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2022-03-06

Yanis Varoufakis is of left-wing sympathies, dipped his toes into politics in the UK at the time of the miners' strike in Margaret Thatcher's time (he's practically an honorary Englishman), came to prominence as Greek Finance Minister when he was struggling to get a fair deal for Greece out of the EU (he was out-manoeuvred), wrote some very illuminating books on economics, the ascent of the EU, and his time as Greek Finance minister (all of which I would highly recommend), and is one of the most well-grounded compassionate and sensible politicians that I know.

He doesn't disappoint - in fact he comes up with some quite unexpected (to me anyway) angles which clearly deserve to be taken into account. A thoughtful contribution.

(18 minutes)

 

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My only reservation is that we know from the Covid experience that our media do not harbour independent journalists and cannot be trusted to report impartially the facts through the fog of war - quite how much damage is being inflicted upon the Ukraine is therefore totally unclear, and may not become clear for some time, if ever. 

And we know that Putin has changed over the years - he used to be one of Klaus Schwab's "young global leaders" yet since then the same Klaus Schwab has described him as a traitor to the WEF.

Truly the fog of war is going to take some clearing away.