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He is a complete fucking clown, especially when it comes to russia.

Well done Dmitry - now can you do the same (it’ll need to be a small book) with Daniel Hannan’s infamous “What Britain Looks Like After Brexit”? www.reaction.life/p/britain-lo...

Sterling, if grueling, work.

Of course it's trash, its on unherd which is just the new spiked

Excellent!

Their academic home is SOAS - read lots of their stuff when doing a late MSc in international development. Search their site in vain for any mention of the Holodomor. 3-5 million Ukrainians starved to death by Russia matters not to these people. Still trotting out Stalinist propaganda decades later

I remember having high hopes, then this guy decided to play chicken with greek economy and lose and emerged with chip on his shoulder against EU. Or maybe the existing chip has just grown bigger. None of his ideas afterward were any better.

I've never been able to stand that bloke.

Yeah, also no one is inviting them to snort cocaine off a $12,000 an hour sex worker on the dancefloor in Bucha while praising them for being the only rational, fair and unideologically motivated westerner who truly understands the deeply poetic Russian soul.

They are anti-Western Westerners despite the West no longer existing. They switch from Ukraine to Gaza to Taiwan with no detailed local knowledge at all. Other countries are not real. They are just tools in their opinion affirming tool box.

Is that like when UK Prime Ministers go hunting for a handshake and a hug from Zelenskyy when they’re under pressure? How exactly is the coalition of the willing going? What are they up to?

What upsets me is that they always suggest that Putin would accept something, which Ukraine or Europe or whoever wouldn’t give to Putin, but there is nothing that suggests that Putin will accept any such thing Neither Ukraine nor Georgia is in NATO, they would like to join the EU though

Where did he get those views from: does he believe (as many Russian do AIUI) that Ukraine is an inherently Nazi nation?

Tankies gonna tank @darthputinkgb.bsky.social

Thank you for writing this. After reading your thread I had to go & read the original, reasoning that "there must be something else there". But no, just a piece of apologism & appeasement that can't be described as anything other than obscene & treasonous to any normal conception of liberty & safety

Drag him, D

Well, if his argument assumes a British right to rule territories explicitly granted independence, it is wrong. So i think i am not defending him at all.

It’s almost like you don’t know about the brutal war that was fought there for years against an overstretched empire with a long history of atrocities that had just “won” a Pyrrhic victory in the Great War leaving it cracking at the foundations. Google “Amritsar” too, ffs! Plonk!

Very telling somewhat he chose unherd for his telltale..

I agree, he loves the sound of his own voice. his volte face on Milei in Argentina was spectacular.

And for balance I will list below, the many criticisms Yanis makes about Russia's part in the war. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

He's a narcissistic idiot. Always has been. Always will be.

Omigosh, thank you SO much for dismantling this screed in such detail. I chortled over many of your points. You've nailed it with this thread, and I hope writing about it prevented the aneurysm you suspected would occur.

I love it when you’re furious I always learn stuff

Thank you for your service 🫡

Please don’t have an aneurism Dmitry!

Why do all left-wing contrarians end up being tankies?

Everybody gets their shot of “I’m so clever” dopamine, and the speaker gets some money on top. And everyone will leave a little bit dumber.

Based on a cool 80s bumpersticker.

You're the bee's knees & the cat's pyjamas. Seriously, you're flipping ace.

If he's making money, it's likely a grift. If he's doing it despite losing money, it's more likely delusion. These people are often spectacularly wrong but keep falling upwards (see also Daniel Hannan whose Brexit delusion won him a peerage). I think "wilfully intellectually dishonest" nails it.

You can go on YouTube every day and listen to supposed expert geopolitical analysts say similar things - usually along the lines of 'NATO made Putin invade' or 'Russian has already won'. All based on zero facts whatsoever. They clearly never listen to what Putin actually says internally.

same, fuming in the woods

Thing is Varoufakis is still invited on BBC shows, normalising him.

Excellent takedown of that charlatan wannabe Che Guevara Varoufakis! 👏 👏

Apparently his organisation has a peace plan. One suggestion is a demilitarised zone 200km deep on both sides of the frontline. Which includes Kkarkiv and Kiev. Like Ukraine is going to leave them undefended. The plan isn’t just pro-Russian, it’s stupid.

..."The Russians are receptive to me bcs I was thinking outside the box from the start"; "I surrendered, surrendered to the festive mood which my message had created"; "and this, ladies and gentlemen, is how you create ties and spread peace"

These days Varoufakis is basically a more articulate version of George Galloway, and should be taken just about as seriously

I'm surprised he could type anything what with the gag reflex being what it is

Unsubscribjng from Unherd (🤮) was almost as satisfying as closing my X (🤮) account.

You're very kind to them.

Isn't it just? An article by some shyster writing for this decrepit outfit popped up in one of my Google news alerts. Title sounded interesting, but they went Unheard.

bUt tHeY aRe cOntraRiaN

Yeah I remember their reporting on Covid-19, fucking despicable shit publication.

Spiked for the right wingers

Varoufakis has had a couple of moments but I agree he's been mostly embarrassing recently and even a bit suspicious.

Russia alread had a sensible peace and security pact with all of Europe, the US, Canada, and all the former Soviet Republics. It is called the Helsinki Final Act, which Russia authored and signed in 1975 and then reaffirmed in 1990, 1995, 1997, and 2003 (under PUTIN). Art. 1, HFA:

I like how the whole thing is written as if the *actual first words* in the article are not "Since the invasion of Ukraine..." Who invaded Ukraine, Varoufakis? Start there.

I may be old-fashioned, but isn't saying stupid things on the Internet supposed to be shameful? How did he come to the conclusion Europe has only two solutions? Does he honestly think no one will notice this premise, which is as convenient as it is ridiculous?

almost like theres a common pattern between shilling for russia, putin, china and arab terrorists ...

Oh not abusive coded wording here at all. "Look what you made him do....". FFS.....

Also interesting that he compares Europe to Trump and Russia to Iran when it was Putin who assumed his war would be finished in a few days, and it's still going, like Trump assumed Iran would roll over.

5/ Yeah dude, Russia's economy is going great guns. They're crushing it. This is the kind of economic inisght and analysis that made Yanis such an invaluable asset to Greece. Is monthly inflation of 6% and a 15% interest rate good, Yanis? Military Keynsianism lmao.

Agreed. It's an inane assumption, based on no factual evidence. And I don't recall any European leader calling Putin "Hitler". It's strawman nonsense.

Well, to be fair, the sanctions were sold to Europeans in part as a way to force Putin to capitulate or face a potential coup. There were a lot of sceptical voices, too. In any case, it diminishes Russia's ability to wage war.

You have to hand it to the guy - Trump attacking Iran is like sanctions - NOT like Putin attacking Ukraine. It takes a special kind of ethical and intellectual bankruptcy to nail that one.

Yanis is a moron for the simple reason that Putin doesn’t want peace, he wants “victory” which he can’t get as that is not being offered and not suggested by Yanis either

This part is especially wrong. Regime change in Russia, while desirable, wasn't the aim. No one expected a popular uprising against Putin. After a brief period in which post-USSR Russia looked like it might become a real democracy, the policy has reverted to one of containment, not overthrow.

Outrageous. I feel like I’m going to have a stroke so I had to stop reading Yanis’s garbage.

These guys are just replaying the 1930s all over again aren’t they? academic.oup.com/book/2836/ch...

Thank you! Not a fan of his at all. I don’t believe he’s European even 😂

Since the invasion of Poland, Europe has had only two options regarding its stance toward Nazi Germany: forever war or offering Nazi Germany a sensible peace and security pact.

Everyone knows that you can't just say "no" to a unilateral declaration of peace - it's the moral force that makes it binding.

Many of the most radical parliamentarians ended up as royalists (when parliament won) - chartists who moved from fighting for working people to ever more extreme and violent rhetoric which just didn’t match the more simple demands of working people. Etc etc

What a poisonous jerk Varoufaxis has turned out to be. Must be money involved.

Don't get to see his post because he's on the "Tankies and other Communists" list I have blocked.

Yanis Varoufakis is a moron

Can’t believe there are people still doing this. The offline ones I know have long since moved on to preventively justifying China’s invasion of Taiwan.

Yes, it is infuriating. If Ukrain concedes territory, then Russia will continue to invade and grab, till its heart's content. Namely: never. Nauseating, really. Trusting Russia is like trusting Trump, suicidal.

❤️

Varoufakis occasionally pops up with sensible stuff but the rest (ie most) of the time - and this is a very good example of it - it’s just 🤦🏻.

I don’t see why people are surprised. It’s classic Yanis. No consistency, just vibes-based narratives. Funny how Germany being forced to hold the line so accession countries aren’t forced to bail out Greece is evil meddling in a country’s sovereignty but actual war makes him side with the aggressor.

Thanks for doing this.

I am going to get my morning rage level soon enough, don't want to fill up to quickly.

Thanks Dmitry! ❤️ Fuck off Yanis! 💩

Now he's visited Moscow, I wonder whether he'll be visiting Kyiv?

Beware Greeks bearing grifts.

Must have been terrifying for Yanis when he actually got to be in charge of Greek finances. Suddenly found himself applying his theories instead of shouting from the sidelines. And yet he still finds an audience for his nonsense. If Ukraine caves there will be no more Ukraine and Europe should worry

I don't know why someone like him can claim to have specific views then work for Unherd. I guess that's rhetorical because he's a grifter so of course he writes for them.

He's not worth an aneurism. Hasn't Varoufakis removed himself a long way from Europe to west coast of USA?

Was it because his understanding of Russian politics is like his wardrobe, stuck in the 1980s?

Also Yanni and Hitler: www.bbc.com/news/world-e...

Thanks so much for the thread and sorry that you actually had to read the full article...

Thanks so much for the thread and sorry that you actually had to read the full article...

What's up with everyone pulling a Glen Greenwald? This guy has to be another flip for rubles POS

It is naive to assume the enemy of my enemy is my friend. And it is a sad behaviour to define yourself solely by what you're against.

Imagine him pulling something regarding Israel lol

Varoufakis is an arse.

Yeah, he's a classic example of 'capitalism is the enemy, and my enemy's enemy is my friend'

Thank you for this. There is something really sad to see these former politicians going bad.

Ah, Yanis Varoufakis, the darling of the BBC for his balanced views for so many years. Looks like this is exactly the sort of balanced view that will get him invited once more, it's been a while I think.

Thank you for this rant. Very reassuring as I thought it was just me and I was becoming an ageing reactionary

He represents the pro-fascist left of Europe (It should be an oxymoron but all kinds of exceptions are made for Russia)

Unherd was founded in 2017 by conservative Tim Montgomerie and hedge fund manager Paul Marshall (who also founded GBNews).

Why is YV even a thing anymore? What are his credentials? He’s just some fucking guy.

Fucking Tankies, man. They boil my piss.

Varoufakis has never been right about anything ever. He has no credibility at all. He is a total irrelevance. He makes a modest living on the media spouting rubbish about subjects he knows absolutely nothing about.

Yanis is correct. The war is just feeding people in to the meat grinder at this point and we all know Ukraine is losing despite its proud defense.