Ukrainian President Zelensky was elected on a platform for making peace with Moscow. He failed in doing this to a very large extent, writes CNN's John Sutter. But he has done something else as well: embraced the neutrality solution, says Sutter. The U.S. needs to back him up and give him the backing he needs during his negotiations with Putin, said Sutter.
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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