It seems like the people who consider themselves liberals, high-status centrist, erstwhile technocrats have somehow become radicalised. I remember when the United States were about to invade Iraq the second time under George W,. Christopher Hitchens, a man that I admired all my life, became a liberal imperialist. It's not the first time. If you think of the early 1960s, JFK, who initially showed the degree of enthusiasm for the Vietnam War, for taking over the pursuit of a war within Vietnam from the French. And you know what? I do fear that it's not just some liberal imperialist or liberal, liberal,warmonkers, but supporters of victory, of war until
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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