M25 members in Russia are in jail, they are actively trying to work against Putin. They suffer from the sanctions, whereas Putin is not suffering that much from the sanctions. So my emphasis is not going to be placed on the inefficiency of sanctions, because I am prepared to accept that even if they're inefficient," he says.
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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