I think that, you know, it's what happens when war begins. We lose our head, and war-mongering becomes cool and mainstream. I have no doubt that there are cool heads around Europe who are despairing. This is why it's important that we band together to bring a radical moverationality back to the debate. How can we stop people from dying? Because if they continue,. the ones who put the theorizing of Ukraine in the U.K. above the opportunity of Ukraine to prosper as a Western democracy - inside the EU and outside of NATO.
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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