Yanis Varoufakis
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1,142 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 3 May
Yanis Varoufakis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They just didn't have it.
It wasn't available.
One that they did send had to be done back for servicing.
So...
You know, that was a strategy, Donald Trump disparaging the Europeans as useless, militarily.
And therefore saying that, you know, NATO is a great drain on the United States and forcing the Europeans to pay more.
Since you can't do the work, the defensive or offensive work, and you rely on Americans to do it, you pay you rascals.
That was a kind of position by Donald Trump and his administration.
Now that he's calling upon the Europeans to come and help him clear the states of Hormuz, it is as if he's admitting that they do have a power which they are, however, not using.
So he has to, you know, it shows desperation on the part of Donald Trump and his administration.
He had a strategy which made some sense of being dismissive to the Europeans.
Now he's contradicting himself.
Look, the future of NATO is...
severely circumscribed and darkened by what has happened.
I think that the belief, the faith in some kind of alignment that is structurally constructed between the United States and the European Union, I think that's gone.
And that's gone independently of who is in the White House.
It's going to be eroded.
I think it's a good thing, personally.
Because it was never in the interest of Europe.
In the end, it wasn't in the interest of the people of the United States.
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