The most pertinent criticism that I received was that I was Westplaining. It was like, who are you to tell us what's good for us? Why are you criticizing NATO's expansion? The majority of people in Poland, for instance, wanted to be part of NATO. But off, telling us that we shouldn't bepart of NATO is condescending.
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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