Yanis Varoufakis on France, Europe, Ukraine, Russia and Palestine
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- Опубліковано 19 чер 2024
- In this interview for Sky News, Yanis Varoufakis explains why Europe is fading into irrelevance. He discusses the current situation in Europe today, the rise of the far-right, Ukraine, Russia, Palestine and much more.
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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.
SAINTS , saints are all european even jasus christ
The US essentially occupied Ukraine in 2014.
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.
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..
From The river to the sea Palestine will be Free 🇵🇸
Stop The Genocide 🇵🇸
From the Rhine to the Mediterranean, France will be free.
@hamzamian7320 Women tell people what to do, men compel and motivate people.
@hamzamian7320 All you have is talk.
Living in a fantasy will not create reality.
From the Arctic to the sea, Europe will be free.
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.
He sneaked Apartheid in there^^ Love this guy
yes ! soooo goood !❤
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.
Thank you Yanis for remaining a strong and courageous voice in these dark times
he is another globalist , that lost its shining , star but still belonging to the same gang
He is an entertainer.
@@MB-H you are a bot.
@@teugene5850 arent we all? billions of idiots believing we make a diffrence on internet?
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
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 he agrees with you 😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@thetruth9210 that's rich coming from someone who calls themselves 'the truth'
@@zantecarroll4448 where have i lied
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.
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.
he is a stupid guy , he does not know what he says is just a attention seeker like so many
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.
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.
BRAVO YF. The TRUTH must out.
Thank you Mr.Yanis . You are as full of Dignity and Integrity , as always .
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.
he is just a agent of the globalists trowing a pr stunt to keep in in the graces of mainstream people
bullying of Russia , yes sure. Poor Russia, always playing the victim. Did Ukrainians steal their comedy shows or what happened ?
He is no comrade.
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
We love Yanis,Yanis for European president!🎉🎉
We don't love his views and there is no such thing as a European President
Europe should be independent from the US, a form an economic union rather than a supra national state the EU 🎯
@@PeterLamin-pi6rv A common market, that's a good idea surprising no one thought of it before
silly
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!
he just a snake oil merchant like so many others
Claire is a Marxist. Did you know that?
She lost her seat too.
Clare Daly just lost her seat alas.
@@cornishhh but not her true jesus was even killed for that as muamar kadaffi
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@@jesselivermore2291
well
norway might not get bombed as much this time but it wont be pretty anyway!
@@jesselivermore2291 - 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)
@@jesselivermore2291 did you really expect an answer?
End Apartheid, End Occupation, Freedom Justice Equality for the indigenous people of Palestine
From the river to the sea nothing will be owned by Israeli
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.
The greatest Europeen politician with a clear vieuw in the future.
France should be saved from Macron.
Its about time the French came to their senses
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.
Yanis always a clear and concise thinker. UN needs such men.
This man is the last of the Ancient Greeks.
Welcome said 100% correct ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you Yianis Varoufakis !!
We're working on the subtitles.
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?
💯@@mitsostim07
@@mitsostim07
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Amoral
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
If I could somehow cast a vote for him/ his party, I would have - even though I live in Poland :)
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.
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?
What are a great man with integrity 🤔 👏 😀 👌 😅.
He's spot on, even though Europe will hear none of it.
Comrade Yanis a great man with humanity in these darkest of times 👍
Yanis Varoufakis views on the subject is positive and substantive to the point.. really impressive..
Humane, fair, clear seeing. Thankyou,Yanis
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
an excellent interview. Always like to hear this guy's opinion.
They tried to silence Yanis. All he is doing is spitting facts.
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.
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 😊
Yanis you are such a gift to humanity. Thank you.
fan boy
you need a sugar daddy?
End the Israeli apartheid.
Europe is becomng the real definiition of the old world ......
Get your self to gaza then a another all mouth no action
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?
This is how an interview should be done .This lady let the guest express his view without interruption .
He speaks common sense and no one listens but the few of us...
he speaks sense but always comes to the wrong conclusion
Thank You !!!
Yanis is a man I greatly admire.
Says a lot about you
very perspicuous, well-thought analysis; thank you!! ❤❤
How Traumatized is all this. Imagine !
Sorry, but Putin is not a criminal.
If he ist a criminal, are there criminals in the West too...?
And then.... think about it and... go ahead...?
He clearly is a criminal and a dictator.
@@cristiangaban960 russian people like putin!
@@cristiangaban960 No.
@@srdjandobrota2864 Says you, but we can see what's happening.
sensible and straight to the point
Thanks Yianis
RUSSIA never wanted to be pusched
in to ASIA. They have an obsession
about that.
Yanis’s rationale is right on the mark!
"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.
Great coverage thank you
Prayers of praise to Saint Jude of Taddeus.
What would any country have to do if the neighbor places missiles pointing to their territory?
Neo_feudalism is a more appropriate phrase .
Why is Putin a criminal? Did Yannis ever explain? If he did, I must have missed it.
the far right should go to a distant galaxy.... please. 😢
far, far away
Looks like its you lefties doing that
I love him a lot! If u want to know what is the reality nowadays than listen to him
They say 20% of Ukraine as if it's unthinkable. Let me remind you, that mere 30 years ago Moscow controlled 100% of Ukraine, and did so for centuries. And it was fine.
Britain had controlled 100% of Ireland for centuries and it wasn't fine either.
and ukraine is a small plot of land that became bigger because of hungary and russia,
"Irrerevance" is definitely a term describing Mr. Varoufakis.
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.
Thanks
Yanis always very sensible when talking. Unfortunately the narration only hears you once in a blue moon...
Yanis’ obsession with calling Putin a criminal is childish.
Even smart people like him can fall victim to the western “russia bad” narrative
Id be so nervous interviewing him ! ❤
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!
Why dont you do a write-up on BLACKROCK, the US conglomerate ?
Yanis is everywhere almost like god!
Great men 😊
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!
What "far right"??? If anything, it's the return to normalcy and Christian democracy.
I agree
Christianity historically came after democracy , so what the connection with any religion as there is none in evidence .
👍 thanks 👍
I love Yanis! He makes sense!
Me too, he talks sense then comes to the wrong conclusion
Go, Yanis. Yr continent needs Greek wisdom more than ever now.
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.
This guy is a dreamer.
stuck in the past. govts have pushed people to the edge.
Finally someone speaking some sense. Why isn't he prime minister yet?
Great analysis
Germany "was" the Steam Engine..........Now it's the Hamster Wheel.
Netanyahu is like Putin .war war 😢
Yanis is always on point. Why is he not representing the people of Europe instead of the Joker von der Leyen?
He is a good person, but screaming Putin is a criminal will not help. That way Vanis looses credibility
ty Yanis
Best man!
Journalists nowadays, seem to be more interested with how they're going to look than with whats being said.
He was a Finance Minister for a week. 😁
A narcissist always invariably operplays his/his hand.
Likewise the Europe entity, an organism, will eventually overplay its hand
It's a great man yanis
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UA-cam doesn't let me Thumb Up 4 Yanis, what's Up with that.
Is UA-cam no longer 4 FREE THINKERS
YT does it all the time and has never been 4 free tinkers!