Janis Verafakis: Don't antagonize anybody these days. Maintain your cool, support the Ukrainian resistance against Putin's armies. Do not succumb to the sirens of militarism and perpetual war. Always keep your eye on the trophy - a neutral democratic Ukraine that we all help get back up on its feet.
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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