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Yanis Varoufakis: The West Is "Playing with Fire" If It Pushes Regime Change in Nuclear-Armed Russia 

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A month after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, more than 3.6 million Ukrainians have left the country as refugees, and the war risks becoming "an Afghanistan-like quagmire," warns Greek lawmaker Yanis Varoufakis, founder of the Progressive International with U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders. He says the West's sweeping sanctions on Russia and bottomless military aid to Ukraine risk escalating the conflict and foreclosing chances of a peaceful resolution. "What is exactly the aim? Is it regime change in Russia?" asks Varoufakis. "Well, whenever the United States tried regime change, it didn't turn out very well and has never been tried with a nuclear power. This is like playing with fire."
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Комментарии : 8 тыс.   
@riazmkhan
@riazmkhan 2 года назад
Where were the sanctions against America after Iraq and Libya? And for aiding and abetting the war in Yemen?
@tedhernandez2394
@tedhernandez2394 2 года назад
Do you support terrorism? Do you get a buzz when you see innocents get killed by bombs being planted in public places? Iraq, Iran, Libya, Yemen, etc....were the staging places for the exporting of terrorism. You know that....but you want to deflect.
@riazmkhan
@riazmkhan 2 года назад
@@tedhernandez2394 It’s an old talking point wheeled out each time there are discussions about the other side. “Do you support terrorism.” And don’t make this personal. Keep to the facts, it helps with thoughtful and impartial analysis. Does America support terrorism? It supported ISIS in Syria, Pinochet in Chile, Noriega in Panama, the Taliban and Bin Laden in Afghanistan, Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, Saddam against the Iranians, the Stasi in Iran, Carlos Castillo Armas in Guatemala. The CIA’s involvement in Nicaragua’s Contra drug cartels…we know many thousands of innocents, including reporters, have been killed in the so called ‘war on drugs.’ The list is endless…Drone strikes have killed more innocent civilians than any number of crude IEDs devised by religious and political zealots. The numbers of civilian killed in various adventures aided an abetted by America runs into the millions. Half a million children estimated to have died as a consequence of American involvement in Iraq alone. Around 626 massacres and over 32,000 people killed in Guatemala in what’s referred to as the Mayan holocaust. “200,000 children had lost at least one parent in the war and that between 45,000 and 60,000 adult Guatemalans were killed between 1980 and 1985….US training of the officer corps in counterinsurgency techniques ‘had a significant bearing on human rights violations during the armed confrontation’ but that the US was not directly responsible for any genocidal acts.” So let’s refrain from the “do you get a buzz when you see innocents get killed” rhetoric. Don’t take my word for it, a little research will do. And when you do, please check the references to ensure they are credible sources. One place to look would be documents disclosed on the CIA website. Happy to provide references if you need them.
@ahmedakhan1
@ahmedakhan1 2 года назад
@@tedhernandez2394 The planning for 9/11 took place in Hamburg but the US did not attack Germany because the German government was not complicit. Neither was that the case for Afghanistan and yet the US illegally invaded Afghanistan Certainly a much more valid reason then the fake WMDs of Iraq!
@domesticatedwolverine4152
@domesticatedwolverine4152 2 года назад
@@riazmkhan you left the Yankee speechless
@thegalaxylab
@thegalaxylab 2 года назад
@@tedhernandez2394 do you support American terrorism? American terrorism has murdered over 3 million civilians since 1991. If you condemn terrorism, do you also condemn American terrorism?
@denisbaribeau509
@denisbaribeau509 2 года назад
"It's no longer possible for the US to expect the whole World to dance to their tune" This is Not Rocket Science .
@clarkhull7546
@clarkhull7546 2 года назад
Stressed is just desserts spelled backwards
@johannuys7914
@johannuys7914 2 года назад
They will go down trying to force that dance down the throats of the rest of us.
@bproducer
@bproducer 2 года назад
What should the US have done, perhaps nothing?
@denisbaribeau509
@denisbaribeau509 2 года назад
@@bproducer The USA should have stuck to all Agreements made 30 years ago ,20 years ago ,how about 10 years ago maybe 8 . What do you think .Cheer
@bproducer
@bproducer 2 года назад
@@denisbaribeau509 please explain these agreements with the U.S. for a person who isn’t a foreign historian
@grahamlamb3972
@grahamlamb3972 2 года назад
Finally a voice of reason unafraid to contradict the crowd
@gi.l.5043
@gi.l.5043 2 года назад
In Germany, Sahra Wagenknecht says the same thing. Nobody will listen to her.
@draganabuha3928
@draganabuha3928 2 года назад
He said nothing.
@josipemmer6780
@josipemmer6780 2 года назад
​@@gi.l.5043 She speaks very well argued, on the contrary as the leading politicians. No selfish.
@josipemmer6780
@josipemmer6780 2 года назад
@@draganabuha3928 Biden?
@josipemmer6780
@josipemmer6780 2 года назад
@@draganabuha3928 It's no longer possible for the US to expect the whole World to dance to their tune" This is Not Rocket Science .
@mauricioramirez9744
@mauricioramirez9744 2 года назад
A sound and honest analogy. The way things are going, it seems now we've been living on borrowed time the past few decades. We are on a slippery slope of our own destruction. A catalyst crisis.
@ntal5859
@ntal5859 2 года назад
Not our own destruction its the corrupt politicians that start ALL WARS, just remember throughout history every war was because some one upset a political leader, and yet the people are drawn into fight them... WAKE UP SEND THE POLITICANS TO THE FRONT BY FORCE.
@bazb2591
@bazb2591 2 года назад
And all because of the decisions and corruption of the same handful of people (on global terms) making life suck for the masses.
@robertkoowalski1014
@robertkoowalski1014 2 года назад
Yes, very “honest” indeed, especially in regard to Cuban crisis. How’s about his entire argumentation is twisted, corrupted, it’s nothing more than a LIE. Let’s expose it. Shall we? Cuban Missile Crisis was never about Cuba choosing its military alliance or political or ideological orientation (as in Ukraine, matter of fact Cuba IS communist country till this very day, and Soviet troops were stationed there till 1991, 30 years AFTER Cuban crisis). Since the beginning, it was always all about Soviets placing there their nuclear weapons, capable of reaching 75% of US territory (including Washington DC) with less than 5 minutes warning. In 60-ties, when dominant method of nuclear strike were still bombers, ability to strike with such a short warning, was considered inviting opportunity for a first strike. If attacker could strike at Command and Control in such a short time, they would not be able to issue in time retaliation order, he could (possibly) hope he can annihilate enemy unpunished. In todays world, even countries still hold to old nuclear arms agreements (keeping weapons at distance - as it was believed, short time for response needed increases possibility of accidental start of nuclear exchange), entire problem is academic. In age of hypersonic weapons, nuclear submarines and stealth, no short distance or even hypersonic speed is needed anymore to facilitate zero warning attack (stealth ((or possibly submarine born strike)) ALONE is enough). Retaliation policies of all major nuclear states were long adapted, to facilitate this new reality and prevent possibility of unpunished first strike. Ukraine does not seek nuclear weapons on its territory. Vladimir Putin did not attacked Ukraine because there were nukes there (matter of fact there are no ANY nuclear weapons in ANY NATO country which joined after 1991). Looking for resemblance between Ukrainian crisis and Cuban Missiles Crisis? Fine! If anything, let’s, SAME as during Cuban Missiles Crisis, allow Ukraine to NATO, guarantee it will never, ever be invaded (as president Kennedy did in regard to Cuba). On top, for promise of not placing nukes in Ukraine, let’s remove nukes from Belarus (similarly as president Kennedy removed Atlas missiles from Turkey, during Cuban crisis). Claim that US would not allow Russia’s ally at its border IS A LIE. Cuba (and even Venezuela) ARE allies of the Russia. Russian troops stationed on Cuba for decades! As JM twists facts to facilitate its narrative, quite “coincidently” Vladimir Putin continue to quotes the very same corrupted rhetoric, over and over again, comparing Ukraine and US stand to Cuban crisis. The real pearls of his rhetorics are however references to breaking international law, while he totally forgets to even mention, Budapest Memorandum, where Russia agreed to,… guarantees Ukraine’s sovereignty and independence for giving away nukes from their territory (would Ukraine not, it would be today third biggest nuclear power in the world). John Mearsheimer (JM) claims proudly he is “eighteen century man” than quotes US policies from 18th century. I mean: really??? Does this mean he ALSO believes: woman have no mental capacity to do anything other but cook, slavery should be legal, homosexuality is criminal, mental diseases are not diseases but evil spirits, there are monsters living in seas and overseas, clitoral orgasm is sign of insanity, rain follows the plow (land which has agriculture is more likely to get rain), poop cures everything - just few examples I was able to dig. I mean, why stop on 18th century and not go further? In 15th century it was common to cut tongue and pluck eyes of king of enemy army who lost war and was caught. This could very well justify war crimes in Ukraine today. After all, Anglo Saxons in England did same and worse,…in 15th century.
@joescott8877
@joescott8877 2 года назад
So true. So frustrating. So sad.
@ms9771
@ms9771 2 года назад
Biden give future savings of our children to be wasted in the war of Ukraine by sending 35 billion to Ukraine war, when he said have no money for a student loan, what kind of members are in US congress stand beside of him, not the American people
@RandleBeckford
@RandleBeckford 2 года назад
War is always a good distraction for a failing economy and gives the politicians someone to blame when things get worse. And we need to acknowledge that our politicians and businessmen are also oligarchs whose first priority is to benefit themselves.
@clarkhull7546
@clarkhull7546 2 года назад
Fascinating!!
@ricardo_cn
@ricardo_cn 2 года назад
Exactly!
@G4MBIT
@G4MBIT 2 года назад
It’s no coincident that majority of the leaders in the major NATO nations have become significantly unpopular in their own countries. They are clearly using this as an opportunity to win over people.
@bennytorres384
@bennytorres384 2 года назад
The US will also reap benefits of having it's economic competitors throughout Europe and Asia annihilate themselves like they did during and post both World Wars. That way, the US can become wealthy again through new versions of the old Marshall Plan that relies upon a decades long rebuilding of the rest of the industrialized world
@drock1974life
@drock1974life 2 года назад
ya think? that's exactly why Putin started this war.
@assouankoffi9456
@assouankoffi9456 2 года назад
Putin has been asking for that in the past eight (8)years that he wanted Ukraine to be a neutral country but the West said no. This is the basis for the war today.
@JavierFernandez01
@JavierFernandez01 2 года назад
Putin wanted Ukraine. Period. Ukraine said no.
@scampbell8136
@scampbell8136 2 года назад
NATO was not a treat to Russia in any way , Putin only cares about his own regime not the Russian people. Ukraine does not want to be under the thumb of a Russian dictator.
@johnsonolajide4647
@johnsonolajide4647 2 года назад
Very well said 👍👌👍💯
@johannuys7914
@johannuys7914 2 года назад
@@JavierFernandez01 America took Ukraine in 2014. It's just Putin's turn now.
@JavierFernandez01
@JavierFernandez01 2 года назад
@@johannuys7914 Ukraine wants us there. Not putin. Putin is a lying thief and he should give back the super bowl ring he stole as a start.
@UGPepe
@UGPepe 2 года назад
so he admits that ukraine's neutrality is a tiny tiny price to pay for ending the war, but what he doesn't say is that that price could've been paid to avoid the war altogether
@UGPepe
@UGPepe 2 года назад
North Korea Is Best Korea you must not have youtube where you live
@georgeandrews9177
@georgeandrews9177 2 года назад
I think most of us who know Ukraine history, were amazed Biden instigated this situation (along with other US Presidents, starting with Clinton). He gave Ukraine the impression the US would support them, and then told Zelenskyy there would be no EU, NATO, or American troops to support them. Then the US propaganda machine started and Americans have no idea how Putin has been very reserved and patient while The United States continued to sanction Russian peoples and devastate Crimea. Putin finally had had enough! The only reason US wants Putin to be charged with war crimes, is because the US NEVER signed the treaty allowing the US to be charged with any war crimes even though they have invaded, deviated countries, bombed indiscriminately, killed and displaced millions of women and children. But not having signed the 'world treaty' the AMERICANS sit back smuggle. The US want to just grind Russia out of existance, even if it kills Ukraine people and their economy for the next 50 years.
@hopefortheworld5296
@hopefortheworld5296 2 года назад
exactly
@chrischestarrow9031
@chrischestarrow9031 2 года назад
Because you believe this? When Putin repeats again and again that Ukraine should not exist as a country and it is time for it be part of Russia again? Plus they wanted to have allies because they were scared of being invaded by Russia. Are you saying this could never have happened?
@object85
@object85 2 года назад
well that's what Vladimir Putin wanted before the war started was for the ukrainians or Ukraine to go neutral he did not want NATO expansion
@margueriteduras1657
@margueriteduras1657 2 года назад
Wonderful: "not only the Russian Oligarchs, but all the world's Oligarchs, the Russian, the American, the Greek, etc."
@chenren6977
@chenren6977 2 года назад
It is very disturbing to learn the fact, European never had sovereignty in front of US
@ms9771
@ms9771 2 года назад
EU lost their independant long time ago, special during war world 2, when the American people had to be blindfolled, not to see the real EU and the rest of the world
@joecaragoog
@joecaragoog 2 года назад
If Putin is a war criminal, What is the US? Iraq, afghanistan, Libyia, yemen, somalia, etc.....
@farzana6676
@farzana6676 2 года назад
Haha a list of countries full of Islamist terror networks & terror groups.
@yurigansmith
@yurigansmith 2 года назад
The plight of people "who don't look like us" is deemed "whataboutism" these days. We're supposed to be outraged and compassionate, if it's happening to Europeans, we're supposed to not even mention it, if it pertains to those others.
@crusader2.0_loading89
@crusader2.0_loading89 2 года назад
@@farzana6676 gee, I wonder why?
@d.k.9666
@d.k.9666 2 года назад
@@farzana6676 The U.S funded & supplied weapons to ISIS hoping they would succeed in overthrowing the Syrian government. The U.S are no better than the terrorists they supported & the blood of everyone killed by ISIS is also on their hands
@eEmm1
@eEmm1 2 года назад
@@farzana6676 USA created those Islamist terrorists to overthrow their governments.
@amanonerth7592
@amanonerth7592 2 года назад
Always impressed me this man. An honest voice of reason in the dishonest and unreasonable theatre of geo-politik.
@777palena
@777palena 2 года назад
Thanks! Yanis we need a sane conversation today.
@igweogba6774
@igweogba6774 2 года назад
One of the most avoidable wars in history
@joackimkanengoni9480
@joackimkanengoni9480 2 года назад
i do not understand how one should compromise the ownership of his house to a bully....if you do it you are prolonging a war in that future generations will reclaim through bloodshed what was given away by a timid parent......this is a fact of life....here in africa our forefathers were beaten to guns by colonizers but 100 years down the line people demanded back to them what was annexed from their timid forefathers....anyway diplomacy only can work for some time but people see its flaws over time......proudly zimbabwean
@igweogba6774
@igweogba6774 2 года назад
@@joackimkanengoni9480 ​ Sometimes in life you need to buy time. The bully in question has 6000 nuclear bombs and 4 times the size of your population. Not to mention most of your infrastructure will be blown to rubble while your strongest warriors are pulverized into meat paste. If our ancestors in Africa chose to fight to the death against the British and the French, that would have been the end for them. Look at the native Americans or the Aborigines in Australia, how many are left today? Buying time led to the generation that fought for independence and won. The "timid" ancestors were wiser than you think.
@kwamestanciel2513
@kwamestanciel2513 2 года назад
@@joackimkanengoni9480 Well then you need to think about if you (America) are prepared to date a woman (ukraine) who has a crazy ex husband (Russia) with a history of domestic violence, and a large cache of weapons. Ukraine can choose sides all it wants but it is bringing lots of baggage.
@gaguilera146
@gaguilera146 2 года назад
I need I remind you that radicalized Islam is spreading through Africa causing no end of harm just as it has done in the middle east. So two states sponsored fascism as found in today's Russia seeks to infect the Ukraine and reconstituted itself in the European body. We don't have the luxury of time. To stem this infection, we need a quick and strong antidote weapons of war, intelligence, money, not this talk of peace and time which will only permit the body to be overrun
@guywithknife
@guywithknife 2 года назад
@@igweogba6774 so the message you want to say is "if you have nukes, we'll roll over and give you whatever you want", because if you let putin achieve his goals through the threat of nukes, he will take whatever he wants, because who will stop him? He has nukes, after all. Obviously we don't want him to use nukes, but at the same time, rolling over due to the threat of nukes isn't going to lead to a good outcome either. The thing is that Oleksiy Arestovych (adviser to Zelensky) predicted the war over two years ago and its played out exactly as he said. I've long been a fan of Varoufakis, but I think he's wrong here because for what he's saying to work, putin needs to be acting rationally, which he has not been doing, and as soon as his plans didn't go how he wanted, he started threatening nukes. He clearly doesn't care what the costs are, he has shown he doesn't care for his soldiers lives and since nukes are a death sentence to russian people too, he clearly doesn't care about them either. I don' believe he will care for a consolation prize.
@ElkoJohn
@ElkoJohn 2 года назад
If the U.S. did not allow Soviet missiles in Cuba (1962), why should Russia allow U.S. missiles in Ukraine (2022)?
@Vivungisport
@Vivungisport 2 года назад
Lying media doesn't wanna remind us about this fact.
@jtcarroll123
@jtcarroll123 2 года назад
We don't need media to remind us. Anyone with an education will remember that. The Ukrainians were not going to receive nuclear weapons. Nor did Poland, Romania, or other NATO nations.
@PjotrII
@PjotrII 2 года назад
The Soviet missiles were nuclear missiles! There are no US missiles in Ukraine, nor has there been any agreement to send such there! The only thing there is, is small defensive Javelin type missiles to defend against tanks. So let´s stay on the facts!
@indy1869
@indy1869 2 года назад
@@PjotrII you are so naive 🤣🤣
@PjotrII
@PjotrII 2 года назад
@@indy1869 One doesn´t become what another says without facts!
@freemanbako452
@freemanbako452 2 года назад
Wisdom is profitable to direct... Good thinking, YANIS!!!
@charleskristiansson1296
@charleskristiansson1296 2 года назад
The US does not look good in all of this but then the US is a corporation and not a country.
@martinsmith3550
@martinsmith3550 2 года назад
During Trump ruling, he show what a real super power can do. And every country set him as example and follows. Disregarding whatever the nation has promised and sign to agree and do whatever a nation can do to benefits his own gain.
@krzheph7373
@krzheph7373 2 года назад
"Why stop at the Oligarchs of Russia ? " Great point ,Yes Indeed !
@MrRawnerves
@MrRawnerves 2 года назад
Did you miss what happened in Canada with the trucker's protest? That was a peaceful demonstration and the government use its power to call it a terrorist insurrection which gave them the legal power ( in their minds ) to crush it by all means necessary. People who donated money to the trucker's, bank accounts were ceased by the government. It is a violation of the rules of law. That is the kind of thing that China or Cuba would do. Not a western nation. If they went after oligarchs the government would not stop - when the moment is right - to come after you and me under some trumped-up BS. That is the danger of those measures. You want to put sanctions on Russia as a government? Go right ahead. But to sanction athletes, businesses, private citizens' accounts ( so-called oligarchs ) is way above common law principles. Soon we will see those tactics used on us. We can not standby and tolerate the government to do that to one group because before you know it, WE could easily be that group at the whims of the government. Can't you see that?
@williamrose2506
@williamrose2506 2 года назад
Because Russia is attacking Ukraine and its people. The issue is Russia and Ukraine.
@MrRawnerves
@MrRawnerves 2 года назад
@@williamrose2506 Let's go down memory lane. The U.S invader Granada 1983, did the world put sanctions on the U.S. For that? Panama 1989, Oh, no sanctions either. Iraq 1991, Somalia 1993, Yugoslavia 1997, Afghanistan 2001, Iraq again 2003. That's without counting the countries we have bombed like Siria, Libya, Somalia, Egypt, Yemen, you get the picture. It's the moral inconsistencies that I can't stand. People such as yourself have no moral compass to see wrong in one group but to find it justifiable when they do it. The Pentagon released a report called the Airpower Summary, the U.S has dropped 336,000 bombs in more than 10 different countries around the world in the last 20 years. We bomb Afghanistan not even two months ago, on the wrong target by mistake. Killed a bunched of innocent people. Where was the world outrage? You see as a realist that is a double standard. If you claim to be for a morally righteous stance, ( not invading or bombing other countries ) then you wouldn't tolerate Putin invading Ukraine and neither for the United States to do the same. That's why people hate us all around the world because we are the bully. Medling in other people's business while our own country is disintegrating from within with this CRT and woke agendas. People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
@archisigma
@archisigma 2 года назад
@@williamrose2506 when the USA was attacked Iraq Afghanistan ..almost half of the planet... why Americans oligarchs didn't being sanctioned? why the American presidents weren't killers?! Now Saudi Arabia is bombing Yemen ... why they don't be sanctioned by "the west"? East Cyprus is still occupied by Turkey why they don't do anything??? ....not to mention Gaza...... selective sensitivity is masked hypocrisy
@scroopynooperz9051
@scroopynooperz9051 2 года назад
@@williamrose2506 what about the oligarchs that lied the US people into attacking Iraq? Costing the lives of 100s of thousands of civilians and losing the American taxpayer trillions in a useless war based on false premises that only benefited the war profiteering oligarchs? Yanis is absolutely right. Take those blinkers off
@wunfoe
@wunfoe 2 года назад
"Never bite off more than your can chew." Words of wisdom from an unknown
@prosay
@prosay 2 года назад
Probably someone who died from chocking on their words!
@wunfoe
@wunfoe 2 года назад
@@prosay And that is exactly going to be the conclusion of this war.😎
@godzillamothra5983
@godzillamothra5983 2 года назад
I believe it was a dentist who said that
@wunfoe
@wunfoe 2 года назад
@@godzillamothra5983 yep, when he was ordered to provide the dental records of a slain patient to authorities for identification purposes.😎
@robertwilson214
@robertwilson214 2 года назад
This man is so informed and eloquent.He and Chomsky are about the only 2 people worth listening to these days.
@sunnycriti9809
@sunnycriti9809 2 года назад
Great explanation by Mr. Yanis Varoufakis. He is neutral and does not spare nobody
@untitledmixture1531
@untitledmixture1531 2 года назад
"Why don't we go beyond Russian oligarchs" and his smile in the face. I love it. (They never go beyond Russian oligarchs because other oligarchs are the ones feeding those "politicians")
@gadgetgasspoll2923
@gadgetgasspoll2923 2 года назад
Especially the oligarchs of the industrial military complex
@alexgry4763
@alexgry4763 2 года назад
@@gadgetgasspoll2923 Don't forget uncle Xi from Beijing. He bought all the Greece in one big deal a few years ago.
@Deepdish_123
@Deepdish_123 2 года назад
The United States has to understand that its democracy of backwardness, misery, death and destruction around the world does not work, no country wants its false democracy👍✌😜
@dnickaroo3574
@dnickaroo3574 2 года назад
Biden may bring about regime change in the US.
@alexgry4763
@alexgry4763 2 года назад
@@Deepdish_123 you are fake account run by Putin trolls. 31 suscribers to an account without content. Right
@alainc.ahyuen4562
@alainc.ahyuen4562 2 года назад
Interesting suggestion by Yanis, to extend the treatment towards Russian oligarchs to the oligarchs of other nations, namely Americans etc... Hope this suggestion will not fall in deaf ears.
@Begster
@Begster 2 года назад
Hope Yanis will be around after this statement...
@camelopardalis84
@camelopardalis84 2 года назад
@@Begster He will. It's not the first time he says true and smart things that challenge the status quo in important aspects. The weapon used against him isn't a gun. But instead a conscious decision not to listen to him.
@vallee7966
@vallee7966 2 года назад
@@camelopardalis84 why should anyone listen to him? When he was Mi of Finance, he failed in negotiations to restructure Greeces’ debt. That was his job; couldn’t do it. But now he’s an expert on….. anything?
@camelopardalis84
@camelopardalis84 2 года назад
@@vallee7966 Yes, only ever listen to the winners./s
@evang666
@evang666 2 года назад
@@vallee7966 He was betrayed by Mr Tsipras the prime minister.
@ayindeolaide1725
@ayindeolaide1725 2 года назад
A very sound and apt analysis from Yanis. I believe in the long run Ukrainians will begin to ask why Zelenskyy took this ruinous path. I have no doubt that there is internal silensing of dissents in Ukraine. The truth may not surface now but later.
@ketchup5344
@ketchup5344 2 года назад
This guy makes more sense than any politician ive heard speaking on this matter. Can someone make him the president of America please? We could use him right now.
@romeofabros6870
@romeofabros6870 2 года назад
This all Zelensky's fault! He favored the American interest more than the interest of it's people!
@toddr2265
@toddr2265 2 года назад
Ukrainian people overwhelmingly wanted to be in the EU. The only Ukrainians that wanted to be part of the soviet union again were the ones that Pewtin sent there to cause problems in Donbass.
@tschorsch
@tschorsch 2 года назад
What nonsense. Putin wanted to annex Ukraine; there was nothing Zalenskyy could do to stop Putin's desire for a new Russian empire.
@vicmercd9136
@vicmercd9136 2 года назад
Americans have all dirt of Zelinsky...they are twisting him now to keep fighting.
@knutkatastrophe2722
@knutkatastrophe2722 2 года назад
@@toddr2265 Before the US forced Regime Change in 2014 the majority voted for an russian leaning President. Seems the Maidan Coup was a Big mistake. Now Ukraine is over
@scampbell8136
@scampbell8136 2 года назад
You can only be a Putin bot. Ukraine people do not want a dictator like Putin.
@jesusangelsakakawan4434
@jesusangelsakakawan4434 2 года назад
The best speech and reasonable that I have ever heard listen since this Ukraine-Rusia war start
@molonlave2193
@molonlave2193 2 года назад
Well spoken from my fellow countryman!
@mauvahalsall7029
@mauvahalsall7029 2 года назад
This is bad mind in the worst way. These world powers are very childish. May God help us.?🙏🏻💕😳
@Wilki_J
@Wilki_J 2 года назад
Well said Yanis Varoufakis. We need wise minds more than ever right now. The golden bridge.
@evangiles4403
@evangiles4403 2 года назад
So rather than risk breaking your wrist you let the idiot keep hitting you in the head - Great idea Mr Yanis
@mmoxam6963
@mmoxam6963 2 года назад
Jeremy, Yanis is under the false impression that the US who singlehandedly created the situation in Ukraine wants to end the war.
@annychest718
@annychest718 2 года назад
@@mmoxam6963 How US created this pls?
@rooni8188
@rooni8188 2 года назад
This didn't happen under Trump. But you people thought WW3 will happen lol
@jerrypeukert5732
@jerrypeukert5732 2 года назад
@Hi There More than him, he's just a puppet, as most are
@Konstantinalufcomcastnet
@Konstantinalufcomcastnet 2 года назад
We are from Ukraine and see that West is responsible for what is happening in Ukraine
@michelrodriguez7299
@michelrodriguez7299 2 года назад
Your president is not a hero, he is a sell out who does not care about Ukrainians. This stupid war is not of any interest of Ukrainians. It serves the West who uses Ukraine as a bait to get to Russia. Zelensky wants to spark WW3 by all means.
@conniekeshet
@conniekeshet 2 года назад
Also ukraine is resp. Choose better friends next time.
@rostik6830
@rostik6830 2 года назад
Even now, even after so much bloodshed, the ties between the peoples of Russia and Ukraine are there for all to see. This is difficult enough for ordinary well-meaning people in the West to understand, but utterly impossible for their power-hungry, money-motivated politicians to even begin to grasp. The governments of the USA, its compatriots in the EU (especially Germany and France) and the UK have simply used Ukraine as a cats paw - these outlaws couldnt care a tinkers cuss for their own electorates, let alone the peoples of the Ukraine. Ordinary Ukrainians are far more likely to receive help and compassion from the soldiers of the Russian Army than they are from any disciple or protegee of the West and I hope and pray that once this conflict has reached its inevitable conclusion, the USA will no longer be in the driving seat of global politics and the West will be cold-shouzldered by all those who over the years have had to suffer its political machinations.
@euginity1
@euginity1 2 года назад
@@michelrodriguez7299 you nailed it
@bproducer
@bproducer 2 года назад
@@rostik6830 without the West, Russia would had blown Ukraine off the map by now
@Mustafasediqi
@Mustafasediqi 2 года назад
Agree👍 with your gist wise 👏 big example is Afghanistan. Push between to superpowers, innocent people suffering until Now 🇦🇫✌️
@sheshashah3728
@sheshashah3728 2 года назад
Very pragmatic and visionary analysis is given by this gentleman I fully agreed with Him somehow this bloody war must be stopped by some kind of special high levels heads of states diplomatic meetings solution as He says don’t play with fire 🔥
@wny488
@wny488 2 года назад
Thank you, Yanis for speaking the truth of western hypocrisy and for advocating for peace ✌
@code_red999
@code_red999 2 года назад
Peace rite.. So if your country get invaded by a foreign country what would u do. So if the west just kept quiet n let Putin take what he wants where do u think he gonna stop
@alquemist7532
@alquemist7532 2 года назад
jose gomez, but yanis is still somewhat self censoring himself. he is very quick to accuse putin to committing "war crimes" which he may be right, but he refrained himself from criticizing the west from similar or even more horrendous crimes on even more occasions.
@wny488
@wny488 2 года назад
@@code_red999 I never said keep quiet, you fool. Putin is wrong, and he should be criticized as an imperialist. All I said was that Western Europe and the US should actually set the example, like not illegally invading Iraq, Afghanistan or harming civilians in Yemen. Are you a hypocrite? Go do some research and you'll see what I'm talking about
@wny488
@wny488 2 года назад
@@alquemist7532 He actually does accuse the west, look for other videos
@bearislandthuglife3463
@bearislandthuglife3463 2 года назад
@@code_red999 If an Iraqi did what you are saying to Invading USA in 2003 what would they be called?
@yurigansmith
@yurigansmith 2 года назад
2:15 I guess most ordinary Europeans don't have a clue what people outside the West actually think about the whole situation, in particular many (probably a majority) are not aware that most Global South countries are not willing to join the Western sanctions against Russia. There's this widespread assumption that the rest of the world - except for a couple of rouge states - will always gather behind the West, and there's a remarkable lack of interests, why countries from the Global South would dare to reject the West's attempt to isolate Russia and destroy its economy in order to overthrow its government.
@missp498
@missp498 2 года назад
Thank God and I am from the UK. People are being propagansdised constantly and they are very weak minded. Prefering not to read, think or do anything beyond. Russia bad, West good.
@morbid747
@morbid747 2 года назад
US and EU always claim the world support them in economic sanctions against Russia but the reality is most countries refuse to abide to those sanctions. I did a fact check and found the entire Asian countries except Japan , South Korea and Singapore , all the middle east countries , all the african countries and south american countries did not participate in the sanctions.
@abdulrahmankhatib8595
@abdulrahmankhatib8595 2 года назад
Only about 25% of the world population agreed with the sanctions. And about half of the world population abstained or voted against the un resolution. People from the so cold western world are the minority in global context.
@huiyuanye6918
@huiyuanye6918 2 года назад
If so, the Westerners need to learn.
@abdulrahmankhatib8595
@abdulrahmankhatib8595 2 года назад
@@huiyuanye6918 ofcourse
@hokaheynineteen
@hokaheynineteen 2 года назад
Yanis Varoufakis - one of the few voices that I heard in the last few months that makes sense to me, especially about our American oligarchs.
@Wul-Lop
@Wul-Lop 2 года назад
Your analysis informs & inspires people all over the world 🙏🙏🙏... respect from Thailand...
@SBAtmost
@SBAtmost 2 года назад
Very thoughtful Yanis! We need thinkers and peace makers, instead of war mongers.
@vallee7966
@vallee7966 2 года назад
Negotiations require two or more involved & engaged diplomats. All we’re getting from Putin are lies. It takes two.
@terryallen9546
@terryallen9546 2 года назад
Yes, we do. But first we must rehabilitate war mongers like Madeleine Albright by lowering our flags and saturating the airwaves with sympathetic reasoning for her behavior. In that way, present and future war mongering can be humanized...and the MIC doesn't even need to slow down.
@mountainfrost7095
@mountainfrost7095 2 года назад
Even yanis got it wrong earlier to this crisis and was talking down on Russia but now he realised who is behind all this.
@truthviolatescommunityguid3019
@truthviolatescommunityguid3019 2 года назад
Yes. Finally a person interviewed in media that actually do basic math. I’m so sick of the propaganda they force feed us telling us the whole world is on the side of D.C. /Brussels. Just China & India is 3 billion people. So no, the “whole world” isn’t buying the BS narrative & lies coming from Washington
@truthviolatescommunityguid3019
@truthviolatescommunityguid3019 2 года назад
@@vallee7966 You think you’re getting TRUTH from our so called leaders in Washington???? 🤣🤣🤣🤣😆🤣😆🤣😆😆😆🤣😆🤣😆🤣 Oh wait, they take our money and control our lives with their unjust laws & hypocrisy ☹️☹️😞☹️😞😡🤬☹️😞☹️☹️🤬😡🤬☹️☹️😞😞☹️😞🤬😡🥺☹️😞🥺😣😔🤬🤬😡🤬😞😔😞
@tds187
@tds187 2 года назад
The EU to buy gas from US. Did US mention that to provide and send all it will equate to the gas costing ten times the amount that the EU pay now?? AND the EU need to build the ports and terminals to receive the gas. AND build storage facilities. These are processes that take several years. You cannot just click your fingers and it is done. The EU is being prideful and stupid. Swallow their pride. Transfer the euros to rubles and make the payments. They are the ones going to suffer most of all in this situation. Not the US and definitely not Russia.
@troublingrain3060
@troublingrain3060 2 года назад
EU weakens and passes into the hands of the US
@wtfatc4556
@wtfatc4556 2 года назад
No. Fuck russia and fuck cold.
@antoinettekankindi6807
@antoinettekankindi6807 2 года назад
Excellent point
@dipthongthathongthongthong9691
@dipthongthathongthongthong9691 2 года назад
Europe will be a backwater after this short-sighted maneuver. It continues to hitch its wagon to the US horses. It probably fears US retribution. If it converts to rubbles, that signals weakening of the dollar as global currency. Russia and China are working on a joint currency anyway. If the dollar falls, so does the empire.
@hadriusreznor3247
@hadriusreznor3247 2 года назад
There is some BS going on with Germany and Scholz, almost unbelievable, do they have something “on” him?
@silversurfers7
@silversurfers7 2 года назад
....this man Yanis should be President of Europe! I've watched Yanis on TikTok, a short clip about China. About China not using force in going into other countries, but using “Soft power“ as Yanis mentioned in trading.Yanis is a nature person as I. Btw, I'm half Greek-Cypriot myself.
@michaelcavagnaro8387
@michaelcavagnaro8387 2 года назад
Very intelligent and wise remarks from the Greek guest. Have a whole new perspective on the situation. Hope these ideas can prevail as other results will be catastrophic for our pathetic world.
@bk818
@bk818 2 года назад
after all that has been said by Biden and many members of the US Congress and its administration, and many bad and ugly officials against the Russian people, I doubt that they will ever sit at the same table with Putin. We are armed with weapons and 1,000 security guards armed to the teeth. I think you can only watch honey through the sniper line each other. Because not only Putin and the Russian Federation need to be judged for a military operation. This 200 and more years of hatred will not just end because no one will take their share of responsibility, or Americans because they are too arrogant or Russians because they are too proud. Now that the cards are fairly open, we know everything that happened in Ukraine 10-15 years ago, and now everything has finally come to light, and we know that America has participated in all operations and activities in Ukraine since the first Obama administration, including active participation of Biden Joe and his son Biden Hunt. In addition, the media in the US and the EU have cooked up a lot so far with their pro-Western propaganda and one-sided information, especially the EU and the US. So we cannot blame the Russian Federation for everything. As for Yanis' idea that in addition to the Russian oligarchs, the origin is being investigated, although more or less everything is known, and the confiscated property is distributed equally to everyone else in the world to those who contribute to this property and earn the most. A global revision and a new distribution of resources and wealth around the world would be very welcome. I think neither Russia nor China and the US would have any more interest in wanting like a rooster, who has a bigger one. Instead of supporting each other and allowing the whole world to develop and enable about the same standard of living in all countries, they are fighting for supremacy here, we just don't know what they are fighting for.
@annychest718
@annychest718 2 года назад
putrid has been planning his war for many years..he can't negotiate or deviate from his mission..which is to expand Russia and kill many
@emgaf33
@emgaf33 2 года назад
actually no.. Very Dumb and useless speech
@dsiz9421
@dsiz9421 2 года назад
Sure. Why don’t we just invite other dictators to nuke the crap out of the world and promise them billions of dollars if they stop being naughty. Unfortunately that won’t work.
@markusreynolds7586
@markusreynolds7586 2 года назад
Not wise at all if Putin is a war criminal America is one as well just because Putin is invading a white country don't make him a worse of a man.. in fact he has a better and noble reason then the past United States president.. get FACTS before opening your mind to think..
@som9097
@som9097 2 года назад
Clearer thinking on this tricky situation
@walidbk08
@walidbk08 2 года назад
A voice of wisdom...
@unitedfools3493
@unitedfools3493 2 года назад
What? That's the last thing the US is going to do. That would remove the need for NATO members to spend 2% GDP on US arms annually. The US Secretary of State is a lobbyist for the weapons industry. Work it out.
@blackbeard00
@blackbeard00 2 года назад
Regime change doesn't necessarily mean for the better though. Look at Libya.
@GladysAlicea
@GladysAlicea 2 года назад
Something Yanis failed to mention, but that's Amy's fault. This is the looming disaster over the world, and don't forget the Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, who was on the board of Raytheon before Biden appointed him. He's absolutely the worst choice, for no one can tell me that he's still not profiting in some way, not now, but after he leaves his position. I simply don't trust these choices.
@toddr2265
@toddr2265 2 года назад
Stay focused. *RUSSIA* attacked Ukraine. No one else did. Pewtin is responsible for the new NATO position.
@tschorsch
@tschorsch 2 года назад
@GG is this some sort of Russian fascist threat?
@tschorsch
@tschorsch 2 года назад
@GG nonsense. The military industrial complex certainly has too much influence, but it by no means runs the entire government.
@jacksnhts
@jacksnhts 2 года назад
I said what Yanis is saying since before the war. My family is from Austria. I’m an Austrian and American citizen. I’ve visited Austria and Finland. Both countries are proud and VERY happy to be neutral. They remember WWII and have no desire to return to the alternative. A peace deal established by the USA and Russia would save the people of Ukraine and re-establish their sovereignty. Let’s be realistic. Putin is not going anywhere. The “Golden Bridge” is the neutrality of Ukraine. Do it now!
@reko7264
@reko7264 2 года назад
I am sure the finnish think about joining NATO.... Austria ...from whom would the aggression come ..easy being neutral
@sirmontecristo2808
@sirmontecristo2808 2 года назад
I am Cuban and I would love to see a neutral Cuba, but as you can see from the UN vote, they voted "X". Also, Finland voted happiest place to live in 2019.
@XxLIVRAxX
@XxLIVRAxX 2 года назад
Putin is a maximalist, he is not interested in ukranian neutrality but its absortion within the Russian sphere, ukranian sovereignty and democracy itself is the threat.
@hyawill8944
@hyawill8944 2 года назад
"Neutral" Finland is easier to be accepted by Moscow then "neutral" Ukraine. Russians have much more to gain from ruling over Ukraine. And probably they perceive greater danger from Ukrainian possible front than from Finnish one. BTW, who should be neutral as well? Poland, Germany, Baltic states? Why does Germany cannot be neutral? Oh, because it is risky to stay neutral.
@reko7264
@reko7264 2 года назад
@@hyawill8944 the main issue is geography. For an attacker there are no obstacles between Russia and Germany... all flat no mountains... a nightmare for a defence... this problem was the reason for many disasters in the past .. the solution could be tight economic boundaries...like between France and Germany..
@brianbrecknock9625
@brianbrecknock9625 2 года назад
What a Great view..I hope The Don't Care Party and the Not Bothered Party in the USA push this wise man's view, and get rid of the absolute crap they are putting out on this issue.
@johnphelan8300
@johnphelan8300 Год назад
My first time to listen to Professor Varoufakis. It was thoroughly enjoyable to listen to such an outstanding speaker. He is learned, charming and witty. Above all I found him genuinely authentic. I am very proud to declare that I am now a fan of and follower of Vanis. It would be so nice to meet him and maybe he would have time and allow me and my friends to enjoy a coffee with him. In the meantime dear professor do NOT stop.
@zerocool6478
@zerocool6478 2 года назад
Thanks you brave man for analysing and telling the truth.
@cheri238
@cheri238 2 года назад
"It is not enough to win the war, it is more important to organize for Peace." Aristotle Stinger honest news. Thumps Up! Democracy Now 👍
@alihassaalix931
@alihassaalix931 2 года назад
This is not a war, it is a military operation for the defence of Russia from the USA and NATO biological weapons produced by the USA in the puppet Zionist/Nazi CIA created coup regime in Ukraine. Free Julian Assang, stop the war on Yemen.
@alihassaalix931
@alihassaalix931 2 года назад
Actually he is stupid, This is not a war, it is a military operation for the defence of Russia from the USA and NATO biological weapons produced by the USA in the puppet Zionist/Nazi CIA created coup regime in Ukraine. Free Julian Assang, stop the war on Yemen.
@Brancaalice
@Brancaalice 2 года назад
Only French president is leading for peace, he want meet the both country, but also he want win second term in France. Smart.
@stumblingmumbler
@stumblingmumbler 2 года назад
@@alihassaalix931 if they are producing bioweapons why haven't they used them? Why are they letting themselves get bombed by Russia?
@stumblingmumbler
@stumblingmumbler 2 года назад
@@alihassaalix931 and NATOs not in Ukraine your delusional
@rubenmejias2503
@rubenmejias2503 2 года назад
I do hope this ends peacefully, for all. The worldwide stakes are pretty high here. This Greek man is pretty much on point
@johnobrien3684
@johnobrien3684 2 года назад
Well said. It needs a summit ...
@michaelgnit8476
@michaelgnit8476 2 года назад
Russia respected it's obligations in Finland yet America has never seen a promise they couldn't abrogate.
@MrPhotodoc
@MrPhotodoc 2 года назад
There are dozens but that's more fingers than you have to count with.
@AZOffRoadster
@AZOffRoadster 2 года назад
We lie, we cheat, we steal. --Pompeo Fire the CIA.
@sharondavis8728
@sharondavis8728 2 года назад
Only because Finn's kick their butts with intelligence and put fear in their hearts
@Grizzlyx9
@Grizzlyx9 2 года назад
russia is not america;s equal. russia is just a small regional power with bunch of old soviet era nukes
@jb2736
@jb2736 2 года назад
@Treavor Martin Man was never created to rule themselves.
@timhogan80
@timhogan80 2 года назад
It's great to hear from someone who for once sees and says exactly what is going on
@xzox
@xzox 2 года назад
He needs to remove His rose tinted glasses.
@TonThonFraisdEau
@TonThonFraisdEau 2 года назад
Quand on voit ce qu'on voit et qu'on entend ce qu'on entend, on a raison de penser ce qu'on pense ...
@jacquelinepayne2012
@jacquelinepayne2012 2 года назад
Except that Yanis forgets that USA does not negotiate, it threatens and dictates.
@TonThonFraisdEau
@TonThonFraisdEau 2 года назад
@@jacquelinepayne2012 Did they with Putin ??
@jacquelinepayne2012
@jacquelinepayne2012 2 года назад
@@TonThonFraisdEau No, they repeatedly refused his requests for diplomatic negotiations over Nato expansion.
@emanuel4998
@emanuel4998 2 года назад
This is sublime. A path to compromise must be sought after. Egos aside and let the common people stop dying!
@neilc4544
@neilc4544 2 года назад
"Never underestimate Joe's ability to f$%& things up" __ Barack Obama
@engrpaulkao
@engrpaulkao 2 года назад
This man is so intelligent, thanks *Democracy now* for having him on board
@thecomment9489
@thecomment9489 2 года назад
he is propagandist
@XiagraBalls
@XiagraBalls 2 года назад
@@thecomment9489 For whom?
@pauloferreira7543
@pauloferreira7543 2 года назад
Naaa... its just west propaganda
@nolitetebastardescarborund9761
@nolitetebastardescarborund9761 2 года назад
@@XiagraBalls For peace.
@wny488
@wny488 2 года назад
@@pauloferreira7543 You obviously don't know who he is. Yanis has criticized the US for its illegal invasion of Iraq and its facilitation of the genocide in Yemen. You seem to be ignorant at best.
@IAmKatrinaRoth
@IAmKatrinaRoth 2 года назад
Sometimes, I pause in disbelief and my thoughts begin to replay, "I can't believe I'm living in such times. We are truly witnessing the destruction of the world as we know it." 💔 Then I have to plan the rest of my work week, like it's business as usual.
@kssgpv
@kssgpv 2 года назад
i feel exactly the same
@keithk8275
@keithk8275 2 года назад
I think about that a lot
@nathansmith622
@nathansmith622 2 года назад
What on EARTH are you talking about. The USA has been going around destroying country after country for the last 20 years. The war on Terror (aka war of terror) has directly and indirectly killed over 6 MILLION people and impoverished 10's of millions and created 10's of millions of refugees. The war in Ukraine has so far killed 1,100 civilians and displaced 3 million, OMG "We're truly witnessing the destruction of the world as we know it" LOL you people are ridiculous.
@VLADIK1502
@VLADIK1502 2 года назад
That's literally the easiest time in history, Destruction of what world? The be lazy and still be rich western world ? Yeah good luck having cheap easy lifes in the future
@Kick_Rocks
@Kick_Rocks 2 года назад
You probably voted for Biden, right?
@brendaclark7106
@brendaclark7106 2 года назад
Some very good arguments and gets to the point. Well done
@alwaysamazed
@alwaysamazed 2 года назад
I am stunned that he didn't mention Big Oil and War Industry profiteering/Institutionalized corporate predation.
@MikaelMurstam
@MikaelMurstam 2 года назад
Really good interview. Many good points. He should be hired as a strategist. Give Putin a golden bridge.
@TheNaduli34
@TheNaduli34 2 года назад
He didn't say what kind of golden bridge, though Putin wants east Ukraine for now....In 2014 he got his golden bridge from Merkel - Crimea...2008 it was Abkhasia and Osetia. May be we should gvie him a golden palace or better a golden Planet?
@Mase251
@Mase251 2 года назад
The golden bridge didn’t work quite well after the „Anschluss“ of Austria or the Sudetenland neither… Appeasement has never worked with leaders bearing imperial impetus and some kind of racial ideology.
@leoupdate8150
@leoupdate8150 2 года назад
@@TheNaduli34 Putin annexed Crimea after 96% of them voted to join Russia
@joescott8877
@joescott8877 2 года назад
Indeed. Give this guy a Gold Star for Wisdom and Putin a Golden Bridge, or chances are it's "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"...
@TheSchneckenchecken
@TheSchneckenchecken 2 года назад
@@TheNaduli34 If the rumours are true about Putins health condition, we just buy some time this way and problem will solve itself in the near future
@chrisebanks8424
@chrisebanks8424 2 года назад
Very good presentation. This gentlemen needs to heard by all parties and countries in this Ukraine matter. Excellent and Intelligent. Haven't heard anything like this in a long while
@dhmo123
@dhmo123 2 года назад
No this guy is an idiot. Or a guy pay by putin. there are alot...
@TheJackelantern
@TheJackelantern 2 года назад
He presents Apathy as an excuse to allow Putin to commit genocide in Ukraine..., as an excuse to think that by doing nothing and sitting on the sidelines watching would mean a better tomorrow. These were the same sort of arguments regarding Nazi Germany as Hitler invaded countries and slaughtered millions.. The attempt at such peace talks when one part will never actually be sincere, is a fools errand. The only time Putin will agree to such a ceasefire is to buy himself time to regroup with the continued objective to annex Ukraine. This won't end in Ukraine unless we put an end to it in Ukraine! Apathy out of fear is going to get more innocent people killed than telling Russia and Putin to get out or get thrown out of Ukraine. The delusional thinking that this will magically get peacefully resolved is hilarious when Russia is all in and that their primary goal is to annex Ukraine and the Baltic states. You give Putin 1 inch and he will take a mile. People think this is simply about Putin's problem with NATO when it isn't.. Russia wants Ukraine for its resources, ports, land, oil, precious metals, and for its strategic location. As the world looks to go Green, Russia needs to expand as their economy is largely dependent on the export of their fossil fuels. If anyone thinks Russia will seriously come to the table with good intentions, they are arguably not the brightest bulbs on the Christmas tree.. What is even more amazing to me is how people didn't seems to believe or think Russia was going to invade Ukraine. Not even the Ukrainian government. I called this the day after they annexed Crimea.. My god, nobody ammasses that many forces on several flanks of a country with the intent to "do exercises / drills"... For Pete's sake, it was obvious for years! Regime change in Russia is as absultely necessary as was it so in Germany during WW II. Putin is already talking rhetoric in the lines of committing genocide in both Ukraine and in Russia... Biden is 100% right! Putin cannot remain in power..
@adeliaesperanza6537
@adeliaesperanza6537 2 года назад
@@TheJackelantern Biden wants this war the Globalists the elites that runs Ukraine for The New World Order
@TheJackelantern
@TheJackelantern 2 года назад
@@adeliaesperanza6537 Of fun, another one of those conspiracy theorists nut jobs lol .. News flash, you live on a planet and everyone must play on a global scale or become irrelevant. You can either deal with your neighbors and society or you can play protectionist and hide in your basement while pretending the rest of the world doesn't exist and won't ever affect you.
@nicoleorton5299
@nicoleorton5299 2 года назад
​@@TheJackelantern Your point it spot-on. I only suggest considering one thing, Biden is more of a serious threat to all of humanity as the commander-in-chief of the US armed forces, possibly more than Putin is. I don't think anyone saw this coming! I think the sh*t has hit the fan in the US because of surfacing verifiable facts that do more than imply his corruption, as well as alleged cover ups prior to voting etc, etc. Now he may not appear to be a loose cannon, right? Just a pathetic foreign relations negotiator who is quite senile. But, this man is in control of the US defenses, including nukes. He has 3 years remaining in his term of presidency, and I think in conjunction with the current world issues that he personally keeps escalating, he can expect a cauldron of hot water waiting for him and his son. I think he is too old, too compromised and in no way possessing the cognitive intelligence or integrity to hold the power of nukes in his hands during this high level stress. The world issues are serious and require exceptional leadership in order to de-escalate all this nuke talk. It would be like "War Games" the movie if one single nuke was fired anywhere! Under those considerations, we all need to think very clearly about things on the world stage.
@pietromueller3535
@pietromueller3535 2 года назад
A real, intelligent and honest man with a differentiated view.
@mikely7354
@mikely7354 2 года назад
Just the lines of thought for such a situation. Unfortunately strategic planning cannot be so farsighted by US politicians. Just look at its histories of international relations. It's got lucky because of the geographic protections which elevated it toward hegemonic power. But the time now is very different. I don't think the US has a slight idea of what it's dealing with right now.
@os3984
@os3984 Год назад
I sure hope the other side wins. In the last speech Eisenhower gave he warned about the military industrial complex taking place. Same as Kennedy in his speech a week before he was shot.
@edwingan1988
@edwingan1988 2 года назад
"Playing with fire" - can Biden even understand what that means?
@orioles7023
@orioles7023 2 года назад
yes, better than you
@lexsteel12
@lexsteel12 2 года назад
I don't think Biden knows where he is, half the time. He's dementia is really getting bad.
@idiaidia6082
@idiaidia6082 2 года назад
Importing gas from US could make EU uncompetitive. This is a real disaster on many front.
@tschorsch
@tschorsch 2 года назад
It gives Europe the time to move to better sources of energy. Otherwise, Europe will have to bow down to Putin.
@Begster
@Begster 2 года назад
@@tschorsch Now it bows down to US, which is, arguably, even worse.
@mikicerise6250
@mikicerise6250 2 года назад
We will be a lot more competitive than under Russian occupation. They only know how to run a feudal economy.
@troublingrain3060
@troublingrain3060 2 года назад
maybe the US sought to separate Russia from Europe in order to be able to sell their gas, so they supported the coup of power in Ukraine and supplied weapons all these years.
@andreimustata5922
@andreimustata5922 2 года назад
@@Begster For Russians ,yes but for Europe the support of US was life saving.
@dragonsnightmare6061
@dragonsnightmare6061 2 года назад
Afghanistan would be a walk in the park compared to the Ukraine
@anoc5511
@anoc5511 2 года назад
This man makes so much sense.
@gobot4455
@gobot4455 2 года назад
Western nations and the US in particular have not had a spectacular record of success when it comes to regime change. If that's the goal, I hope they are actually putting some thought into this if they are seriously considering regime change with a nuclear power.
@ms9771
@ms9771 2 года назад
The US had 88 regime changes without any shame and never learned from their mistake
@mariacosta2211
@mariacosta2211 2 года назад
yes US is a decadent nation
@bearislandthuglife3463
@bearislandthuglife3463 2 года назад
Everything Yanis said has Historic Wisdom behind it, Ukraine should have Neutrality.
@drakekoefoed1642
@drakekoefoed1642 2 года назад
mexico, too? with missiles pointed at usa?
@MrPhotodoc
@MrPhotodoc 2 года назад
Should have, would have, could have. That's all out the window once Russia starts killing civilians.
@jessicahilario6597
@jessicahilario6597 2 года назад
That is already what Putin wants them to be in the first place. But Zelensky makes a comedic script and change the storyline.
@jimcarrington6744
@jimcarrington6744 2 года назад
@@jessicahilario6597 I have been a fan of democracy now for many years. No more! People like you do not care about the truth, & now this channel has become full of dishonesty. Enjoy!
@jacquelineleitch7050
@jacquelineleitch7050 2 года назад
Also, regardless of blaming the war business for wanting another money pit for guns the West has been very tardy in getting the weapons to Ukraine. Typically and even of the people talking on Democracy Now, it is extremely important to listen to the people that you are talking about. Zelenskyy wanted extreme sanctions months ago but the geniuses around the West knew better. Anyone who studies social-history quit sleeping well months ago when Zelenskyy was being ignored. IF I KNOW why doesn't the military power and NATO? Did they want war. Yes. Are they bureaucratised around war power? Yes. It's the USA's only methodology and it's redundant. But here we are so yes please start listening to Zelenskyy more often.
@umarbsillah8630
@umarbsillah8630 2 года назад
Thank you mr. Wise man
@nickrapitis4896
@nickrapitis4896 7 месяцев назад
Voice of reason , great strategist. Bravo soo Yianni.
@junglejarred6366
@junglejarred6366 2 года назад
Someone should do something about the US war machine...
@tschorsch
@tschorsch 2 года назад
Probably, but the Russian war machine is the problem at the moment.
@junglejarred6366
@junglejarred6366 2 года назад
@@tschorsch this is only a matter of biased perspective.
@skyemac8
@skyemac8 2 года назад
Good luck with that one. This only makes it stronger. Bye Poutine.
@junglejarred6366
@junglejarred6366 2 года назад
@@skyemac8 ya, will see won't we
@chizion4022
@chizion4022 2 года назад
Much respect to Yanis Varoufakis. Perfect analysis on all the issues. We should all focus on saving Ukraine not the West or Russia!
@violetsrayreikishop2
@violetsrayreikishop2 2 года назад
The US should've stayed out of this bs and remained nuetral honestly smh
@DimitarBerberu
@DimitarBerberu 2 года назад
Sending weapons that help the oligarchs of the US/EU is very draconian way of "saving Ukraine". They also have oligarchs that control it. Ukraine is also Eastern & should cooperate with Asia/China. The West is too self-absorbed to be wise. The 1st step is to demilitarise the world (NATO&, Russia & those that crossed their region).
@scrappylor
@scrappylor Год назад
Good sense !
@ramonng6381
@ramonng6381 Год назад
The US and EU can only talk of supporting, supplying, financing, praising, egging Ukraine to keep fighting.. ...never to stop the fighting, and negotiating for peace.
@ooics8868
@ooics8868 2 года назад
Russia should just shut down the gas pipelines immediately and let the US amassed all the profits which it has been salivating over. Russian oil and wheat are needed elsewhere. Be tough on the counter sanctions and just let the the US NATO solve their own problems.
@comingviking
@comingviking 2 года назад
Why would Russia DO that? They are still getting paid. And now they are demanding payment in rubles, which contributes greatly to stabilize and strengthen the ruble. Also, they can show the world that THEY are not playing the sanction game, and that they honor their contracts. Unlike other entities.
@michaelhenry5468
@michaelhenry5468 2 года назад
Shut it off for a month let the citizens of each country start the demonstration
@comingviking
@comingviking 2 года назад
@@michaelhenry5468 That will start soon enough. Right now, all of these sanctions are hurting Europe. And the US. The mere mention of sanctioning Russian oil scared traders from touching it. So now there is a fuel crisis, and fuel is twice as expensive as it was before. Gas and fertilizer following closely behind. The sanctioning of Russian banks makes it hard to buy anything Russian. So Europeans will freeze and starve in the dark and the Russians will NOT be to blame. The sanctions will have to be walked back, and as a side effect of all this, international faith in Western banks will have taken a nose dive after the seizing of Russian assets, the ruble will have become a reserve currency and the petro dollar will be on its way to an early grave. When your enemy is busy making mistakes, it is wise not to interfere too much.
@TrapBoiFuse561
@TrapBoiFuse561 2 года назад
@@comingviking they ain’t going paid in rubles they say 😂😂🤣😂 but we will see
@SmellMyKKPP
@SmellMyKKPP 2 года назад
@@michaelhenry5468 Russia can totally do that for one month just to toy with the EU. Call it a sanction. Try to stimulate the people. Give the EU a taste of their own medicine. But I think the move with the ruble is a much better move from their own point of view, in the long term. This feels like a script, a plan coming in execution. NATO still trying to kick.
@christiannwachukwu3089
@christiannwachukwu3089 2 года назад
This man is Fantastically Fabulous with his ideas and suggestions 👌. Can the war mongers and defense contractors listen to him and find a way out for the success of Ukraine?
@USNationalDebtTrillions
@USNationalDebtTrillions 2 года назад
US is taking only 100,000 Ukrainians on a conflict they started it.
@downwithputinsaveukraine1313
@downwithputinsaveukraine1313 2 года назад
@@USNationalDebtTrillions WTF? We kidnapped Putin at gunpoint and said "Invade and murders thousands of Ukrainians or else!" Fk off.
@lilith4961
@lilith4961 2 года назад
Go tell Putin. He is the one that started and can end the invasion
@queenm.lovely5612
@queenm.lovely5612 2 года назад
Exactly my point too
@JESUSCHRIST-ONLYWAYTOHEAVEN
@JESUSCHRIST-ONLYWAYTOHEAVEN 2 года назад
JESUS KNOCKS ON YOUR HEART AND LONGS FOR YOU TO ANSWER! HE DOESN'T WANT TO SEE ANYONE PERISH INTO HELL. GOD LOVES YOU SO HE GIVES YOU FREE WILL AND A CHOICE TO ACCEPT HIM OR REJECT HIM. TO LOVE HIM OR TO LOVE SIN/THIS WORLD. CALL UPON JESUS & ASK HIM TO FORGIVE YOUR SINS! SURRENDER YOUR WILL & YOUR LIFE TO HIM AND HE WILL GIVE YOU ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN! PICTURE YOUR BEST DAY ON EARTH TIMES A BILLION FOR ETERNITY, THAT'S HEAVEN! NOW PICTURE YOUR WORST DAY ON EARTH TIMES A BILLION FOR ETERNITY, THAT'S HELL! HE WILL GIVE YOU WHAT YOU WANT SO IF YOU REJECT HIM YOU WILL BE SEPARATED FROM HIM & HIS BLESSINGS (LOVE, PEACE, JOY, HOPE, REST, ETC). IN HELL YOU WILL BE ALONE WITHOUT GOD OR PEOPLE, YOU WILL BE HOPELESS, YOU WILL BE IN DESPAIR & AGONY FOREVER! GOD'S STANDARD FOR HEAVEN IS PERFECTION AND ONLY JESUS (THE SON OF GOD/GOD IN THE FLESH) LIVED THAT PERFECT LIFE! HE LAID DOWN HIS LIFE & TOOK THE WRATH OF THE FATHER ON THE CROSS FOR YOUR SINS! GOD IS JUST SO HE MUST PUNISH SIN & HE IS HOLY SO NO SIN CAN ENTER HIS KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. IF YOU ARE IN CHRIST ON JUDGEMENT DAY GOD WILL SEE YOU AS HIS PERFECT SON (SINLESS SINCE YOUR SINS ARE COVERED BY JESUS' OFFERING). YOU CAN ALSO CHOOSE TO REJECT JESUS' GIFT/SACRIFICE & PAY FOR YOUR OWN SIN WITH DEATH (HELL) BUT THAT SEEMS PRETTY FOOLISH! GOD SEES & HEARS EVERYTHING YOU HAVE SAID & DONE. YOU WONT WIN AN ARGUMENT WITH HIM & YOU CANT DEFEND ANY OF YOUR SINS TO HIM. WE'RE ALL GUILTY WITHOUT ACCEPTING JESUS' SACRIFICE FOR OUR SINS! MUHAMMAD DIDN'T DIE FOR YOUR SINS, BUDDHA DIDN'T DIE FOR YOUR SINS, NO PASTOR/PRIEST/MARY OR SAINT DIED FOR YOUR SINS, NO IDOLS OR FALSE GODS DIED FOR YOUR SINS, NO ACTOR OR CELEBRITY DIED FOR YOUR SINS, NO ATHLETE OR POLITICIAN DIED FOR YOUR SINS! JESUS CHRIST ALONE DIED FOR YOUR SINS & WAS RESURRECTED FROM THE GRAVE! HE IS ALIVE & COMING BACK VERY SOON (THESE ARE END TIMES) WITH JUDGEMENT! PREPARE YOURSELVES, TURN FROM SIN & RUN TO JESUS! IT STARTS WITH ASKING HIM TO FORGIVE YOUR SINS & INVITING HIM INTO YOUR HEART/LIFE, SURRENDER ALL TO HIM! IT'S ABOUT A RELATIONSHIP WITH YOUR CREATOR. HE KNOWS YOUR PAIN & TROUBLES, TALK TO HIM LIKE A BEST FRIEND! ASK HIM TO REVEAL HIMSELF TO YOU & HELP YOU TO BELIEVE IF YOU DOUBT! DON'T WAIT TO CRY OUT! NO ONE IS PROMISED TOMORROW! HE LONGS FOR YOU TO INVITE HIM IN, HE LOVES YOU MORE THAN ANY PERSON EVER COULD, HE CREATED YOU! Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."-John 14:6 "But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven."-Matthew 10:33 “For the wages of sin is death (hell), but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord”-Romans 6:23
@johnmwewa5589
@johnmwewa5589 2 года назад
Bravo to Varoufakis, he has excellently analysed the Ukrainian - Russian war with a human heart. He put Ukrainians first and not ideologies. The West with NATO It’s power first then Ukrainians. Lets all be human and allow our fellow humans ( Ukrainians and Russians) live.
@rogerclark6605
@rogerclark6605 2 года назад
Yanis let’s not forget Putin made an effort last December to get talks going on some sort of outline to peace in Ukraine.
@nothingnew3419
@nothingnew3419 2 года назад
He managed to bring up some profound thoughts not only on the current situation in Ukraine but on global events too
@bradleyroth9870
@bradleyroth9870 2 года назад
It's little Hitler in the Kremlin that is pushing regime change in Kiev.
@MiCajaDelIdiota
@MiCajaDelIdiota 2 года назад
He also jumped on the anti-Russian, pro-NATO bandwagon, excusing Ukraine's assimilation of Neo-Fascists along the way. Shame on this guy.
@bradleyroth9870
@bradleyroth9870 2 года назад
@@MiCajaDelIdiota The fascists are in Moscow. Mariupol and Kharkiv are destroyed. It looks like Stalingrad.
@annawarner1078
@annawarner1078 2 года назад
@@MiCajaDelIdiota Ukrainian fascists played a huge role in start of this war. After all, they were killing Russians (in a very brutal manner) in Odessa and Donetsk at least since 2014. Finally Russians said no more.
@MiCajaDelIdiota
@MiCajaDelIdiota 2 года назад
​@@annawarner1078 I agree entirely with your statement. Furthermore, the Neo-Nazi Asov Battalion had been fully & officially integrated into the Ukrainian Armed Forces. It's not a situation of a few stray Nazis wondering the neighborhood; it's a situation of the Ukrainian Army having official Nazi representation. I am still researching the presence of these political killers inside the Ukrainian security forces. According to Scott Ritter, they control it. The assassination of Kireev might be liked to them. To be continued.
@danielattah6065
@danielattah6065 2 года назад
Let me say that I am afraid for the situation in Ukraine and Russia, because this conflict has gotten to the point of no return. We all need Compromise and Wisdom to come out of this.
@fraufuchs9555
@fraufuchs9555 2 года назад
For all those politicians we are just numbers. It seems to be just playing chess in their minds.
@ms9771
@ms9771 2 года назад
@@fraufuchs9555 Why US congress does care, asks how Ukraine should have such a wide range of Chemical and biological weapons, or in Armanistan or Gorgistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, by US and EU when the world suffered a lot from covid when the US also trump kept such danger as secret,
@colindant3410
@colindant3410 2 года назад
You don't compromise with the bestial excrement that is Putin.
@aloha6736
@aloha6736 Год назад
World need strong Russia.. Just for live in Future
@calioumarx4289
@calioumarx4289 Год назад
U rite
@georgenzioki26
@georgenzioki26 2 года назад
Security interests and conditions must be met without compromise and upheld and respected to their trivialest requisites security interests must never be compromised peace and coexistence is of utmost and fundamental priority
@hj-bc8sb
@hj-bc8sb Год назад
ONE YEAR LATER HOW DID THOSE SANCTIONS WORK????😒😒😒
@heartred1332
@heartred1332 Год назад
Amazing man !!!!!!!!!!!!!
@USMCCGAGNG
@USMCCGAGNG 2 года назад
The planet has enough resources for every person to have a good life. It is the greed of the few keeping most humans in poverty.
@hans-joachimbierwirth4727
@hans-joachimbierwirth4727 2 года назад
Not the case.
@hans-joachimbierwirth4727
@hans-joachimbierwirth4727 2 года назад
@Bernard The biosphere can not even feed eight billion people without fatal consequences. We are in the middle of a mass extinction that will kill all vertebrates within this or the next century.
@IoannisKourouklides
@IoannisKourouklides 2 года назад
@Bernard You can argue all want that is "Catastrophic for ecosystem", however, it doesn't mean that it is unnatural. Nature has ways to adopt the global ecosystem, like it has done for billions of years. The No. 1 priority of everyone who actually cares about the quality of life of the human beings should have been to punish China and the CCP.
@andrewthurman8836
@andrewthurman8836 2 года назад
Imagine a world government with members like Yanis Veroufakis! I've watched a number of progressive international videos and no one is perfect but all are working to find a better way than what we have now.... keep going!!!!
@littleninjamofo9841
@littleninjamofo9841 2 года назад
Yanis Varoufakis..is talking shite. Putin is removing the AZOV Nazis that was put into government by the west in 2014.Selansky is an actor/comedian supported by the west.
@csisco11
@csisco11 2 года назад
I don’t want world government with the Chinese, Russians or the US in charge. No world government.
@zhaw4821
@zhaw4821 2 года назад
@@csisco11 No one is asking us ! We are free to do as we are told!!!
@atta1798
@atta1798 2 года назад
what he said is logical but an independent neutral Ukraine will not stand long.....
@leroyjful
@leroyjful 2 года назад
Just think, if Putin didn't invade Ukraine this hole thing wouldn't have a conversation!!! But he did, after telling the world that he was not!!! President Biden, had intelligence what Putin's plans were going to be... That not only was he planning to attack Ukraine, but all countries who are not members of NATO... This was the reason President Biden, put American military forces on high alert and moved our military to stand by in Poland... Make no mistake Putin started this war and only Putin can stop it... He has been called a war criminal by the United Nations, as well as by President Biden... However President Biden, have no say so in talks with Putin, that's the job of Ukraine's President, and the United Nations.... President Biden, was in Poland to assure members of NATO, that America had there back...As well as the Ukrainian people....which is the reason President Biden, ordered Russian bank accounts seized in the US.
@TatPan
@TatPan 2 года назад
Excellent speech, well justified !
@williamcheong1536
@williamcheong1536 2 года назад
Excellent Yanis
@lionvictor9944
@lionvictor9944 2 года назад
Thank you Mr Yanis for your excellent proposal to get out of the quagmire in Ukraine conflict. It is the stance of President Putin in resoling the crisis- he said before for 15 years and is saying now too. This is exactly missing in US/NATO leadership.
@moussacamara6296
@moussacamara6296 2 года назад
I can't understand when America is talking about human right. What about Afghanistan Kabul Koreawa Vietnam Yemen Syria Balkans Somalia Iraq Libya? America sold keep quiet when we are talking about human rights my God this people are so evil.😭
@toddr2265
@toddr2265 2 года назад
Oh shudup with your BS moral comparisons. A unilateral attack on Ukraine while intentionally bombing hospitals, schools, malls and apartments is a completely different level of aggression. The entire civilized world agrees with that too.
@jamesjackovich5886
@jamesjackovich5886 2 года назад
North Vietnam and north Korea were backed by communist china and Russia, Syria was bombed by Russians with chemical weapons they were backing Assad another dictator, first the US helped by the muhadahjin in Afghanistan to drive out the Russians, then Al Qaeda caused 911 and the US invaded to kill bin laden ,Yemen is a civil war between the Sunni and Shiites,and Saddam was a murderous dictator who invaded Kuwait and killed Kurds and Shiite in his own country, Libya and Somolia are harbouring terrorists ,the Serbians in Balkan we're trying to kill all the Muslims in Kosovo, with shari'a law there's been wars in the middle east for over 1,000 years, idiot
@troublingrain3060
@troublingrain3060 2 года назад
@@toddr2265 there are a lot of russians living in ukraine and they wanted independence or autonomy after the coup in 2014, everything is complicated
@xwideawake
@xwideawake 2 года назад
@@toddr2265, just shut up, you damn Fool.
@tomh2082
@tomh2082 2 года назад
American human rights is fake.ok. They use that words to control the world . they're only criminal right in America . Crimina getl in jail and get out free many times untill they killed innocent people .life in America is very cheap... You can get killed any times anywhere on street by those Free criminal..the law in Us is not in order.. people's living with fear every days... there's .not enough police on the whole USA..so why they want to be the police of the world.??? Make no Sense..🤔.😝😝😝
@tomtom34b
@tomtom34b 2 года назад
Yanis is a very intelligent person. I remember him being portrayed in the german media as "that combatitive minister, who refuses to wear a tie". Unfortunately I believed these smear attempts back then, until I actually listened to what he is talking about. The Greeks are lucky to have such an intelligent Greek imo.
@thecollector3525
@thecollector3525 2 года назад
Wow ! Just wow 👌 👏
@flomuller3
@flomuller3 2 года назад
30,341,000,000,000 reasons why this whole conflict is needed right NOW
@henryrollins9177
@henryrollins9177 2 года назад
Hahaha...well said..!
@thomasagorhom1139
@thomasagorhom1139 2 года назад
Brilliant host and awesome guest..She asks the relevant questions and then allows her guest to do justice with his answers. I am glad to hear truth untainted.
@JesusMoreno-oo2lc
@JesusMoreno-oo2lc 2 года назад
It is probably worth changing the regime in the US rather than Russia. It should be a topic for public debate. Some politicians or journalists could introduce this topic to discuss worldwide.
@jamesdavis3177
@jamesdavis3177 Год назад
thnxs for the report
@lalicrade
@lalicrade 2 года назад
Bravo, another brilliant presentation from Mr. Yanis. I first watched him in a documentary called ADULTS IN THE ROOM. Every one should watch rhe movie, explains a lot on how the wold politics functions.
@barbh1
@barbh1 2 года назад
Another good documentary is by Oliver Stone, called Ukraine on Fire. It was taken off RU-vid, but can be seen on Rumble.
@r8chlletters
@r8chlletters 2 года назад
Yanis is a brilliant fellow. Thanks for having him on the show.
@lunalogicradio3555
@lunalogicradio3555 2 года назад
He looks creepy af ,would you let him babysit??😂
@counterf8515
@counterf8515 2 года назад
Putting aside his looks, he's a WEF stooge
@shortscenes9338
@shortscenes9338 2 года назад
He can't be that clever, if he doesn't know that Israel rules America. And if he thinks any world leader is any better or worse than any other world leader.
@00short58
@00short58 2 года назад
We love playing with fire
@SuperBalenko123
@SuperBalenko123 Год назад
Strange comments from Mr. Varoufakis... weird, in the past he was most of the time spot-on
@alexandrekodentsov9398
@alexandrekodentsov9398 2 года назад
Don’t you think Putin considered all this with regard to oil, gas, metals, SWIFT, food, bombs, bullets. Even if the man is a lunatic, he knows exactly what he’s doing.
@JonathanRootD
@JonathanRootD 2 года назад
It's blowing up epically in his face in Ukraine.
@daysjours
@daysjours 2 года назад
The lunatic label is absurd. Listen to ambassador Chaz Freeman in the Gray Zone for an elucidating analysis
@vallee7966
@vallee7966 2 года назад
He saved billions in gold just for this war, for seeing the sanctions. But his oligarchs are suffering losses & they can only hold on for so long.
@tschorsch
@tschorsch 2 года назад
No, he sold this to his fellow oligarchs as a quick victory. He probably believed that because of suffering minimal consequences after the invasion of Crimea and other Russian "adventures" in Georgia. Due to his own stupidity or ignorance, he also believed that the Ukrainians wouldn't resist.
@troublingrain3060
@troublingrain3060 2 года назад
@@tschorsch where does the information about the quick victory come from? I will be glad to sources.I have never seen reports from the Russian side that victory will be quick. Only the Western media wrote about a week or two. I think the information that Putin wanted a quick victory is fake.
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