You mean like how under Apartheid South Africa was a better country for everyone who lived there instead of today? Today South Africa is ran by African gangs, and Muslims are also trying to come in and take over the country. South Africa can no longer offer its people electricity and running water. Yet under Apartheid, the country could offer its people electricity and running water, and even jobs. Not today. All liberal policies lead to South Africa.
Respetfull Sir, allow me to express my great admiration, you are a real giant of inteligentsia, truthfulness,, humanity and all what is positive on that world. Thank you very much.
In my opinion he's much less a criminal than those you mention, and in order to build a new true multipolar world order we need to work with Putin (and Xi). Therefore it's a really bad idea to start by calling him a criminal.
exactly. Saying Putin is a criminal and not Zelensky and the American politicians responsible for this war make me think this man is ignorant or part of the show
Excellent question. I like Varoufakis, but he lost me at that point. It's sort of an auto da fe, an act of faith, that dissident Western intellectuals have to make in order to be listened to. Chris Hedges does the same thing, as do so many others. It's a mistake, because it cedes ground to the criminals who govern us and who never cede a millimeter to their opponents: i.e., the dissident masses.
stating that Putin is a criminal and not Zelenski and the American politicians that are responsable for that war makes him part of the show, he is not telling the true. I don't know if he doesn't know the truth (cause he seems a bit ideological) or if he does know the truth but is part of all this show
@@marymaria8995 correct! he's using Gaza to assert himself as the "left" but left of the neoconservative Empire not left as in anti imperalist disgusting!
Sadly I don't think you can't see the hypocrisy of this guy, who for the sake of some exposure time has no real decency. His never really presents any solution and the so called facts he is babbling about sre more than questionable.
Well done SKY news…..its great to see an intellectual like Yanis on a major channel.He is one of the few intellectuals of our time who also happens to be ethical and a great humaist.
Yanis Varoufakis speak gold as usually! It’s time to work on a coalition with people like Clare Daly and others like to get the European continent back together in his feet!
You don't have to be ashamed, but I understand you. I don't know anyone in Croatia who does not speak negatively against the ruling party and the economic direction we are heading in, but recently they won the elections again and formed a government with the help of coalition partners whose basic premise before the election was that the ruling oligarchy should be overthrown because of crime and corruption. You at least have Yanis in the opposition party,...only a strong opposition can ensure at least some kind of democratic society.
oh my god its such a relief to hear yanis varoufakis speak ..informed, reasonable, compassionate, intelligent analysis...such a comfort to the soul thank you ❤
Because Europe never evolved. They never change. Try tgere were technical innovations and progres but nothing more. Westerners and European never stood on their own feet. Their wealth and prosperity have always been based on stealing and taking from others in one way or another. They never look at the mistakes there forbearers made. They never look at themselves and ask, what do we have to do to change from a predatory society to a society that's works in harmony and have a symbiotic relationship with the rest of the world. The west stil have a feudal system. Like the romans, like in the middle ages, like during the colonial era and just like today. It will be their downfall not just from outside forces but more over from whitin as well.
"The future does not belong to globalist, the future belongs to patriots. The future belongs to sovereign and independent nations who protect their citizens, respect their neighbors and honor the differences that make each country special and unique." - President, Donald J. Trump, 2017
Sovereign and independent nations? - that's why he talked of stealing resources and doubled down on sanctions. He withdrew from the INF treaty deepening the arms race started by George W. Bush when he withdrew from the anti-ballistic missile treaty, invested in missile shield systems and massively increased military spending.
Yeah, oligarchs love “dissident” right-wingers/nationalists as long as they keep the current capitalistic status quo. The fact that they have an almost monopoly on the whole “there’s something wrong with society” these days yet completely ignore capitalism is so typical
Is destroying the Nord Stream pipline capitalist? Yanis introduce language that calls out these dynamics for what they areally are reactionary feudalism... We really need to understnad the capitalist revolution and how Finachialzed captialism isn't really capitalism at all but reactionary feudalism.
Yes, the lack of serious and concerted criticism coming from the *left* (not from the far right), criticism of the EU machinery and of global capitalism, is an extremely striking feature of today's public scene compared to the 1990s. The whole "left-wing indie" movement was forced off stage after 9/11, some of it also abdicated by itself.
@@louise_rose I am in the US ad Europe is expressing a deep desire to become our colony.... Sanctions have permanently cripppled Europe and given a big boost to Russian industriy.
@@urrywest "Deep desire"? Unless you are being flat out sarcastic, you probably should ask yourself "did they jump or were they pushed?" (by the US). Europe owes Ukr.i nóthing and many Europeans have long sicne realized that Ukri is a lost cause for NATO - but the political elite here have their own reasons. /Louise, Scandinavia
Exactly my thought. To glibly call Putin a ‘criminal’ minus the background, context and true causes and nature of the Ukraine war is very odd and disappointing coming from Yanis.
In fairness, I'm sure in a longer interview he'd give his reasons - whether they were valid or not. I'm guessing from they way he talks about a settlement that ignores the last two years or number of "guarantees" the west has defaulted on, they wouldn't be.
Not to barge in, but Varoufakis has indeed described the west’s (NATO expansion) role in this tragedy (for all of us). As he mentions here - we should have _talked_ back in ‘22. (and he mentioned the expansion at this time of me writing…). My take is that no people ARE their state leader at all times. Voices in the US or Israel oppose their governments actions, or imperialism in general (uni protests, climate actions). I would believe that happens in Russia and Ukraine too, but the fog of war is thick - a hopeful outsider like me can not know. Our media are biased like never before - and I’m 58 now… The current aggression of ‘the west’ is just frightening. If this blows up, I’d believe that leftists like me end up in a camp. Strange, since we don’t have power anywhere in ‘the west’.
vlad is not only a criminal, hes a psychopath, a guy who runs a lawless state where he ordered the murder of hundreds of people, theres is no real law in russia nor real economy.
@@sajjadhusain4146 Maybe it is you who do not have the background, context and true causes and nature of the Ukraine war? Did that thought ever occure to you? Probably not - as arrogant, narcissistic and grandiose you are! And yes, Putin is a CRIMINAL! That is why the ICC - The International Criminal Court has issured a warrant against the WAR CRIMINAL Vladolf Putin! If you do not know that I feel very sorry for you. You seem to live in a parallel universe. Am I right? Please get yourself educated before commenting on topics you obviously have no idea about and stop peddling American propaga that the war in Ukraine is only an American proxy-war and that it is all about alleged NATO membership of Ukraine. Please spare us your armchair expertise!
the problem i have with this guy is that he looooves immigration to europe. if it was up to yanis we would have MORE migrants flooding europe, not less.
It is gonna have to be exsctly that. Red scare as much as you want. Private profit interests are the greatest evil of our time and the basis for the economic and ecological downfall of humanity@@schopen-hauer
well norway might not get bombed as much this time but it wont be pretty anyway! @@schopen-hauer - just read plato, when democracy fails you start over in chaos with sticks and stones (not to be mixed up with anarchy, a concept most people dont get at all)
It's impossible, Greece have the same politiciens for decades, this cannot be changed because Greek politicians feed over 50% of the population. Corruption between politicians and citizens in Greece is at a very high level. Most Greeks now are pensioners and civil servants without logic, They just want their children to get a job in the public sector, that's why they vote for the same politicians. They blame Varoufakis because they could withdraw 60€ a day in cash, but forget the fact that they could make payments by debit card, bank transfer, etc. because Greece operates on black money = cash I am a young greek without heritage, so staying here is impossible with a salary of 1000€ and rent of 600€
The creation of the so called modern state of Israel was a tragic mistake, oh & a war crime too. Afterall how could it not be, when it was created for mostly recently arrived foreigners from another continent, & foreigners that had yet to arrive, in total contradiction to the wishes & interests of the local longstanding nativeborn majority, that still made up between 70% & 80% of the population & owned or controlled 90% of the land (either privately or a village/town commons according to the official census maps). No other people on the planet would accept such a scheme, so why should the Palestinians. The Victorian era of colonialism ended decades earlier & colonising already settled land was made a war crime 2 years earlier in 1946. There’s no deny Israel’s colonial status as virtually every zionist organisation that pre-dated WWII had a derivative of the word “colonisation” in their names, only to change their names after the war when such words had a bad smell. There will never be peace for Israel until it openly admit the immoral truth of zionism as a colonial construct akin to the Leibensraum of the Nazis & as such has no place in the modern world.
if people of a said culture buys the houses, who s to blame, the one that sells or the one who buys. ? turkey was once christian, is there a hoopla about islam invading and eventually forcing people to convert??? blame the romans! they were colonizers of what we call israel. we could all live in peace if everyone accepted other people s difference. right now there are some that are forcing you to read a book you are not interested in and adopt a culture that is not yours!
Overall he's still good. I notice people want perfection and to see things exactly the way they do otherwise they discard them. He's a net positive, by far.
disagree … perhaps he’s not trying to give an opinion on Putin (despite the fact that every interviewer asks for it …) perhaps he’s trying to un-ask that question and answer a better one ? like … can ukraine ever win (since russia has nukes) ? no. therefore russia has already won.
Sorry Yanis, but no matter how hard you try you will be never be taken seriously in the west, so drop the performative nonsense like "putin is a criminal"
I liked this man, but this statement about Putin and his rejection of the BRICS lowered his status in my estimation. "Day one" is years ahead of the Neonazis wars against ethnic Russians in the Donbas. Also, Boris Jhonson did intervene 😅
When asked about Ukraine he always starts with "Putin is a criminal, but..." He is smart enough to know if he did not say it he would be dismissed as a pro Putin guy.
We can see European irrelevance just now. Look at the sponsors for the European football championship. How many sponsors are from Europe, China, or USA? Every company wants to advertise and be seen by as many as possible eyes and what a better place than a football match. Just ask yourself. Where is European Amazon, Social media company or mobile device brand?
@@cristiangaban960 Here is another thought. Young American invents the new product to sell it in USA and the world. Young Chinese invents new product to sell it in China and the world. Young German invents new product only in Germany not even EU and the world is not on his/her mind at all.
@@cristiangaban960 Ask Serbian authorities about that not me. I don’t live in Serbia. I don’t pay taxis in Serbia. I don’t know how this is relevant about European relevance.
Varofakis you are joking right if you think Russia will roll back the Russian territory in eastern Ukraine. These territories are Russian territory inhabitant by Russian people.
4:46 No, Yanis I listened to you at many talks now and I found much of what you said quite right ( it’s annoying there’s always your hatred for Germany as well I can understand it being the finance minister of Greece than. But this obstructs a clear view as you very well know and always would be able to see regarding other people.) But today I found the crucial piece that makes your puzzle wrong at all. The EU did do quite well until the 90th, than the USA wanted the eastern countries joining NATO. They didn’t feel threatened because the Warsaw Pakt dissolved itself. So NATO/USA needed an incentive for these countries. This incentive was membership in EU ( getting a lot of money to evolve and people are allowed to work in any other EU country) No simple village can survive if there as as much new citizens as there are old ones and all are poor so all “old” members had to pay for them. NATO/ USA did. force this. I didn’t realise it at that time because I really thought that the EU was independent. Ten years later the amis noticed that their dollar/ banking system was more and more dysfunctional. They tried to give as much debts to EU and Japan ( Japan didn’t want to do they were strikes by HAARP / reactor accident). EU grew bigger and bigger and was hardly to be navigated in any way. These are the foundations of what is happening in EU now. But I don’t know why the EU didn’t say the sentence from Victoria Nuland the other way round: f* the USA . What gives them the power that the EU doesn’t dare to have any own opinion? Well Germany is an occupied country since WWII ( what’s against any international law for that long time by the way) but what about the other EU member states? Please think about. Could it be that all the “political personal” took part in some “Epstein games” and were blackmailed? Did they try it with you too? Is it that simple? ( since Covid we know what ordinary people do to keep their job that they don’t even like) You’re in that scene. Please try to rethink. Thanks 😊
I agree, Putin is not a criminal - anything but. He wanted to protect Russian citizens in East Ukraine from being slaughtered by Neo Nazis in Kiev (14,000 killed) and for Ukraine to remain neutral and not join NATO. Both totally reasonable. Would the US allow Mexico or Canada to join a hostile military organisation? NEVER.
7:04 putin is saying he doesn't want to expand, he wants to protect those peoples on the border being subjugated but allowing them the opportunity to govern themselves. Do you see this happening if allowed? If not, why not Dr. Varoufakis?
The most amount of intelligent analysis ever packed into nine and half minutes! And is this the same Sky News that we get in Australia??! I don't think they'd even invite Yanis on.
Where was your bleeding heart for people in Donbass, Yanis? Bombed and killed for 8 years by the illegitimate banderite regime in Kiev? It was an outrageous demand to stop that, right?
Why tf did they start a war with Ukraine smarty pants ? Why did Russia sent military men in Donbass to arm and train civilians, take institutions, organize militias? What did people think would happen if they fired artillery into Ukraine ? Same clowns that shot down MH17.People in Donbass have no right to break the country in two, no country would tolerate separatism.They should have moved to Russia if they love Russia so much. How is Donbass looking now, how happy are the people that might Russia came to save them ? What a joker !
Yanis is one of the few sane objective & pragmatic voices in the West. The world needs more people like him. I'm sick of the Western media portraying every conflict as a "good v/s evil" Armageddon - the West is (obviously) the "good guys" and, led by the American military-industrial complex, invest in endless wars that benefit ONLY the Western defense contractors. Every decade since Post-WW2, the West has either provoked or supported one or more wars. The American/Israeli "solution" of near-annihilation of the "enemy" in any conflict (rather than finding a win-win long term stable peaceful solution by recognizing issues in their own foreign policies) ensures that long after the war has been "won", the simmering discontent/helplessness amongst the vanquished who are left utterly destroyed (after being labelled as the 'culprits'), channelizes into terrorism. In recent times, I was happy to see Europe beginning to break out of the US mold. But with the far-right winning in Europe, and Trump (likely) back as POTUS, the next decade might see the EU either disintegrate or too fragmented to make any difference on the world stage. And so, the current global mess will keep festering. And lets not forget the pending US-China showdown over Taiwan. For the military-industrial complex its popcorn time.
Putin is not asking for "20% of the territory", as this interviewer said. He took it already. What he was saying was to sit down and discuss Ucraine out of NATO. But was not listened. Don't make fools about yourselves
Varoufakis is a great comrade but he fails to understand Russia's security and NATOs expansion and bullying of Russia. He should know about the US coups around the world, especially the one in 2014. He is so naive.
Seems like this guy has learned nothing about this conflict. It’s sad because seems like he had all the information needed to rationalize a decent conclusions.
With all high appreciation for his intelligence, he lost a big point about the conflict in Ukrain. Sure he has all the necessary info. For that matter, it is obvious for any ordinary person what provoked Russia to take military operation against NATO in Ukrain. As has been seen repeatedly NATO is an ally for intimidiating nations. NATO's miscalculated plan to invade & break Russia is the cause.
I am in the US and I am lauging my ass off at how the Europeans so easily give up their industry and soverenty. I am looking forward to those industries moving to the US.
@@rebelmango2141 I tend to think that US operatives actually thought that sanction would destroy Russia. While sanctions gave Russia a boost, they destroyed Europe. These discussions as to whether or not Eruope resumes traiding with Rusia make no sense to Russia. Russia already got what it wanted from the sanctions.
@@urrywest they didn't give Russia a boost please look into it their revenues are 50% down. Yeah Russia thinks they can do whatever they want without consequences. Did they want a bad economy held together by military spending which isn't a long time solution?
Never underestimate the German people! When they come togheter they are the best in the world in everthing they do! Love and respect to Germany 🇩🇪 from Romania 🇷🇴! Europe must listen to its people! That is what is happening in France, Germany and most of the Europeean countries! 🇪🇺 A more powerfull united Europe is arising! 💪🏻 Big changes are taking place! But we will prevail! The whole world wants us destroied, while we wanted to help and change the whole world for the better! If that means we have to radicalise and wage war, then that is what will do! If you poke the wasp nest you will suffer its wrath!
"Freedom of Speech ends where the truth about israel begins. " - Mohamad Zaki "Every time anyone says that Israel is our only friend in the Middle East, I can't help but think that before Israel, we had no enemies in the Middle East." - Father John Sheehan "Today, nearly everything is made in China, except for courage. Courage is made in Palestine." - Anthony Bourdain
Always a Great pleasure listening to Yanis explain this complicated world in the most simple and humane way! Gives me hope! 🌹🇵🇸🕊️🇮🇹
❤exactly
The war in Ukraine and the decline of the west | #1623 with Douglas Macgregor
So true. I love thisman. 😊
Yannis would see the end of Democracy and Capitalism. Leaving the world only to communists and Muslims. Countries all ran by evil dictators.
It is real simple. It's Good against Evil. God/Jesus = Good. Man/Mankind = Evil. As the Devil has nothing to do with it except be a scapegoat.
He sneaked Apartheid in there^^ Love this guy
yes ! soooo goood !❤
He’s been a real one for a while
You mean like how under Apartheid South Africa was a better country for everyone who lived there instead of today? Today South Africa is ran by African gangs, and Muslims are also trying to come in and take over the country. South Africa can no longer offer its people electricity and running water. Yet under Apartheid, the country could offer its people electricity and running water, and even jobs. Not today. All liberal policies lead to South Africa.
Yannis would see the end of Democracy and Capitalism. Leaving the world only to communists and Muslims. Countries all ran by evil dictators.
Respetfull Sir, allow me to express my great admiration, you are a real giant of inteligentsia, truthfulness,, humanity and all what is positive on that world. Thank you very much.
Thank you Yanis for remaining a strong and courageous voice in these dark times
He is an entertainer.
@@Micke-i1y you are a bot.
@@teugene5850 arent we all? billions of idiots believing we make a diffrence on internet?
Yannis would see the end of Democracy and Capitalism. Leaving the world only to communists and Muslims. Countries all ran by evil dictators.
If putin is a criminal what is the EU, NATO, UN, US?
In my opinion he's much less a criminal than those you mention, and in order to build a new true multipolar world order we need to work with Putin (and Xi). Therefore it's a really bad idea to start by calling him a criminal.
exactly. Saying Putin is a criminal and not Zelensky and the American politicians responsible for this war make me think this man is ignorant or part of the show
Excellent question. I like Varoufakis, but he lost me at that point. It's sort of an auto da fe, an act of faith, that dissident Western intellectuals have to make in order to be listened to. Chris Hedges does the same thing, as do so many others. It's a mistake, because it cedes ground to the criminals who govern us and who never cede a millimeter to their opponents: i.e., the dissident masses.
The US essentially occupied Ukraine in 2014.
@@johnlund2036Yes. Another of Obamas all Regime changes.
I call this great man"The true conscience of Europe".
Correct 💯
stating that Putin is a criminal and not Zelenski and the American politicians that are responsable for that war makes him part of the show, he is not telling the true. I don't know if he doesn't know the truth (cause he seems a bit ideological) or if he does know the truth but is part of all this show
@@marymaria8995 correct! he's using Gaza to assert himself as the "left" but left of the neoconservative Empire not left as in anti imperalist
disgusting!
Sadly I don't think you can't see the hypocrisy of this guy, who for the sake of some exposure time has no real decency. His never really presents any solution and the so called facts he is babbling about sre more than questionable.
@@gelupopa271 his job is to keep the "left" voting for status quo..
Well done SKY news…..its great to see an intellectual like Yanis on a major channel.He is one of the few intellectuals of our time who also happens to be ethical and a great humaist.
Yanis Varoufakis speak gold as usually!
It’s time to work on a coalition with people like Clare Daly and others like to get the European continent back together in his feet!
Claire is a Marxist. Did you know that?
She lost her seat too.
Clare Daly just lost her seat alas.
Yannis would see the end of Democracy and Capitalism. Leaving the world only to communists and Muslims. Countries all ran by evil dictators.
I am ashamed as a Greek that this decent man is only getting 2,5% in the elections here.
he only closed the greek banks when he was in government i wonder why he doesn't get more votes
The tendency to sustain a status quo by those who are sustained by it, seems a strong characteristic of human nature.
You don't have to be ashamed, but I understand you. I don't know anyone in Croatia who does not speak negatively against the ruling party and the economic direction we are heading in, but recently they won the elections again and formed a government with the help of coalition partners whose basic premise before the election was that the ruling oligarchy should be overthrown because of crime and corruption. You at least have Yanis in the opposition party,...only a strong opposition can ensure at least some kind of democratic society.
Good fellas have little chance to win as they don’t lie and don’t provide fake hopes to the public. People like politicians selling them dreams.
Perhaps you should question integrity and fairness of your electoral system.
Same goes for Croatia.
oh my god its such a relief to hear yanis varoufakis speak ..informed, reasonable, compassionate, intelligent analysis...such a comfort to the soul thank you ❤
@@thetruth9210 that's rich coming from someone who calls themselves 'the truth'
@@zantecarroll4448 HA....yes !
And a loser
Yannis would see the end of Democracy and Capitalism. Leaving the world only to communists and Muslims. Countries all ran by evil dictators.
Thank You Mr. Yanis for Your Humanity.
He's a brilliant man!
Because Europe never evolved. They never change. Try tgere were technical innovations and progres but nothing more. Westerners and European never stood on their own feet. Their wealth and prosperity have always been based on stealing and taking from others in one way or another. They never look at the mistakes there forbearers made. They never look at themselves and ask, what do we have to do to change from a predatory society to a society that's works in harmony and have a symbiotic relationship with the rest of the world.
The west stil have a feudal system. Like the romans, like in the middle ages, like during the colonial era and just like today. It will be their downfall not just from outside forces but more over from whitin as well.
Police arrest one heath minster and ten doctors for selling body parts and nazi Ukraine military service hii
❤well said and well REASONED.
He is very smart ❤
We love Yanis,Yanis for European president!🎉🎉
Europe should be independent from the US, a form an economic union rather than a supra national state the EU 🎯
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Thank you Mr.Yanis . You are as full of Dignity and Integrity , as always .
Yannis would see the end of Democracy and Capitalism. Leaving the world only to communists and Muslims. Countries all ran by evil dictators.
This is how an interview should be done .This lady let the guest express his view without interruption .
Thank You Mr.Varoufakis. Always Honest. 💫
Wow best Lady journalist ever, so professional in control calm and collected
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BRAVO YF. The TRUTH must out.
Yannis would see the end of Democracy and Capitalism. Leaving the world only to communists and Muslims. Countries all ran by evil dictators.
Yanis always amazes my with his humanistic, equality and brave approach to challenging issues. We need more people like him in power
Yanis Varoufakis views on the subject is positive and substantive to the point.. really impressive..
Comrade Yanis a great man with humanity in these darkest of times 👍
Mr Yanis Varoufakis is a great intellectual, with a clear view of what is happening in the world.
The only reasonable man in Europe.
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"The future does not belong to globalist, the future belongs to patriots. The future belongs to sovereign and independent nations who protect their citizens, respect their neighbors and honor the differences that make each country special and unique." - President, Donald J. Trump, 2017
Sovereign and independent nations? - that's why he talked of stealing resources and doubled down on sanctions. He withdrew from the INF treaty deepening the arms race started by George W. Bush when he withdrew from the anti-ballistic missile treaty, invested in missile shield systems and massively increased military spending.
Welcome said 100% correct ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
France should be saved from Macron.
nope
France needs to save itself, or fall
Africa should be saved from France
but before that, the people of gaza should be savend from Hamas
@@Berlinrevue so many questions, that I'm so sure you do not have answers to.
None of them deserve to be saved.
Yanis’s rationale is right on the mark!
Yeah, oligarchs love “dissident” right-wingers/nationalists as long as they keep the current capitalistic status quo.
The fact that they have an almost monopoly on the whole “there’s something wrong with society” these days yet completely ignore capitalism is so typical
Is destroying the Nord Stream pipline capitalist? Yanis introduce language that calls out these dynamics for what they areally are reactionary feudalism... We really need to understnad the capitalist revolution and how Finachialzed captialism isn't really capitalism at all but reactionary feudalism.
Yes, the lack of serious and concerted criticism coming from the *left* (not from the far right), criticism of the EU machinery and of global capitalism, is an extremely striking feature of today's public scene compared to the 1990s. The whole "left-wing indie" movement was forced off stage after 9/11, some of it also abdicated by itself.
@@louise_rose I am in the US ad Europe is expressing a deep desire to become our colony.... Sanctions have permanently cripppled Europe and given a big boost to Russian industriy.
@@urrywest "Deep desire"? Unless you are being flat out sarcastic, you probably should ask yourself "did they jump or were they pushed?" (by the US). Europe owes Ukr.i nóthing and many Europeans have long sicne realized that Ukri is a lost cause for NATO - but the political elite here have their own reasons.
/Louise, Scandinavia
No we're not @@urrywest
They tried to silence Yanis. All he is doing is spitting facts.
Yannis would see the end of Democracy and Capitalism. Leaving the world only to communists and Muslims. Countries all ran by evil dictators.
He speaks common sense and no one listens but the few of us...
He's spot on, even though Europe will hear none of it.
Humane, fair, clear seeing. Thankyou,Yanis
Yanis is a man I greatly admire.
Says a lot about you
If I could somehow cast a vote for him/ his party, I would have - even though I live in Poland :)
Este hombre es un gran intelectual, si pudieran traducir sus intervenciones al español sería muy bueno, Thanks a Yannis.
I could never resolve this dilemma : do we live in an Abnormal or an Amoral Epoch ??
More Amoral than Abnormal and only because how Amoral has been here far longer.
Why not both?
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Amoral
Disagree with the statement criminal without giving valid reasons or delving into the root causes.
Exactly my thought. To glibly call Putin a ‘criminal’ minus the background, context and true causes and nature of the Ukraine war is very odd and disappointing coming from Yanis.
In fairness, I'm sure in a longer interview he'd give his reasons - whether they were valid or not. I'm guessing from they way he talks about a settlement that ignores the last two years or number of "guarantees" the west has defaulted on, they wouldn't be.
Not to barge in, but Varoufakis has indeed described the west’s (NATO expansion) role in this tragedy (for all of us). As he mentions here - we should have _talked_ back in ‘22. (and he mentioned the expansion at this time of me writing…).
My take is that no people ARE their state leader at all times. Voices in the US or Israel oppose their governments actions, or imperialism in general (uni protests, climate actions). I would believe that happens in Russia and Ukraine too, but the fog of war is thick - a hopeful outsider like me can not know. Our media are biased like never before - and I’m 58 now…
The current aggression of ‘the west’ is just frightening. If this blows up, I’d believe that leftists like me end up in a camp. Strange, since we don’t have power anywhere in ‘the west’.
vlad is not only a criminal, hes a psychopath, a guy who runs a lawless state where he ordered the murder of hundreds of people, theres is no real law in russia nor real economy.
@@sajjadhusain4146 Maybe it is you who do not have the background, context and true causes and nature of the Ukraine war? Did that thought ever occure to you? Probably not - as arrogant, narcissistic and grandiose you are!
And yes, Putin is a CRIMINAL! That is why the ICC - The International Criminal Court has issured a warrant against the WAR CRIMINAL Vladolf Putin!
If you do not know that I feel very sorry for you. You seem to live in a parallel universe. Am I right?
Please get yourself educated before commenting on topics you obviously have no idea about and stop peddling American propaga that the war in Ukraine is only an American proxy-war and that it is all about alleged NATO membership of Ukraine.
Please spare us your armchair expertise!
End Apartheid, End Occupation, Freedom Justice Equality for the indigenous people of Palestine
What are a great man with integrity 🤔 👏 😀 👌 😅.
Yanis you are such a gift to humanity. Thank you.
you need a sugar daddy?
an excellent interview. Always like to hear this guy's opinion.
Why is Putin a criminal? Did Yannis ever explain? If he did, I must have missed it.
Yanis always a clear and concise thinker. UN needs such men.
ευχαριστώ from California. You are the best!
the problem i have with this guy is that he looooves immigration to europe. if it was up to yanis we would have MORE migrants flooding europe, not less.
he s a natoist!
We need more people like him in this world
The greatest Europeen politician with a clear vieuw in the future.
500 years of a failed system is luckily coming to an end, failing from day 1……im happy to live and watch, interesting times. Greetings from Norway
The printing press birthed the nation state, the internet will kill it. We are seeing the process slowly unfold over the past 25 years.
and what system would you create next, please dont tell me communism, please dont.
It is gonna have to be exsctly that. Red scare as much as you want. Private profit interests are the greatest evil of our time and the basis for the economic and ecological downfall of humanity@@schopen-hauer
well
norway might not get bombed as much this time but it wont be pretty anyway!
@@schopen-hauer - just read plato, when democracy fails you start over in chaos with sticks and stones (not to be mixed up with anarchy, a concept most people dont get at all)
@@schopen-hauer did you really expect an answer?
What a wonderful man. Bravo. Blessings.
From the river to the sea nothing will be owned by Israeli
sensible and straight to the point
Thank you Yanis for keeping us ordinary folk abreast of what is happening in our world 😊
Why doesnt the Greek Government fix the Macedonia issue with Yugoslavia? We Greeks have had enough with the Slavic propaganda against Greece.
I wish Greek people weren't so brainwashed by the media and gave Yanis the chance to lead the country
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we did, it didn't end well
It's impossible, Greece have the same politiciens for decades, this cannot be changed because Greek politicians feed over 50% of the population. Corruption between politicians and citizens in Greece is at a very high level. Most Greeks now are pensioners and civil servants without logic, They just want their children to get a job in the public sector, that's why they vote for the same politicians. They blame Varoufakis because they could withdraw 60€ a day in cash, but forget the fact that they could make payments by debit card, bank transfer, etc. because Greece operates on black money = cash
I am a young greek without heritage, so staying here is impossible with a salary of 1000€ and rent of 600€
The creation of the so called modern state of Israel was a tragic mistake, oh & a war crime too.
Afterall how could it not be, when it was created for mostly recently arrived foreigners from another continent, & foreigners that had yet to arrive, in total contradiction to the wishes & interests of the local longstanding nativeborn majority, that still made up between 70% & 80% of the population & owned or controlled 90% of the land (either privately or a village/town commons according to the official census maps). No other people on the planet would accept such a scheme, so why should the Palestinians. The Victorian era of colonialism ended decades earlier & colonising already settled land was made a war crime 2 years earlier in 1946. There’s no deny Israel’s colonial status as virtually every zionist organisation that pre-dated WWII had a derivative of the word “colonisation” in their names, only to change their names after the war when such words had a bad smell.
There will never be peace for Israel until it openly admit the immoral truth of zionism as a colonial construct akin to the Leibensraum of the Nazis & as such has no place in the modern world.
if people of a said culture buys the houses, who s to blame, the one that sells or the one who buys. ? turkey was once christian, is there a hoopla about islam invading and eventually forcing people to convert??? blame the romans! they were colonizers of what we call israel. we could all live in peace if everyone accepted other people s difference. right now there are some that are forcing you to read a book you are not interested in and adopt a culture that is not yours!
Thank you Yianis Varoufakis !!
We're working on the subtitles.
Quite rare to hear such straight-talk from a European politician.
Yanis is so right I agree 👍 💯 % what solutions are there now to safe the mess
With his comments about Putin, YV became ordinary.
Ordinary western politician.
darling, he always was
@@Berlinrevue Back round 2011, the Greek crisis, I took him for a thinker.
Overall he's still good. I notice people want perfection and to see things exactly the way they do otherwise they discard them. He's a net positive, by far.
disagree …
perhaps he’s not trying to give an opinion on Putin (despite the fact that every interviewer asks for it …)
perhaps he’s trying to un-ask that question and answer a better one ?
like …
can ukraine ever win (since russia has nukes) ? no. therefore russia has already won.
Sorry Yanis, but no matter how hard you try you will be never be taken seriously in the west, so drop the performative nonsense like "putin is a criminal"
I liked this man, but this statement about Putin and his rejection of the BRICS lowered his status in my estimation.
"Day one" is years ahead of the Neonazis wars against ethnic Russians in the Donbas.
Also, Boris Jhonson did intervene 😅
@@palestinev3722taking the wrong meds on geopolitics.😏😏🙃🤣🤣🤔
@@PeterLamin-pi6rv No , the man is correct . Unlike you and your Western arrogance .
also he has no problem at all with the mass migration into europe, quite the opposite actually.
When asked about Ukraine he always starts with "Putin is a criminal, but..." He is smart enough to know if he did not say it he would be dismissed as a pro Putin guy.
We can see European irrelevance just now. Look at the sponsors for the European football championship. How many sponsors are from Europe, China, or USA? Every company wants to advertise and be seen by as many as possible eyes and what a better place than a football match.
Just ask yourself. Where is European Amazon, Social media company or mobile device brand?
Yes but who collects the money from all these brands ?
@@cristiangaban960 Not Europeans for sure or the least amount of it.
@@cristiangaban960 Here is another thought. Young American invents the new product to sell it in USA and the world. Young Chinese invents new product to sell it in China and the world. Young German invents new product only in Germany not even EU and the world is not on his/her mind at all.
@@dekibrebre yes Europeans.
Don't forget to thank Serbia for selling 800 million dollars worth of artillery shells for Ukraine.
@@cristiangaban960 Ask Serbian authorities about that not me. I don’t live in Serbia. I don’t pay taxis in Serbia. I don’t know how this is relevant about European relevance.
Varofakis you are joking right if you think Russia will roll back the Russian territory in eastern Ukraine. These territories are Russian territory inhabitant by Russian people.
very perspicuous, well-thought analysis; thank you!! ❤❤
Go Yanis, it's good that you speak out so boldly, and the rest remains silent.❤
4:46 No, Yanis
I listened to you at many talks now and I found much of what you said quite right ( it’s annoying there’s always your hatred for Germany as well I can understand it being the finance minister of Greece than. But this obstructs a clear view as you very well know and always would be able to see regarding other people.) But today I found the crucial piece that makes your puzzle wrong at all. The EU did do quite well until the 90th, than the USA wanted the eastern countries joining NATO. They didn’t feel threatened because the Warsaw Pakt dissolved itself. So NATO/USA needed an incentive for these countries. This incentive was membership in EU ( getting a lot of money to evolve and people are allowed to work in any other EU country) No simple village can survive if there as as much new citizens as there are old ones and all are poor so all “old” members had to pay for them. NATO/ USA did. force this. I didn’t realise it at that time because I really thought that the EU was independent. Ten years later the amis noticed that their dollar/ banking system was more and more dysfunctional. They tried to give as much debts to EU and Japan ( Japan didn’t want to do they were strikes by HAARP / reactor accident). EU grew bigger and bigger and was hardly to be navigated in any way.
These are the foundations of what is happening in EU now.
But I don’t know why the EU didn’t say the sentence from Victoria Nuland the other way round: f* the USA . What gives them the power that the EU doesn’t dare to have any own opinion? Well Germany is an occupied country since WWII ( what’s against any international law for that long time by the way) but what about the other EU member states? Please think about. Could it be that all the “political personal” took part in some “Epstein games” and were blackmailed? Did they try it with you too? Is it that simple? ( since Covid we know what ordinary people do to keep their job that they don’t even like)
You’re in that scene. Please try to rethink.
Thanks 😊
Mistake number one.Dont call Mr Putin a criminal.
Syria, Chechnya???
I agree, Putin is not a criminal - anything but. He wanted to protect Russian citizens in East Ukraine from being slaughtered by Neo Nazis in Kiev (14,000 killed) and for Ukraine to remain neutral and not join NATO. Both totally reasonable. Would the US allow Mexico or Canada to join a hostile military organisation? NEVER.
He is. So is Biden. There are no innocent men in power.
@@MahmoudWazwhat about those two? Any concrete examples?
Oh he is. He's just not as exceptional compared to many other world leaders who are criminal themselves
Great coverage thank you
Thanks Yianis
"we never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity" ...brilliant
Prayers of praise to Saint Jude of Taddeus.
the far right should go to a distant galaxy.... please. 😢
far, far away
Great job also to sky news for this interview. Ask the question, hear the answer.
7:04 putin is saying he doesn't want to expand, he wants to protect those peoples on the border being subjugated but allowing them the opportunity to govern themselves.
Do you see this happening if allowed?
If not, why not Dr. Varoufakis?
Putin says new and contradicting things all the time.
And there is no such thing as "on the border".
@@peterkyed9911 would you care to elaborate?
The most amount of intelligent analysis ever packed into nine and half minutes!
And is this the same Sky News that we get in Australia??! I don't think they'd even invite Yanis on.
Where was your bleeding heart for people in Donbass, Yanis? Bombed and killed for 8 years by the illegitimate banderite regime in Kiev? It was an outrageous demand to stop that, right?
maybe he was soooooooo busy, buying a new house....
Why tf did they start a war with Ukraine smarty pants ? Why did Russia sent military men in Donbass to arm and train civilians, take institutions, organize militias?
What did people think would happen if they fired artillery into Ukraine ? Same clowns that shot down MH17.People in Donbass have no right to break the country in two, no country would tolerate separatism.They should have moved to Russia if they love Russia so much. How is Donbass looking now, how happy are the people that might Russia came to save them ? What a joker !
Yes ,Russia have the right to try to stop this even arms ,but Putin doesn't "born" in 2020 ,are you remember war on Chechenia?
stop this war ! that was yanis’s message from day 1 … not sure 🤔 whether you got that 🤷🏽♂️
@@davereynolds3403 Putin didn't get it.
Europe is becomng the real definiition of the old world ......
Get your self to gaza then a another all mouth no action
Yanis is one of the few sane objective & pragmatic voices in the West. The world needs more people like him.
I'm sick of the Western media portraying every conflict as a "good v/s evil" Armageddon - the West is (obviously) the "good guys" and, led by the American military-industrial complex, invest in endless wars that benefit ONLY the Western defense contractors. Every decade since Post-WW2, the West has either provoked or supported one or more wars.
The American/Israeli "solution" of near-annihilation of the "enemy" in any conflict (rather than finding a win-win long term stable peaceful solution by recognizing issues in their own foreign policies) ensures that long after the war has been "won", the simmering discontent/helplessness amongst the vanquished who are left utterly destroyed (after being labelled as the 'culprits'), channelizes into terrorism.
In recent times, I was happy to see Europe beginning to break out of the US mold. But with the far-right winning in Europe, and Trump (likely) back as POTUS, the next decade might see the EU either disintegrate or too fragmented to make any difference on the world stage. And so, the current global mess will keep festering. And lets not forget the pending US-China showdown over Taiwan. For the military-industrial complex its popcorn time.
RUSSIA never wanted to be pusched
in to ASIA. They have an obsession
about that.
Yanis always very sensible when talking. Unfortunately the narration only hears you once in a blue moon...
He is a good person, but screaming Putin is a criminal will not help. That way Vanis looses credibility
This man is the last of the Ancient Greeks.
Yanis is everywhere almost like god!
Why dont you do a write-up on BLACKROCK, the US conglomerate ?
Putin is not asking for "20% of the territory", as this interviewer said. He took it already. What he was saying was to sit down and discuss Ucraine out of NATO. But was not listened.
Don't make fools about yourselves
YOU NEVER DISAPPOINT SIR 👌💯
I love Yanis! He makes sense!
Varoufakis is a great comrade but he fails to understand Russia's security and NATOs expansion and bullying of Russia. He should know about the US coups around the world, especially the one in 2014. He is so naive.
bullying of Russia , yes sure. Poor Russia, always playing the victim. Did Ukrainians steal their comedy shows or what happened ?
He is no comrade.
If he cant see russia-ukraine-us/nato's situation, he is no good
Indeed, how dare Yanis disagree on Russian imperalism desires! NOT FAIR!
Thank You !!!
Varufakis would make a fine PM of any country.
"This guy gets its right 50 percent of the time . He has some serious blind spots."
hahah spot on
Yanis is a wonderful person!
Love Yanis...Top bloke.
Seems like this guy has learned nothing about this conflict. It’s sad because seems like he had all the information needed to rationalize a decent conclusions.
With all high appreciation for his intelligence, he lost a big point about the conflict in Ukrain. Sure he has all the necessary info. For that matter, it is obvious for any ordinary person what provoked Russia to take military operation against NATO in Ukrain. As has been seen repeatedly NATO is an ally for intimidiating nations. NATO's miscalculated plan to invade & break Russia is the cause.
This guy is a dreamer.
stuck in the past. govts have pushed people to the edge.
He looks super clever and explain facts in so simple way
Yanis has absolutely lost his mind if he thinks things can be brought back to a state before the invasion of Ukraine.
That world is gone.
I am in the US and I am lauging my ass off at how the Europeans so easily give up their industry and soverenty. I am looking forward to those industries moving to the US.
That works never existed
@@urrywestthey aren't and should we keep doing business with Russia regardless of what they do
@@rebelmango2141 I tend to think that US operatives actually thought that sanction would destroy Russia. While sanctions gave Russia a boost, they destroyed Europe. These discussions as to whether or not Eruope resumes traiding with Rusia make no sense to Russia. Russia already got what it wanted from the sanctions.
@@urrywest they didn't give Russia a boost please look into it their revenues are 50% down. Yeah Russia thinks they can do whatever they want without consequences. Did they want a bad economy held together by military spending which isn't a long time solution?
Yanis is always on point. Why is he not representing the people of Europe instead of the Joker von der Leyen?
I love him a lot! If u want to know what is the reality nowadays than listen to him
Id be so nervous interviewing him ! ❤
Never underestimate the German people! When they come togheter they are the best in the world in everthing they do! Love and respect to Germany 🇩🇪 from Romania 🇷🇴! Europe must listen to its people! That is what is happening in France, Germany and most of the Europeean countries! 🇪🇺 A more powerfull united Europe is arising! 💪🏻
Big changes are taking place! But we will prevail! The whole world wants us destroied, while we wanted to help and change the whole world for the better! If that means we have to radicalise and wage war, then that is what will do! If you poke the wasp nest you will suffer its wrath!
"Freedom of Speech ends where the truth about israel begins. " - Mohamad Zaki
"Every time anyone says that Israel is our only friend in the Middle East, I can't help but think that before Israel, we had no enemies in the Middle East." - Father John Sheehan
"Today, nearly everything is made in China, except for courage. Courage is made in Palestine." - Anthony Bourdain