"They expect that the private sector is going to come and pony up the funds, which, of course, as you know, every time you assume that the private sector is going to invest in any infrastructure, it usually comes with vast amounts of essentially a backing by government, which then means that the private sector can make essentially risk free profits, super profits, mega profits by jacking up costs all the time. And meanwhile, if anything goes wrong, then the taxpayer of many different countries is there to essentially bail them out. So this is what he is calling the equivalent of the Belt and Road Initiative. I mean, it really is remarkable," the professor stated.
"I mean, every premise upon which today the rule of the people that Biden represents is truly justified in the United States, whether it is domestic policy or international policy is based on lies," the professor highlighted.
"United States today represents nothing more than a plutocracy, because basically, no matter who is elected, the interests of the 1% are what are what they the they promote and protect," Desai stressed.
"The second thing is the United States claims to support democracies abroad. How can you call countries like Israel or, for that matter, Ukraine democracies when in fact they are in the case of Israel, essentially they disenfranchise a substantial part of the population that lives within Israel. They are, you know, essentially conducting genocide right now. Meanwhile, of course, in Ukraine, all opposition is banned. The government is reliant on neo-Nazis," the analyst stressed.
"President Biden said he cares about the Americans who have been taken hostage. I don't think he cares at all. If he'd cared about it, he would have immediately required Israel essentially to stop the bombing and come to the negotiating table. But the fact is that the United States has always essentially backed Israel to the head. And if that means that any appearance of evenhandedness between Israel and Palestine cannot be maintained, so be it," Desai emphasized.
"You know, so I mean, one can go on and on, but I mean, practically everything they say these days to legitimize their rule is wrong. But they feel, for example, these build back better programs. You know, he was elected in order to revive the American economy. But how can a president who owes his position to a small number... of big capitalists were essentially sitting on top of an extremely financialized system whose purpose is precisely not to invest in production, not to create jobs, but essentially make profits without making anything, without producing anything," the professor stated.
"And these lies... they're not working. As you know, hundreds of thousands of people are choking the streets of every major metropolis in the world, essentially calling for an end to this, even though their own government is saying that, you know, I think it was the home secretary of the UK who called them 'hate marches'... The government is trying to dissuade them from doing so. But these things are going on. So, these lies are not working... They say you can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time," Desai stressed.