Yanis #Varoufakis posted a long apology of his trip to #Russia this month. The full article is paywalled but the freely available fragment demonstrates clearly the scale of Varoufakis corruption - he’s repeating Moscow talking points, verbatim:
Since the invasion of Ukraine, Europe has had only two options regarding its stance toward Russia: forever war or offering Russia a sensible peace and security pact.
Whose “invasion of Ukraine”? If Varoufakis answered this question honestly for himself, the rest of the article would look like the nonsense it actually is. Because it was not some abstract force from the deep space that invaded Ukraine but the very Russia that he wants to offer a “sensible peace and security pact” a moment later.
More, precisely it’s not him who’s making the offer - he expects “Europe” to make offer to Russia, which is preceded by a clear threat of “forever war”.
https://unherd.com/2026/04/why-i-went-to-moscow/
Varoufakis simply replays the old trick of Soviet and Russian apologists of all times: presenting Russian imperialism as some kind of natural force that simply cannot be controlled by Russian leaders. As Varoufakis presents it, it was not Putin who made the choice to invade Ukraine in 2022 (a moronic one, as everyone admits), it just kind of “happened”. And thus it’s not up to Europe to “offer Russia a sensible peace pact” or “forever war”. But again, it would be not Russia’s choice to wage the “forever war”, it just has to. Because why? Varoufakis doesn’t explain.
But I can - Russian imperialism believes in its inherent right to own Central and Eastern European nations, regardless of international agreements or pacts it signed before, and the least it’s worried about the choice of the nations in question. “Security” for Russia means an inherent right to interfere in internal affairs of these countries, including their choice of street names, ownership of their industry or economic alliances they belong to. This “security” also automatically includes Russia’s right to invade, which is precisely why Russian leadership in 2010 presented air-defence (!) batteries in Poland as “escalation”, just as it presented defensive fortifications in Ukraine in 2019. It’s logical - their defense interferes with Russia’s offensive plans, therefore it’s “security issue” for Russia.
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