VIJAY PRASHAD New Delhi On the first day of the Munich conference, French President Emmanuel Macron said he was "shocked by how much credibility we are losing in the Global South." The "we" in Macron's statement were the Western states, led by the United States. Whether fed up with pressure from the West or seeing economic opportunities in their relationship with Russia, more and more countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America have avoided pressure from Washington to cut ties with Moscow.

AMY GOODMAN AND JUAN GONZÁLEZ In this interview, Seymour Hersh talks about how the US decision to bomb oil pipelines served to secure the support of the allies in the war in Ukraine when some of them doubted. He says that this took away the option for Germany to reopen the gas pipeline and withdraw its support for kyiv in the conflict if things went wrong. The veteran and award-winning journalist highlights that Biden told Europe: "you are secondary" and considers that the political consequences for the United States will be "enormous" and will undermine NATO.

JEFFREY D. SACHS The greatest enemy of economic development is war. If the world falls further into global conflict, our economic hopes and our very survival could go up in flames. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has moved the hands of the Doomsday Clock to just 90 seconds to midnight.