There's talk of really escalating the amount of military hardware being sent to support the Ukraine war effort. "I'm not going to criticize the West for sending weapons to the Ukrainian resistors," he says. Once we sue for peace, there's no point anymore if there is an agreement for further escalation of armaments,. But that should be part of the peace deal."
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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