Yanis Varoufakis: It's mad to think Ukraine can win
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers
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The Opposition to a Big Power Deal
I have no doubt that if there is such an agreement, once there is peace and once there is a cessation of conflict, then there can be a referendum. At best, a non-agreement would freeze that conflict into a large-scale version of Cyprus. Do the people of Ukraine want that? I don't think so. The alternative is an ongoing conflict for the next 10 years, and Afghanistan, in the periphery of Europe, that poisons politics across Europe. You know what? My own country would not exist. If we didn't have such an arrangement back in the late 1820s, because we were under the Ottomans in 400-500 years, we had our own
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