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
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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