is penetrating and highly watchable. If time is tight, scan-watching works well, too.