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Yanis Varoufakis: It's mad to think Ukraine can win
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers
English - April 05, 2022 16:12 - 38 minutes - 850 MBNews Science coronavirus unherd science immunity sweden culture blm interviews pandemic freddie sayers Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Commentators on the war in Ukraine seem to have come to a consensus: public figures have a moral responsibility not to challenge anything other than the Russian narrative.
This rejection of balance in favour of propaganda poses a problem for political thinkers like Yanis Varoufakis, who has been accused of 'Westsplaining' and being a Putin apologist in the last week alone.
To give this controversial conversation a chance, Varoufakis joined Freddie Sayers for a wide-ranging discussion about Western pressure on Russia and finding a space for debate in what feels like a binary moment.
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