Yanis Varoufakis: Europe Must Stand with Ukraine, Condemn Putin & Roll Back NATO to Restore Peace
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- Опубліковано 23 лют 2022
- What does the Russian invasion of Ukraine mean for the rest of Europe? We speak with Yanis Varoufakis, former Greek finance minister, about the failure of international bodies like the European Union and United Nations in preventing war. U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres implored Russia to withdraw all troops in a speech immediately following Thursday’s attack, and the U.S. and allies are moving swiftly to impose sanctions as retaliation against the aggression. Varoufakis warns these threats are “like a pea shooter trying to stop a tank.” The only hope for a peaceful resolution is for NATO to declare Ukraine will not become a member, says Varoufakis.
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Feed starving Afghaistans, free Palesinians, Yemen
US did with weapons
One child dying every 30 seconds now in Afghanistan thats infants only. More dying of starvation now than in 20 years of war. ASSETS FROZEN IN USA BANKS IN THEIR GOLD BOX. 60 BILLION
They don't have nuclear f@king bombs.
@@ohdude6643 so fuckem ay
Who responsible for the mess in the world yes the Americans,
And now Europe, peace is for all the people of the world you are right 👍
I would love Antonio Gutierrez doing the same for the Middle East, Palestine, Africa, and Latin America. For UN, human being are only US and Europe and that is the main problem we have right now
exactly. hypocrisy at its best. in the name of humanity ask the US and its NATO to get lost and out of many many countries and stop making millions suffer. unbelievable liars how they paint the narrative
you're completely missing the point. the stakes are much higher because the US and Russia are both loaded with nuclear weapons. he deals with crises of every kind every day (from every region of the world) but it doesn't usually have the risk of developing into a nuclear war! i would say hes more critical of imperial and colonial powers than you give him credit for.
@@lukeknopp4267 the only imperial and colonial power now is the US. there is no need for NATO whatsoever to go east. the US can't treat Russia like they treat Syria and Palestine and Afghanistan. its a nuclear power state. so both to blame but NATO and the US to blame most for pushing Putin to reach this decision. Stop NATO expansion towards Russia and Ukraine never to join NATO. EU and NATO have zero effect on democracy. Ukraine is not a democracy. that's it. the only ones who will be hurt are Ukrainian and Europeans. its gonna get worse for people with the prices of energy and gas. all those politicians don't suffer. Only millions of people.
@@lukeknopp4267 u'r completely missing the point, when it hits HOME, they start to FREAK OUT, bombing and killing in the middle east isnt in their soil, so they fuking careless, but now oh JESUS, lets get some popcorn and enjoy!
@@LoyalBasboseh I would agree that yes the US is the main imperial power at this time, and that NATO created the conditions for Putin to justify acting in such a way. But how can you also not see Putin's actions as imperialist? They are literally annexxing parts of Europe! And at what point did Antonio Guterres ever show his support for the American imperial program in the Middle East?
thanks to Yanis for pointing out that the US and Russia both abrogate UN treaties and international law whenever they like - the US invading Yugoslavia and Iraq and so on. Appeals to human rights are of no effect in power politics.
But there is a big difference, and you missed it. In ex-Yugoslavia (your memory failed you: we never invaded Yugoslavia), Serbs under Milosevic were butchering civilians. Remember what Martin Luther King said about the *duty* to disobey an unjust law and *try* to understand that stopping the massacres gave us a duty to disobey a law that says you will not help the victims.
The situation was similar in Libya. But Iraq was a real failure on our part.
@@SpectatorAlius And you conveniently forgotten Syria and the thousands of drone missiles killing thousands of woman and children. Let's not also forget Afghanistan that US conveniently occupied for 20 years murdering thousands and even after they left they send one last drone to take out a family and none of US bitches dare to say it's illegal!
@@SpectatorAlius Of course we should pick and chose which are convenient for the narrative. Guess Palestinians slaughters, murdered, removed from the lands and deprived of any human rights for decades are not on the UN agenda nor any of the Western media but when a certain fake narrative completely debunked yet still being cooked up by the West on Uighurs in Xinjiang, those are Real stories that are easy sell to gullible fools like yourself.
@@SpectatorAlius IRAQ and Libya was a failure, it was not a failure it was an ILLEGAL INVASION by the U.S , I guess only
they can invade countries, which was based on lies, dropping
Bombs on Japan in hiroshima killed soldiers and Civilian's of 300,000 thousand people! The u.s
arms and causes civil unrest in numerous countries with their
GREED and WAR Mongering stealing oil from Gaddafi and IRAQ
and you made reference to martin
Luther King, they don't care about blacks I'm born and live here, the Racsist.
@@SpectatorAlius America uses humanitarian justification to bomb the shit out of countries. There is geopolitical interests the motivates intervention not helping the people. Don't be such a naive idiot
Guterres do look sad, But he stopped short of saying if Putin stopped going into Ukraine he would demand the USA and Nato will provide Russia with the security guarantee required by Putin. He did not say he will demand Ukraine will comply with the Minsk Agreements registered with the UN. Guterres makes no demands on the USA and Nato making it seem as if no fault lies with the USA or Nato.
So now usa and nato invaded ukraine? Are u not in your mental health entirely?
@PK Wong
Don't you know that the US/EU/NATO are always the good guys and the UN must always lick their ass?
@@JuniperJennifer666
No, they just forced Putin's hand, and keep making the situation worse with every weapon and military advisor they send to Ukraine and every unit they deploy in its vicinity.
What do you think would happen if Russia and China started forging military alliances with Latin American countries, eventually reaching Mexico, and then started sending weapons, advisors and units as the US military reacted?
The US is far less patient and tolerant than Russia regarding such matters. Does the Cuban crisis ring a bell?
Hell, the US already starts freaking out when something doesn't go its way in places that are halfway around the world... and half of the US electorate already hate Mexico when it's harmless and has a good disposition towards the US...
I suggest that you inform yourself about the broken promises of non-expansion made to Russia by NATO members, the lack of support for the Ukranian government in Crimea and the Donbas, the conditions of the Minsk agreements which the Ukranian government has never fulfilled, etc.
Anyway, you seem to have misunderstood PK Wong's comment.
The point is that the US, EU and NATO are very good at asking and demanding stuff from others and imposing sanctions, but they're really bad at doing stuff that others ask or demand them to do, make good on their promises or act in accordance with the standards they like to impose on others... and, ofc, sanctions just aren't meant for them, no matter what they do.
For instance, now they're condemning Putin for going against the UN and breaking international law... which is precisely what the Bush administration and its partners did during the Iraq invasion.
Where are the sanctions for the US, UK and Spain?
It's a farce.
He would be our of a job. Inrecall Kofi Anan talking about rhe tremendous pressure he came under to toe a certain line. Hypocrisy and inconsistency are what creates resentments. World leaders are human beings.
Maybe Gutjerrez should have talked to Zelensky to stop the shelling of his own citizens. He had just 8 years to do that. But the way he speaks, he'd need another 8 years for that conference. Where were the Sanctions against Zelensky? Assad would like to know. "Mr. Hypocrite". We know empty words from a LOT of politicians. Especially western ones. But if you want something, you usually have to put effort in, and maybe even sacrifice another goal for it, in order to achieve it. Ever tried that? Or did Mommy and Daddy just give you everything you wanted? This is how a spoiled brat sounds.
The good U.N. Secretary-General could make that same heartfelt appeal every single day to the general human condition regarding the corporate and state war machine causing the ecocidal climate catastrophe, and catastrophic techno-feudal political and economic regression.
Well said!
Oh my sounds like a Wee Herr "Dive,Dive,Dive" Hinkle fan boy/Ewok that's moved on from the Jimmy "free hair dye for all" Dore show to a Das neu Bunker Square of head eyes of Hunn...Boy from Brazil ....
"UN" is a muppet show.
@@tonypate9174 he isn’t wrong though! Sadly there will always be another psychopath born tomorrow so we will never as mankind is concerned not war against each other!
@@mojaadresa4228 It is not UN that failed, it is the people who is holding office in UN that failed to act responsibly and without fear and favour.
These office bearers have allowed a rogue power to unilaterally act according to it's whims and fancy for decades.
"the sudden concern for international law regarding Ukraine is nowhere to be found when it comes to Israel’s illegal occupation and annexation of Palestinian and Syrian land, and its imposition of an apartheid regime on the entire Palestinian people - a crime against humanity.
These Israeli crimes could of course not be perpetrated without American and European support or acquiescence.
When the Trump administration moved the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in 2017, effectively recognizing Israel’s illegal annexation of the city, the EU rejected the move.
The EU also rejected the 2019 US recognition of Israel’s illegal annexation of Syria’s occupied Golan Heights.
Ironically, one of the handful of countries ready to follow the US in recognizing Israel’s illegal annexation of Jerusalem is none other than the US and EU-backed government in Ukraine."
Joseph massad
well said
You're completely correct that the annexation of the Golan Heights and the settlements in the West Bank are abhorrent violations of international law, but let's not pretend the situations in Gaza/West Bank are at all the same with the situation in Ukraine. Hamas attacks Israel and has genocidal intent. Hamas actively invaded Israel, Ukraine hasn't. Hamas fires thousands of rockets into Israel before Israel even thinks of attacking and when it does it's very targeted and limits civilian deaths.
@@danielchapman547 the usa colony 'Israel', has occupied Palestine since 1948, and other countries like Lebanon and Syria...why do you think this colony israel is the only who can bomb others???
@@danielchapman547 🤣🤣🤣
@@margaridamacgregor1471 Syria doesn't bomb others? Or just their own people? 600,000 dead in the Syrian civil war? I guess we've forgotten that while getting caught up about the actions of the one pro-LGBT democracy in the middle east.
EU should make itself independent of US influence. Their relationship with Russia should be devoid of US biases.
After this war Putin has pushed Europe more towards the US...
@@alibitter6361, yup, it's only going to strengthen NATO solidarity. France and Germany have already said they're going to increase their defense budget.
As a European and as a German I´m thankful the United States freed us from the horror of Nazi Regime (and helped us to build up a Democratic State)
- Now I´m thankful for US support sending troops to Eastern European Countries : and I can speak for the majority of European People
At this present moment a discussion about US-EU realationships and (as I can see from many posts) a compare to US actions and violations whether in Iran, Syria, Palestine, Middle East in general, Afghanistan.. is absolutely futile as
:: THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR THIS PUTIN WAR - we´re about facing the most dangerous moment in World History since WW2
and this will not effect just Europe! (of course Europe will be more affected than other Continents)
I really feel ashame for our German Government hippocracy NOT HAVING CUT ALL BUSINESS RELATION YET to Russia (Gazprom)
The Western World should have cut business relationships to Russia long before as there´s NO WAY TO DO BUSINESS WITH PUTIN&Co CRIMINALS
:: the fact Russia dropped cluster bombs on Aleppo should have been reason enough.
I´m getting sick thinking about how Economic Interests rule ... That´s one of the lessons : maybe the most important!
@@stilodrom EU is safer when they have their own policies. Currently EU is enlslaved to America in the name of alliances. They can't choose their own dedtiny. US has committed many war crimes than any other country after 2 world war
@@John-mf6ky that’s not a good thing…
Remembering when the world told the US to get out of Iraq and to give peace a chance.. Wait the world was with the US in Iraq.... 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂
30 years of war in the middle east and UN never once said shit, but now that it's on their territory, they're all about it. It's only been 1 week, wait until 10 years.
I followed that closely. The UN asked Hussein to quit invading Kuwait the first time. Hussein used chemical warfare later. The UN asked Hussein to allow inspection or something. There were UN resolutions that Hussein ignored. He could have given peace a chance. You are revising history.
Can someone please give me the links to Guterres' similar speeches on the Yemenis, Rohingya Muslims, Afghans, Iraqis, Libyans, Syrians and all the underdogs who are suffering like the poor Ukrainians?
Not capatible with "the message"
You will never see it, because they consider as subhuman
You can suscribe to the United Nations channel to hear both sessions and press interviews. Last one I heard was Irish representative stating deep concern for what she termed the "epidemic of coups in Africa".
@@Sky-hz1cc the coups are for the people of Africa, they are talking the coups because they don't want their puppets to go, nothing about the human rights of Africa of centuries of thieving and brutality.
@@ibrahimba4556 Unfortunately
Free Afghanistan billions of dollars to feed citizens aNd buy medical supplies and inrrastructure
Lol if I go back there it won’t be pretty
It won't be used for the Afghan people, it's be used to further fund the Taliban's persecution of those people. Afghans must learn to fight back and assert their rights if they want their property back.
@@randallstephens1680 US must learn not to meddle in other countries and gave back what US stole. But then again US was created out of stolen land and war by destroying and decimating the Red Indians. You should tell your theory to the Red Indians the true sons of the soil.
@@zelenskythegaynazi8680 it was US aid oney so No.
Amy Goodman has dedicated her life to us all to bring us real freedom and liberty news to much risk to her personal safety and well being. Let us all reflect on these selfless ones without which our world would be an even darker place. Much respect to Ms Goodman and the Democracy Now! personnel.
RasRos There is no denying that Amy Goodman has been a different voice in a climate as conservative as the United States. But it is strange that from that position she interviews an economist who has come before public opinion as a progressive, condemning a country for defending itself from a superpower that little by little has been bringing atomic weapons closer to its borders.
She's my fav. Also bec I also have dry mouth and know what it's like when her mouth is dry.
Bullshit,she sold her soul to the devil and she knows it.Sold Russiagate and lost all integrity.
@@karenneely6518
thank you
for speaking up about
Amy No'good &
*Mediocrity Now*
Might as well watch MSNBC 😉
She sold out years ago.
It's impossible for it to be a hoax if he asked them for help in front of millions of people. Saying otherwise is like trying to say 1 + 1 = 3.
"I'm afraid Antonio Guetteres is the chief in an empty tent." - Yanis Varoufakis
😌🚶🚶🚶
The empty tent being exactly what the worlds’ countries want of the UN. Some entity to BLAME when it has NONE of the authority.
Experts: Simple solution is to have declaration that Ukraine will not be a part of NATO
War hawks: See another STRONG reason for NATO expansion.
Today a CNN anchor said that if Ukraine had joined nato already we wouldve avoided this issue completely
Easy for you to say because your not Ukrainian and you don’t really care.
@@GrayzoneGab Wow. How awful. This message brought to you by Raytheon.
There was agreement made in 1990 between US and USSR
Acording to this agreement US guaranteed Soviets that NATO want expend towards the east .
What happend to that agreement ?
Nothing US have history of breaking agreements and the foreign policy is based on they selfinterest a domination .
No other country since the end of WW2 was involved in wars more than US all over the globe .
Since 1990 US government pumed up up to 50 bilions in Ukraine ....
Very generous gesture ,but nothing is for free ,there is a price to pay and people who are gooing to pay are innocent civilians in Ukraine becouse they politicians sell they souls for US $$.
US modus operandi is rather simply ,promote a support pro US liberal candidates in former socialist countries ,invitem to US where they going to be ideologicaly groomed ,they kids will get schoolarship at US universities etc .
So when pro US candidate is elected , bingo ! That will open the door for NAT0.
The Question is ?
Do east European countries need NATO membership or US troops presence ?
or is it in US self interest to establish NATO in those countries ?
I believe that correct answer is the second one .
American used different strategies in Syria ,Lybia or Vietnamor Yougoslavia they used they used millitary and bombed the countries ,killing millions of civilians.
in Europe all they have to do, is buy those countries and they join Nato .
So I have another question ?
What the fuck are US troops doing in Europe in the first place ?
They presence and NATO expansion is treath to a peace and stability in Europe .
Exactly ... They goaded Putin to attack and be the bad guy. The West, i.e USA, doesn't want to compete with Russia and wants to blame Russia for all the things they have paid China trillions of dollars for doing?
To be America's enemy is dangerous but to be America's friend is fatal!
- Henry Kissinger
He chose a side on this planet.
@@jeffbarbato1504 He sure did!
@Alexandria Essays of course! Not when the arm manufacturers are the biggest donors for both sides!
Australia has just learned that lesson......or did it?
@@burt3907 well, I guess we'll find out.
I don't know of any government that practices democracy. Democracy seems to be confused with capitalism. Covetousness creates wars, lies, slander, etc
Let's condemn wars, including the attacks against Donbass and now the attack on Ukraine.
Too late.
That means, the whole world should condemn NATO and the US for being the supplier to make all these aggresions possible
@@kuga7423 Russia doesn't buy that much US weapons... 😅
@@Byrzzaa i wasn't talking about Russia. Russia is second biggest weapons producer after the US.
This whole thing is just disgusting on all sides. Bunch of children have taken over powerful positions around the world and is leading us into an even worse nightmare! Neither side seem to be able to empathize with their own people let alone other nations.
Ego-based, immature men have held many positions of power throughout history & presently
this is caused by nato and nato only
PROVOCATION! has been the history of the USA to start a war with Russia.
Ukraine in history has been a steeping stone to the invasion of Russia. With America installing Zelensky with the billions to get him elected. He is now preforming his deeds for "NATO".
NATO, 100% controlled by the USA.
America will now drag it's allies into war again, and have them do their fighting.
Meanwhile American corporations franchises like,. Pizza hut, Pepsi, Coca-cola, burger king, McDonald, KFC, Starbucks, GM, jeep, Ford, Freto Lay, etc etc etc etc, still selling all their goods. It's all about the USA telling its allies/ NATO . While it's America who makes itself look like the catalyst of world unity. USA believes in America first, fuc$ every one else.
IT'S A WIN WIN , for America as are all wars that they provoke.
Ukraine said they will arm any/all civilians.
Win win for American arms dealers, manufacturers.
USA controls over 800 military bases world wide in over 200 countries. Spends more money on military than top five world powers/countries combined
Who is an aggressor, provocateur.
Preach
That’s the human condition. Has always been and always will be.
I dont understand how nato declaring the ukraine into a neutral buffer zone was never on the table. It would have offered all parties a way to climb down. I guess the mic wins again.
That would have been discriminatory towards Ukraine itself with russian asymmetric warfare and pressure constantly bombarding the country. Ukrainians have a right to determine their own course of action without NATO imposing restrictions towards them. It's Russia who needs to change its attitude. If russia became a good democratic country and are friendly towards Ukraine then Ukrainians would naturally dwvelop a positove affinity with russia. Of course putinists had to ruin that.
@@asleepawake3645 there are certain factors that qualify a country to be considered and the ukraine does not anyways. First of which is control over their territory. All the ukraine wants in the end is security. There are other neutral buffer zones that nato has done so before during hostilities. Neutral does not mean disarmed. It would just mean joint military exercises would not happen on russias border, therefore a deescalation in tension.
@@hhheee3939 , maybe for russia it doesn't matter if there is a buffer zone or not, their end goal was already obvious during the first invasion round in 2014. For them ukraine must simply unequivocally be in russia's SOI. The request to NATO was just a pretext, since it requires a guarantee ( ie. Russia doesn't want Ukraine to join forever, even if they officially gave up luhansk and donetsk ). It was preplanned and premediated with a calculation for a return on investment, and for russia, tye return on investment is higher than any sanctions can be imposed by America and the EU, Russia doesn't need to trade wity US and EU since russia has China as a transhipment point and manufacturing base already.
@@asleepawake3645 but what has that usa nato expansion policy brought? There were assurances given in the 90s to russia after the dissolution of the warsaw pact to never expand eastward past the german border. Clinton went hard for expansion. Nato was established to be a threat to russia. We have to be able to see it from their pov. The usa has the monroe doctrine so no comparison to what russia faces with nato expansion right on its borders.
@@hhheee3939 , the monroe doctrine is history just lile the USSR is history, it is not relevant in US foreign policy anymore.
Belive it or not, the inclusion of Poland, Hungary and the Czech republic into NATO has the intention of reducing the involement of American lives into foreign conflicts. After all WHY would America have to pay for NATO if it is only to grab power? The intention of Bill Clinton for NATO was to get international participants share the burden and eventually be more independent in preventing death and human rights disaster like Serbia, without any American casulaties. Recall what happened to countries NOT in NATO: the rwandan massacre was left to continue.
In hindsight, NATO expansion was prescient to the threat that Russia might go back to be a threat, and that assumption proved to be true today.
If NATO didn't expand, then poland, czech and hungary could have been unstable like bosnia/serbia or ukraine today.
The actions of russia then actually vindicates Clinton's push to include those three countries in NATO. And the fact that America is letting Ukraine burn shows that the Clinton promises not to put largw troops on the border to Russia still holds true, even when russia is actively taking over an independent state. However, if russia starts massacring Ukrainians then I'd think most of tyebworld mightget pulled into military action.
Truly stand together and let's say no to war. All of us.
Reminds me when we invaded Iraq. Oh and Syria, and Somalia, and Yemen, and Vietnam and Korea and Honduras, Nicaragua….
World War 1 started due to stupidity of the leaders of the time. We can use hindsight as we have our advantage in our current position in time. Making our hindsight 20/20. Its 2022 and it seems the "leaders" of the world are willing to throw everyone into the meat grinder? For a global game of Stratego™? Their games are no longer tenable, yet they persist in playing them.
This "Great Game" of theirs, isn't ours. The 7 billion of us on the planet ain't fkn playing it. I would estimate that way less than 1 million people are active players in this game.
The demented, self centered, psychotic strivers and yes-men, and though considered very intelligent and accomplished, show themselves to be dangerously stupid and are in charge? They demonstrate their stupidity, consistently. We don't have to look back on a century or more. We can see the results and plays of their stupid game, just in this new century.
*_Why are these people in charge? Why are they being allowed to steer global events?_*
They always have been in charge.
Inept men have held positions of power & put populations at risk for their ego games throughout history
You mean old men who fear becoming irrelevant trying desperately to hold onto power because they got greedy for power and 💰
Only way to win is to put those million+ men and yes men into the meat grinder or guillotine
@Alexandria Essays yep precisely.
All a state is is a legalized mafia that monopolized state violence to exploit your labor for the benefit of an elite class.
@Rudy Jacket there's still police and mercenary
WRITTEN declaration, Yanus. An agreement. That's what Putin has been calling for ... for weeks. Putin even gave up insisting Ukraine abide by Minsk ll and remove all large artillery from edge of defined break away regions for signed agreement on NATO expansion.
For 15 years…
zalensky did not learn from Georgia. he put ukraine on the exact same path.
Minsk ll? No mention of the Budapest Memorandum 1994? One that Russia signed & Vlad violated?
@Val Lee
Stop trying bot, it's not working. Ukraine violated Budapest Memorandum FIRST by abandoning its neutrality status with NATO signup.
@@sixmillionsilencedaccounts3517 Get f***ed, anti-semite.
Nobody speaks about 48 years occupation of north Cuprus by Turks and all the crimes they did .Nobody talks about the crimes of USA in Yugoslavia Irak Syria Libya etc
Nobody talks about that or the fact that UK sells weapons to Saudis to attack Yemen. Mostly because the media refuses to cover the truth. Nothing but lies on mainstream media.
Serbia deserved what they got.
Wait a sec.. did anyone else notice this guys statement of NATO which is part European was that NATO should stay out of Europe 🤦🏾♂️ he literally said i.e. “for NATO to stay out of Europe and especially Eastern Europe”. And she had no reaction to that statement at all 🤔
He's right. Why does NATO exist at all after the fall of the iron curtain? You should read Chomsky.
It was not a sad day for UN chief when Yemen was invaded. So, who cares?
?
What an UNBELIEVABLY stupid take.
You have a point but your final analysis is problematic, to say the least. 🧐
how is it stupid? nato planned a false flag attack against Ukraine for the nordic pipeline since at least last year.
As Israel continues to bombard Palestine.
@@shannalee2520 "Russia invading Ukraine is not worth caring about because the ex UN chief didn't condemn Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen enough" (they have condemned it)
Is a stupid take because the first statement doesn't logically follow from the second in any way. It's incoherent nonsense.
"The chief in an empty tent " well said.
Or " A tiger without teeth"
Good interview with Yanis, thanks for having him on.
Finally, a guest with a balanced view from both the international & European perspective.
Not a NATO/US shill.
Yanis Varoufakis is acting precisely as a NATO/US shill. Very dishonest of yanis varoufakis to dismiss Russia’s long-stated concerns on NATO expansion by simply claiming such concerns are illegitimate and that "no threat to the Russian state exists." My respect just dropped immensely. People need to remember how proper diplomacy works - by showing respect to the other nation's concerns.
@@kakistocracyusa Better than a Russian tool, or scumbag should I say.
Yanis makes no sense here - if the EU are to roll back NATO NOW, why could they not do it 2 weeks ago, or 2 years ago, or ever since Russia has been raising these concerns
so you wanted a war 2 years ago?
Yanis is a SELLOUT!!!... And this platform is a SHAM ALSO... IF THEY WANTED AN INFORMED REALISTIC EXPLANATION OF THE HOW THINGS GOT THIS FAR... THEY SHOULD ASK ALEXANDER MERCOURIS's INSIGHT on this whole matter!!!. AMERICA AND PUPPET EUROPE... SPINELESS EUROPE ARE THE CAUSE OF THIS WHIRLWIND THAT IS BEGINNING TO BLOW...
@@dragonreborn4704 ....and The Duran , and Alex Christoforou 👍
@@mimimi3440 uhhh...please stay focused, the idea was to AVERT a war
@@dragonreborn4704 I agree - it was never an invasion - it was an operation to rescue the Donbass from a potential genocide - Yanis should know better than to to speak as an apologist for the BBC and mainstream media - he has lost all credibility here - but that is the problem when media figures like Yanis get so much attention - they get carried away with their own sense of importance - to put it bluntly he is as much a liar and hypocrite as those he criticises.
Russia will not allow itself to be surrounded by Nato. This is what this is all about.
In part. It’s also about the illusion of power of a ’leader' who’s become so impopular.
The most tragic thing is that all of this could have been avoided,this all started in 2004 and it took 18 years to get to this tragedy.
Exactly 💯,
Those eastern European countries joined NATO because it was obvious Russia was trying to exert excessive control over them. They joined NATO as protection from Russia. Yall need to stop ignoring that reality because it really makes all of this foolish.
@@09BiGDylan Some eastern European countries took the NATO membership as a blanco check for war against Russia that they will start and the US will supposedly finish and they were never told otherwise.
@@rankoorovic7904 Really? Which countries? Name me one NATO member who joined NATO after 1991 that wanted to INVADE Russia. Estonia? Latvia? Poland? Really?
@@rankoorovic7904 Also name me NATO article that says anything about joining agressive war of one of the members. I cannot find it.
It is a sad day for everyone, the so call "Decision Makers" should quickly realize the biggest help and best advise they can have is to talk with those war refugees in Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan (or even the Vietnamese) how it is like when a war broke in their country. I pray for the peace and safety for all. God bless the world.
This seems to be some of the more balanced analysis i've seen, specially from western sources.
Balanced?
@@Deebz270 yes?
@@Deebz270 Compared to what i've see from BBC and CNN type sources, this does a better job providing more context by acknowledging some of the points that are ignored or poorly represented in the media produced by source as the ones mentioned above, obviously this is all in my opinion and i reserve the right to change it when presented with new facts/information.
I would assert the opposite
Yanis Varoufakis is a man of integrity - he simply calls balls and strikes.
Certainly Putin is acting with overwhelming force but he acknowledges NATOs overreach in Eastern Europe and Russia's long ignored security warnings.
He acknowledges NATOs assurances given to Russian leadership to not unduly expand, given no more Warsaw Pact and no more Soviet Communists to fight
You will not find any of this nuance on the mainstream media. It's just all one sided talk lambasting Russians for taking steps they were warning they were prepared to take for decades.
No one one the mainstream asks why its necessary for NATO to expand eastward given there are 1) no more expansionist communists threat in Europe, 2) Russians are capitalists now and 3) Russia has an economy smaller than that of the single US state of California?
Does NATO need the combined economic and military might of Ukraine to survive? Who exactly is the enemy NATO is strengthening against?
Against this backdrop, Russian concerns seem valid and their continued ignoring has come to a (somewhat predictable) head.
Just my perception seems as though all this could have been avoided.
@Alexandria Essays They wouldn't leave it, cause it's great opportunity to seize russia
Ukraine petitioned to join NATO, not the other way around.
Fact!!!
Yes if nato abided by the agreements.
Independent nations have the right to make decisions in their best interests, without interference from aggressive neighboring countries. Putin been preparing for war since he took office in Russia. He has been looking for an excuse all along, that is just his nature. He's been systematically attempting to undermine democratic nations around the world online and financially. He has been using the internet to create conspiracies, disrespect, and confusion in politics and the media in every major democratic nation around the globe. Do not blame anybody except the man madly bombing the Ukraine and killing babies asleep in their cribs.
"Chief in an empty tent."Well-said Yanis!!!
Corporate media treats peace makers as weaklings in many instances. Their mother companies are entrenched with weapons development and sales. Thx Amy.
Why can't Minsk 2 Agreement be implemented ?
@@nightoftheworld Bullshit. Russia just wanted Ukraine to stay neutral which one of the agreements in the 90s said it would be.
US pressure and Nazis inside Ukraine. US doesnt want peace, its needs a bad guy to rally NATO around, to put further sanctions on Russia etc. Putin seems to have willingly taken the bait...i guess the rewards are worth the risks in his view.
Because the US govt continues to support Ukraine’s rightwing coup govt & its murderous neonazi Azov Battalion.
Yanis- totally knows what the real pulse of the situation is. ☢ ♾ ☢
He's just another Russian agent.
Not, another US M$M Propagandist just like Amy. NATO is to blame. MINSK AGREEMENT
has been ignored by Ukraine for 8 years.
Let the Nazis in the Ukrainian military (Azov battalion) and the Nazis in Ukraine's gov. (Svoboda party) fight their own war. You think Germany's reluctance to provide military support is a coincidence? Ukraine also voted against a resolution condemning glorification of Nazis at the UN along with the only other country to do so; the US.
@@pohakumana4288 OMG! SMH!
Ha ha ha !!!!
@@vallee7966 Let the Nazis in the Ukrainian military (Azov battalion) and the Nazis in Ukraine's gov. (Svoboda party) fight their own war. You think Germany's reluctance to provide military support is a coincidence? Ukraine also voted against a resolution condemning glorification of Nazis at the UN along with the only other country to do so; the US.
@@amazingamerican3958RuSsIaN aGeNt lol
Yanis, making sense as per usual. My only gripe would be to ask him; “What would your policy plan be to stop Putin?”. He details a few things; the cutting off of natural gas from Russia, solidarity with democratic elements within Russia,etc. but would these measures really be enough to stop the Invasion?
He said that Nato and Ukraine should sign an agreement with Russia that the Ukraine wont join the Nato.
@Laika24102007 Judging from the way people are now hiding the fact of Nazi in Ukraine, as if they never existed, I am afraid of the same. And if you mention it, people call you naive or Putin propagandist.
If NATO was not that too aggressive against Russia and stay back few miles, this Russia / Ukraine conflict won't have happened.
What are you a Russian propagandist. Stop believing the lies of putin
@@jadonclifton Any one commenting on internet should have basic judgement and thinking.
@@jadonclifton I'm not a Russian -ist but a truth-follower.
@@jadonclifton Dude, you understand there's a long well documented history that precede this right? If you can't be bothered to understand any of it without having some knee jerk of "Putin puppet" then I'm afraid you're going to have to be dismissed from the jury pool.
@@questworldmatrix Just visiting over from a more libertarian realm (trying to excersise my objectivity muscles and stay out of media silos). Gotta say, your comment has the hallmark of what's increasingly common the further left you peruse in comment sections, namely, that instead of arguing and engaging on a point by point basis, you simply call the opponent out as "uneducated" or "uninformed" or any slight from a list of things that amount to being wrong. But perhaps you were just in a hurry.
And if you care to go deeper on this issue, don't argue with me, argue with @JC. I'm not sure where I come down on this. My question, after acknowledging that the push for a Ukraine to enter NATO does in fact appear needless and aggresive, is this: Was there any Russian behavior that prior to this point that made such a move more responsive as opposed to aggressive? (The move to get Ukraine into NATO is a move that essentially says, hey, you can be of us, and will be protected, if you feel alone and in need of an ally - which, were the Russians to succeed in the same overture, would further empower potential future Russian expansionist capabilities).
NATO purpose according to Lord Hastings Lionel Ismay NATO’s first Secretary General, “keep USA in, keep German down and keep Soviet out”. Can believe this US lead organization till this day still guide so much EU foreign and domestic policy, so sad 😢
PROVOCATION! has been the history of the USA to start a war with Russia.
Ukraine in history has been a steeping stone to the invasion of Russia. With America installing Zelensky with the billions to get him elected. He is now preforming his deeds for "NATO".
NATO, 100% controlled by the USA.
America will now drag it's allies into war again, and have them do their fighting.
Meanwhile American corporations franchises like,. Pizza hut, Pepsi, Coca-cola, burger king, McDonald, KFC, Starbucks, GM, jeep, Ford, Freto Lay, etc etc etc etc, still selling all their goods. It's all about the USA telling its allies/ NATO . While it's America who makes itself look like the catalyst of world unity. USA believes in America first, fuc$ every one else.
IT'S A WIN WIN , for America as are all wars that they provoke.
Ukraine said they will arm any/all civilians.
Win win for American arms dealers, manufacturers.
USA controls over 800 military bases world wide in over 200 countries. Spends more money on military than top five world powers/countries combined
Who is an aggressor, provocateur.
What? Did he stand against US and Nato invasion of Iraq Afghanistan Libya Yugoslavia Lebanon etc????
Yes.
If you are referring to Antonio Guterres he wasn’t the UN Secretary- General in the time that you are referring too.
Thank you so very much for having my man Yanis Varoufakis over for his effective opinions and much needed leadership in progression of Democracy! 🙏✌️🙂
Democracy?? Zelensky banned ten political parties including Opposition For Life that held 45 seats as well as jailing the opposition leader and seizing his assets. He also incorporated the well documented Neo Nazi group the Azov Battalion into its Military Guard.
Yunis is correct GHW Bush promised to Gorbachev "not an inch" to expand to Eastern Europe. Even now, sadly, the US will not say Ukraine will not
be a NATO country. US showed the example of how to make the UN useless when invading another country, W Bush in Iraq. Russia learns how to do it from the US.
So true
That is not fact. While James Baker claims it was promised, it isn't in the transcripts or agreement documents from that time. And while Gorbachev said that line, he later retracted it and said it wasn't true. While I personally believe it might have been alluded to during negotiations or even promised off the record, if it isn't written down then it has little legal implications. If it had been an issue then it would have been addressed in the following NATO-Russia Founding Act, which it wasn't either. Putin is spreading this (mis)information so he can, understandably, play the victim.
@@klompb even if it was the case, countries need to respect other countries interests and use diplomacy. There are red lines, Russia never wanted US imperialism on their doorsteps and it wouldn't be accepted vice versa. War hawks from your neo lib imperialistic government need to do some self reflection and come to an agreement. Unless this outcome is what they were hoping for finally war withdrawal from Afghanistan was wayyyyy tooooo long ago.
@@fazaelma MY neo lib government? Where do you assume I'm from? I agree countries should respect each others interests. And the US didn't hesitate when it came to Cuba. But I would use your argument for a better world view. Russia needs to respect Ukraine's own choice in destiny. To suggest they are merely puppets of the West is a grave insult to the Ukrainian peoples agency. It is time for both the US and Russia to stop acting like they own the world.
@@klompb Ukraine agreed to become a neutral state in 94 agreement.
Why do they want to tear off that agreement by joining Nato?
Nato is not a defence alliance for God's sake. I wish people will stop using that excuse.
This is like watching a sitcom, even Democracy now has become drenched with bias
Wow, where was the hard hitting Progressive analysis. For that you gotta go to John Pilger or Vijay Prashad among journos.
And what's wrong with being biased?
@@jry0511 `Nothing - unless the bias is in favour of NATO 😂
@@BernieHollandMusic I am biased towards truth and peace. Putin has chosen the opposite of peace.
@Laika24102007 why do you make assumptions that I support America's neoimperialism?
Thank you Democracy Now and Yanis, this is really important!
Yanis Varaufkis how do you think Putin would react if there was no NATO?, I’m not a supporter of NATO or any military power, but the fact remains. That Putin wants the Soviet ‘Union’ back as it was, he said Ukraine 🇺🇦 was created by Lenin, and is a part of Russia, not a country of its own.
Europe can have their own military organization, removed from US influence. Simple solution, but for the past 30 years, EU has been lazy and has outsourced its foreign policy to the US. And now Ukraine is paying the price. Break away and start your own thing. Europeans are smart enough to achieve peace with its neighbors and it time for them to take charge of their foreign policy
@@kbaafi 100% agree! ✊🏽🌎
@@kbaafi But this Invasion is not just about Putin’s psychological obsession with emotional attachment to the past. But imo is mainly about Putin and his Oligarch mobster friends fearing Democratic Ukraine and the inevitable change it will bring to Putin’s Russia. Just as the West fears loosing power to progressive’s, Greens etc, they both want business as usual!
War is back since 8 years in the Ukraine. The Ukraine should have implemented the Minsk agreement and NATO should prevent to expand to the east.
This would have prevented the present situation. But the USA just wanted to sell theirs deadly weapons at all cost.
True!
Thank you for having Yanis on. To me as an American, his perspective is one I will always seek out, because it is always extremely valuable. Much love and solidarity ✊
He wasn't always right. He had no idea what was going on in HK for example.
Listening to Yanis you can understand why Greek situation is what it is. For some reason Americans always mistake accents for intelligence. 😂
Guteres..why you did not make a statement for US NOT to interfer in Ukraine.
Why NOT acknowledge that Russia has the right to protect itself?
Why is nato encroaching closer to Russia?
Lol, stop making Russia out to be the victim. Russia has bullied Ukraine for years.
I second the motion. I would love the hypocritic Amy Goodman of Democracy Now to speak out for the Middle East, Palestine, Africa, and Latin America as she has for the Ukrainian people. For the her, human beings only exist in the US and Europe.
Bush did the same thing with the Taliban he went against Russia when they were fighting against the Taliban and then when all innocent people were killed from Bush brought in he asked Russia for help again……. Clean up and control your own yard leave other yards alone!
Innocent people are dieing!
A lot of this would not be happening if the US had not broken its promise to Gorbachev, also a 100% switch to renewable energy would release the EU from dependence on Russian energy.
Again this narrative. If America has broken its (supposed) promise, why does that justify an invasion of Ukraine, which: a) did not make that promise; b) is not a member of NATO; and C) is a sovereign nation that can autonomously choose with whom they want to ally themselves.
Putin is a psychopathic megalomaniac right wing dictator. Don't front for him just because you dislike NATO yourself.
@@bilgyno1 pointing this out doesn't not defend putin. You're doing the very thing you're accusing him for doing- defending U.S. empire whitewashed history
@@GalacticNovaOverlord well, you are using the same argument Putin is using and totally forgetting about the rights of Ukraine.
@@bilgyno1 It's not "supposed" promises. Robert Gates who was the former CIA director under Geroge H.W Bush said that Russia was "led to believe" that NATO wouldn't expand eastward. Everyone from Gorbachev to Yeltsin was given multiple assurances about NATO(that it wouldn't expand eastwards, and then that expansion would happen gradually with close understanding between Russia and the U.S).
Western leaders understood that any talk of NATO expansion had to include Russia. It's not that soverign nations can't join whatever alliance that they want but in the context of the fall of the USSR, it had to be done in a way that didn't threaten Russia's security and turn into neo-containment(which they failed to do)
@@bilgyno1 You are right about Putin...but you seem to miss the fact that your democrats have invaded, destroyed and Killed over 6 MILLION people..are they not even greater mass murderers and criminals.
Great perspective! 👍
Yes,, if you are a card carrying NATO shill !
"when the beast of war is released from it's lair", man this guy is scaring me lol "once the hawks start circling menacingly over the heads of european peoples.."
Yeah. Poetically ominous much? Thank God I live in America right now
This guy is the only person I've heard who seems to actually be thinking. All of this could've been avoided if Ukraine had just stayed neutral.
that's like saying don't stand up to a bully. Ukraine is a sovereign nation. They can do what they want.
Stay neutral with a country that has already annexed your territory and sponsored insurrectionists? Yeah, okay...
"Staying neutral" means allowing Putin to dictate what the Ukrainians can and cannot do, even though they're an autonomous democratic nation. Putin is insane.
@@gailhitson6722 NATO is insane for allowing Zelensky to force Putin to attack by repeatedly shelling his forces during the ceasefire, I watched that shit in real time on youtube.
@@gailhitson6722 Ukraine is fucking dumb, if they had any self preservation they would negotiate, but no, time to die for Nationalist & Nazi coalition
Yanis has a very pragmatic, sensible suggestion. I have followed the onslaught of the US after 911 (an event shrouded in more mystery than the magic bullet of Kennedy or attack on Liberty, much akin to the Bay of Tonkin) into Afghanistan (none of the acclaimed hijackers were from Afghanistan, itself a victim of CIA-DOD, Saudi, Arab agents), then Iraq (ran by a regime that was mortal enemy of Muslim extremists), then into the former USSR republics, then into Libya run by a man who also hated the extremists, then Syria.....
Russia turned into a third world regime under Yeltsin (there were reports last year that he was supported by the CIA and his regime was dominated by the US spooks). Putin turned the tide around and tuned the unipolar world of the US "democracy" exporters to a more multipolar world (now it is quad polar: US, Europe, Russia, China).
Humanity's knowledge has come a long way to ignore that the lifeblood of long lasting peace, stability is FREE TRADE, abiding by the UN Charter, Universal Human Rights, and developing mechanisms to transform the machines of war (all militaries) to the machines of peace (department of peace to replace all ministries of defense with the task of finding means of reducing tension, promoting commerce and economic development across the planet in all the countries.
It is one world, one government (the UN) and many countries represented in the human family of the UN. Who is standing in the way? The fraction of the 1% all over the world who are running everything for their own benefit, dividing the nations and people to rule.
There are enough resources on this planet to last humanity for many generation if we learn to live in harmony with each other, with nature and plan our extraction, allocation, consumption in orderly manner for the benefit of all creatures on the planet. It is a lot easier than planning for wars in the next 50 years or devising plans to hold each other hostage, staring each other down like packs of wolves, building and destroying civilizations..... Let us DREAM BIG. We have the knowledge and resources to accomplish impossible tasks for the good of all humankind.
Yunis is correct GHW Bush promised to Gorbachev "not an inch" to expand to Eastern Europe. Even now, sadly, the US will not say Ukraine will not be a NATO country. US showed the example of how to make UN useless when invading another country, W Bush in Iraq.
Putin killed his own people so as to create a war that he could then take credit for its win.
Then idiots showed up, on sites like this, and spread bs lies so as to knowingly misinform because that’s the type of humans they are.
Have a nice day supporter of evil!
@@elbarca223 do we really know what was said for sure?
@ N Allen: Bravo!!!👏👏👏🙏✌
With enough solar and wind energy we can life localized lives and recycle everything an unlimited number of times compared to a species lifespan. Capitalism makes this impossible, whith its demand for unlimited growth. Even 3..5% growth rate is unsustainable after 400..600 years. That's where we are now. We are rapidly approaching the limits to growth!
Yanis Varoufakis - one of very few speaking some sense at this time
Really ? I would say he is more like one of the many who are twisting the truth as to the realities of the situation
@@BernieHollandMusic can you elaborate as to how he did that in this interview?
A Greek informing us about Europe and democracy. Two concepts Invented and named by the ancient Greeks. How poetic
Unfortunately, he's more on the sophistic side rather than in the philosophers.
Here's something less poetic. The mass murder of Greeks by the Ottoman empire. Greece didn't liberate itself from the Turks with diplomacy.
"War is back on the continent", well it was as well in Yugoslavia and also Europe has no issue waging wars everywhere else and helping the US. Maybe they should learn what it's like.
Most of eastern europe wants to be in Nato and we know what it's like. we know what Putin is like. We are scared, so stop pretending you know more lots cos you've listened to this charlaton Yannis who might be getting paid by Putin . . .
(from the Rep. Georgia).
@@PeleSahota paid by Putin? 🤦♂️😂
@@PeleSahota You are right. The world should have learned its lesson during The August War, but they did not even pressure Russia to hold to the agreement the signed, seizing yet more Georgian territory in the middle of the night sending residents scrambling to find themselves on the Georgian side of the illegal border.
No wonder Putin thought he could get away with bigger crimes w/o paying the price.
@@vojislavl6665 well, he's doing Putin's work, so if he's not paid, he's not as intelligent as think...
@@PeleSahota clearly more intelligent than you.. Not even comparable.
Wow Amy you invited Yanis! Well done ! Perhaps you can invite him again and ask him about his vision how to govern a country. Or you are not allowed ?
Humanitarisn to be human. We have been conditioned by war to accept the unconscionable psychologically damaging and surely affecting our well-being you may say we are cursed.
In principle, yes, neutrality is the answer. But, historically, it has never worked. The countries that tried to remain "non-aligned" during the cold war met with tragedy. See, for example, Indonesia. Neither the USSR nor the US allowed them to remain neutral. Everyone was forced to pick a side. I would like to see the proponents of neutrality, especially Yanis and Noam, explain how this time neutrality will be different.
Holding both aggressors accountable is not being neutral though. Ukraine is the victim and both NATO and Russia should be blamed. Choosing one of the aggressors will only lead to further escalation, as the other side will react much more seriously than before. This is sadly the way we're heading now as Russia is being singled-out as if they're the only bad guys in this conflict.
It worked for Ireland, Sweden and Switzerland during WW2. It worked for Finland during the cold war.
Historically, the Germans inflicted so much pain and suffering on the Russians, so shouldn't the Russians be allowed to do whatever they can to prevent something like that from happening again? It seems to me, everyone is allowed to be afraid of the Russians but they are not allowed to be afraid of anyone else.
Seems like you have an error of small and selective sample size.
in 1994, Ukraine signed the "Budapest Memorandum" which is registered with the UN Secretariat.
At that time, Ukraine had the 3rd largest arsenal of nuclear weapons in the world (after America and Russia).
The essence of the agreement is that Ukraine has renounced nuclear weapons, while the United States, Great Britain and Russia guarantee Ukraine's security assurances.
and the fact that no one is fulfilling its obligations to protect Ukraine is a great political precedent for the world.
This shows other countries that such agreements do not make sense if they are not respected. And if other countries ignores the protection of Ukraine - will lead to the nuclear militarization of other countries. Mr. Varoufakis hasn't brushed up on his history.
What about Afghanistan 🇦🇫 Vietnam 🇻🇳 Iraq 🇮🇶 etc Hahahaha 😂 😁 😅
So your critique is what? Amy is one of the only journalists critical of US imperialism all over the globe. You're saying she should ignore just this one story about two nuclear powers escalating military action in Europe? Why tf would she do that?
@@spencerharmon4669 More positively, one could interpret the original post as suggesting that *in addition* to talking about the Ukraine situation, the UN (presumably) should also talk about the other countries' situations. I think it is a pessimistic reading to suggest that OP wants Ukraine to be ignored.
@@spencerharmon4669 Always critique , always fail to stop anything. And now will be tool to wages wars against another nuclear power.
DN! Joining the anti-Russian propaganda machine. Putin is not "entirely" to blame. Economic warfare sanctions are not an appropriate response. Detante and diplomacy are the appropriate response. Putin asked for Ukraine neutrality and the USA Empire laughed in response. This is the result.
@@chrisj984 he said the USA empire, the commonwealth answers to the US in regards to warfare
@@chrisj984 good for you buddy
Praying for a peace deal for everyone.
The UN Security Council voted yesterday on a resolution condemning Russia. It was 11 to 1, only Russia itself voting against the resolution. China, India, and the United Arab Emirates abstained. Of course, US, UK, and France voted to condemn Russia. Non-permanent members Albania, Brazil, Gabon, Ghana, Ireland, Kenya, Mexico, and Norway also voted to condemn Russia.
30 years - 7 years then 2022 ..... b-loody hypocrites UN.
It takes two to tangle. The US using Europe as its tool has a lot to do with fascism controlling the Ukraine and being strong in Eastern Europe. Let Eurasia control its own destiny without the US acting like the world's nanny. There is nothing benevolent about US exceptionalism. It is now too late for the Ukraine territory to capture the two new republics that Russia is now protecting in the Donbass. If the breakup of Yugoslavia was OK, why not the breakup of the Ukraine?
Zelensky is not a fascist
The idiom is "two to tango," like the dance. Also, what's your point? Yanis is saying that US influence via NATO has escalated tensions in eastern europe and the key to peace is NATO (read: the US) backing down. What's your critique?
@@spencerharmon4669 my critique is defensive alliances are only threats to aggressors. Why should nato back down?
If anything Russia is demonstrating how nato has a place in the modern world and clearly is NOT a relic of an earlier era.
@@DragAmiot I didn't say he was. Biden isn't a neocon.
@@zachj7953 NATO is a tool of the US, and what is the US trying to control in Eurasia.
I like Yanis , he is very reasonable man and why we do not have more politicians like him.
Read my analysis Randy - and please stop allowing yourself to be gas-lit by these people who pose as champions of democracy and freedom
Witnessed the dissolution of Yugoslavia…..at the time, no one stood for the forces that want to keep Yugoslavia together. I now understand it was meant to be.
Ukraine is in similar situation. Russians from Ukraine want to be part of Russia and Ukraine is doomed to disappear.
International law does not exist.
We in Eastern Europe will never leave Nato after this. What is this leftist obsession of getting Nato out of former Eastern block countries. We joined willingly we need protection from Putin's dictatorship. All democracies have to be United and also united in arms to stand up to authocracies wherever they are. Every inch of Europe has to be protected.
Wouldn't you prefer to be neutral and reap the economic benefits of making business with both sides?
@@souljastation5463 There is no such an option on the table with Russia. As soon as you try to be neutral, Russia is installing puppet dictator in your country making it fully dependable on Russia. Joining NATO is just a necessity, Russia is the world's biggest warmonger (besides China), so any help from the US is like a bless for countries in Europe. I know for American lefties it sounds absurd, but sorry, that's the reality we're living in.
@@blinski1 So, Yanukovich was a puppet dictator?
@@blinski1 Also, why Russia never had any problem with Ukraine before the coup? The coup happened in 2014, 25 years after the fall of the USSR.
@@souljastation5463 Yes, Yanukovych was a puppet dictator, with blood of the Maidan protesters on his hands. What does it mean 'never had any problem with Ukraine'? Always had, since 1991! But it was Putin who gave it a new spin, and tied to corrupt Ukrainian government to give Ukraine up to Russia just like Lukashenko did with Belarus. It was just beginning to happen with Yanukovych, when people in Ukraine organized mass protests (of course just like in any of that kind of cases, Putin called them 'fascists', nothing new, he calls a fascist anyone who opposes Russia). Yanukovych asked Putin for help, Putin sent his 'siloviki' (undercover armed thugs) to Ukraine to kill protesters. Ukraine asked West for help to do away with this murderous bastard, and fortunatelly they did it (but still, Ukrainians did most of the work).
Unfortunatelly most of the US left didn't know shit about it, because they don't care about people lives, only about their narcissistic conviction of how their own country is so important it rules the whole world with CIA and NATO operations. And disgusting individuals like Chomsky dare to make fun of people having real concerns about evil imperialist named Putin calling it 'cold war era propaganda', because America this and America that. We have much larger problem with fucking Russia here in Eastern Europe than some US military industrial complex trying to make more cash, we would gratefully let it earn more just to keep this fuckin monster of a dictator away.
What do you think about sending bluehelmets from the UN instead of from NATO to block the invasion?
They would be annihilated.
@@vallee7966 Depends on who sends what troops?
LOL
blue helmets were and always Will be USA /. NATO soldiers
@@mojaadresa4228 I'm not an expert, but my impression was that both the US and other NATO countries have not worked with/through the UN for decades, and up-and-comers China and India haven't quite stepped in to fill the breach. There'd be options that aren't available if large countries had strengthened the UN instead of doing their own thing.
@@KlausJLinke, Thanx for Quick reply. I assume that most of us, ordenary people, are not experts of our own lives but i am sure that we are all, some more, some less, brainwashed in this or other way. The Education is not any more what used to be. I guess that today mostly the media is kind of educational source. Its Resolts we see in our everyday life and in media Which we follow like addicts.
Great interview. Yanis Varoufakis is a super brilliant economist
yes......economist....and he should stay to that
@@afkfromk1 I disagree. Everything he said in this video was brilliant analysis.
He is Fucking joke of an economist. Under his watch Greece sank into a hole.
@@rod6189
No,no,no.
Read his book "Adults in the Room" Interesting!
Greetings.
@@josephinestabel9647 don't need to read anything. I watched what happened to Greece after this clown resigned cause he had nothing to show for in terms of leadership for his country. Fool thought that riding bikes and PR campaigns were gonna fix Greece problems.
Yanis deal would be great
If we had humanists as heads of state of Rússia and US
Being from Poland, membership in NATO is important insurance for us against Russia. That alliance strengthens our place in the European sphere. Romanians and Baltic states feel similarly. So think twice before saying to keep NATO out of eastern Europe.
Bulgarians feel the same.
Yes, but you are al least just 200 million people with Western coverage. The rest of us: Africa, Asia, Middle East and Latin America prefer the crumble of NATO and have help from other countries. At leaset Russia and China respect soverainity in countries outside the small Eastern European world. Behave as European Union not as NATO. Hve your own responsability there.
The Soviet Union was communist and had more than twice the population of Russia. With its present population of 145M in a huge land mass, Russia is in no position neither to want more territory or to dominate the world like the Soviet Union did. Plus Russia is NOT communist. You are thinking as if Russia were the Soviet Union and it's very far from it. The USSR could not produce enough wheat to feed its population. Russia now is the #1 producer of wheat in the world. I am only giving you FACTS. Please think this over based on these new facts. Fear of Russian invasion of Poland is totally absurd. The case of Ukraine is quite different: What do you think WE in the US would do if Canada decided to become a military ally of Russia? We would invade Canada and never allow this! This is what Russia is doing with Ukraine. Make Ukraine neutral, like Finland, and Russia will not bother anybody! Ukraine even has a pro-West president now with Mr. Zelensky, so they have been very free so far, until they and the US decided to OPEN THE POSSIBILITY OF UKRAINE becoming A NATO MEMBER!
@@cavedahonesty105 Oh, please don't tell me what Russia and USSR are. I stopped reading at that. I lived in USSR, did you? We are now in EU and NATO but do you think Russia has stopped funding political parties, disinformation campaigns, spies, bringing novichok and killing our citizens, exploding military facilities etc.? How do you dare to speak to us with authority when you know nothing about the reality of living in USSR and post-communist countries? I bet you didn't see Russian invasion coming last week - did you? Well, we did. So get some humbleness before commenting on topics you are not educated enough about.
Did Russia have another choice, Yanis?
Yes.
There are always choices
No
Bots
Yanis is a highly intelligent and well-informed man of peace with a lot of good analysis here in this video. Thank you for having him. I appreciated Amy asking the corporate media to pay attention to the online anti-war event of Code Pink knowing well her patience with that media since seeing her call out Chris Matthews live on air so long ago over NBC's firing of Phil Donohue for openly opposing the Iraq invasion. You're great Amy, thanks.
WELL WE ALL BREATH THE SAME AIR. SO PUTIN NEEDS TO THINK ABOUT THIS.
Guterres literally told Putin to "give peace a chance."
Thinking of that "Liberal Democracy is worth fighting for" article in Atlantic from the day Kabul fell which might've seemed hysterical then but as many IR experts who've had actual lived experiences in former Warsaw Pact regimes pointed out, Kabul was the cherry on top of a decade of IR disasters. There has never been a time in history when a Great Power had decayed out & the vacuum hadn't been filled by a progressively worse Great Power. Kabul signaled America was truly finished. It was the greenlight for the Autocratic International to be on the march. They're not gonna stop in Ukraine either.
Orthodox doctrinaire antiimperialism died in 1918 when Lenin brazenly and monstrously trampled over everything marxist foreign policy had stood for, and everything he himself had preached and evicerated the Second International for selling during WW1, and invaded everywhere from Little Russia to White Russia and whole of Siberia to Ukraine to Georgia and the Caucuses to the Baltics to Poland, to the whole of Central Asia, etc etc and forcibly tried to consolidate them within the RSFSR. And then throughout the 1920s, the Com8ntern under Zinoviev lost all pretences of revolution and started weaponizing the term antiimperialism as an outpost for the foreign of the Soviet Union. And we haven't even gotten to Stalin yet. The less said about him the better. We haven't even gotten to the genocides, the artificial famines, the camps and the slave labor, the forced population transfers, and the mass executions, with which Stalin littered 1/4th of the globe from Lithuania to Tajikistan. You have to go back to the Mongols to find any parallel to the level of Stalin's hellish atrocities in human history. Midnight in the Century. Other than Nazi Germany, objectively it was the Soviet Union that was the most aggressive imperialist power of the 20th century, not America. The ethnic cleansing Russia did in Poland and Baltics alone is numerically greater than all of American atrocities combined of the the 19th and 20thLet a thousand flowers bloom is what Mao said, a couple years before getting spooked out by the rising dissidence and like a good communist, doing a complete 180 and genociding a million something people in the greaf leap forward. century combined. Russia is still the largest settler-colonialist country in the world. More so than America and Australia. Genocide is Russia genociding and forced assimilating literal thousands of indigenous groups in Siberia and the Caucuses. 70% of Uzbeks and Tajiks died during forced collectivization. Majority nations wiped and replaced by Great Russian Chauvinism. What we need is a "Land Back" for groups like the Baskhirs. And yet the colonialist discourse is eerily silent on Great Russian Chauvinism.
T USA exterminated the indigenous people in this country Killed millions of People in Korea droped 2 atomoc bombs in Japan kiled thousands of Filipinos invaded Nicaragua more than once killing thousands of people the Dominican republic Grenada Panama El Salvdor Honduras Panama inplemented the plan condor in South and Central America Vietnam Laos Cambodia Afganistan Indonicia Irak Livia Yemen , I will stop here because the list is to long.
Well written but one can also reflect on historic European feudalism and the wars peoples of the world were forcibly drawn into in the name of those respective powers. Moving to the present, the consolidation of Europe and its collective message as arbitors of peace and order remain rife with the arrogance an chauvinism of the past. But regardless, there are still profound differences between collective Europe and the Europe of Kings and church. Russia as it is today should not be labelled with the same brush as the former Soviet for the same reasons. But we do and have done. In my opinion, we are the architects of today's events.
Shut up. Russia must prevail! Fuck the minorities
NATO started it, and is responsible.
Did NATO attack Russia? Ukraine is not a NATO member :)
Clearly.
It is as if you were hit by a reckless driver and he would accuse of parents of starting it... Eastern European countries all applied for NATO membership because they all know that Russians will never change, they will never respect us, our freedom, our culture. Ukrainians know that too, which is why they fight so hard. My nation did not fight back in 1968 and had to suffer two decades under the oppression of our "brothers". What a tragedy to be a small brother of a parasitic tyrant. What a courage it takes to stand up for yourself - no matter what the consequence...
Great show as always. Thanks guys.
Does Yanis know that Bernie holds a more hawkish view? I wonder. But I love Yanis. He is wonderful!
If only the UN had some kind of enforcement mechanism, and wasn't rendered powerless by the vetoes from the Security Council.
U.N is useless ,remember iraq and Lydia.
The world needs leader like putin , xi , to check these westerner and their fake democracies.
@@matit.5114 Correct - spot on !
War already happenend in European continent when Nato bombed Yugoslavia. Also this isn't Russia starting war it's ending the war that started in 2014.
Coming from Slovakia, whenever I hear someone say NATO should leave eastern flank of Europe, I cannot comprehend the betrayal and utter stupidity.
No one forced us and the Baltic states to enter NATO. We begged to get in, because we still remember the 20th century and what Russians are capable of. Ukraine and Georgia are clear examples what can happen what happens when a country isn't in NATO and has no defense guarantees...
The world don't wont breathe with heart alone, it must act, if words are falling on deaf ears....Love can be in many forms, this is a varaiant of it....
Yanis you are so brilliant.
That is what we need, Nato out of Europ, Russia out of Ukrain.
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Yesterday we stood at the edge of abyss today we have made a big step forward
Mr Yanis, Balance Comments. I applause this Guy.
Recently I've accepted humanity as a failure.
Stop defeatist talk and start taking action to end US imperialism (e.g. end US support for Ukraine’s coup govt and neonazi Azov Battalion) and get Ukraine’s govt to surrender to achieve peace ASAP.
I have to disagree with Yanis here. Ukraine has 7 years to honour the Minsk 2 agreement yet the whole time it wasn't on the table or attempt to bring peace with the two regions while 14,000 has died. Ukraine actually increased their attacks recently causing thousands of refugees to flee to Russia. The western country could have prevented this from happening but they don't feel they need to listen to Russia's concerns.
So, war in Ukraine is Putin's fault, but at the same time the EU is to blame for not keeping peace in Europe... there is an issue of logic here, rather than political analysis!
An excellent comment, very deep and comprehensive...
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Yanis nails it. Hit em in their gas money.
That would be even worse for Europe. The economy is gas powered.
Then where is the EU going to get their gas?
@33 666A my, aren’t you classy!
@@StuntpilootStef I think that’s what Biden is trying to arrange, getting other sources of natural gas for Europe. I’m sure there are plans of getting it from UAE, Kuwait.
I thought Yanis was smarter than this. It would have been preferable if Putin didn’t attack but honestly, this is 100% the fault of US and NATO who have point blank refused to accommodate the concerns of Russia at every turn because the only goal was to pressure and undermine Russia.
I doubt any war in history has been as easy to avoid as this one. The cost to the US and NATO to sign a formal treaty with Russia to address their concerns was nothing. Not a thing to lose and the reason is simple. The US wants to close off Russia from Western Europe, as simple as that - keep Russia down and preserve US hegemony in Europe and keep the NATO grift going. Don’t blame Putin for this. Ukraine is to Russia as Northern Ireland is to Ireland.
Bull.
Exactly
Yes, Putin is a peace loving hippy and would remain so if it wasn't for Nato.
Very well said and true.
@@serk1933 Pretty much true. Western warmongers start wars for a hobby. It’s the nature of capitalism, always looking for expansion and new markets to sell their useless junk.
HOW dark was Europe
when US invaded Libya on pretense
Exactly.