Yanis Varoufakis
speaker
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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Like, you know, things that Scott Besant had said and written.
You know, the Mar-a-Lago, famous Mar-a-Lago paper.
It's clear what the strategy is.
Trump looks at the last 60 years
And what he sees is a period that some people refer to it as the period of globalization.
Others refer to it as the neoliberal period or the globalist period.
It's a period that started in 1971 with Richard Nixon.
When Richard Nixon and his team, not himself personally, blew up the Bretton Woods system.
So why did that happen?
It happened because the United States ceased to be a surplus country.
It slipped into a deficit position.
And, you know, Henry Kissinger, who was part of Nixon's team then, even before he became foreign minister, before his move to the State Department, when he was still at the National Security Council, he...
put a very simple question to his team and said, well, now we're a deficit country, how can we maintain our hegemony?
And the answer is blow up the Bretton Woods system, use the dollar as a weapon, devalue the dollar while enhancing its reserve currency status, its hegemonic status.
So, you know, Trump looks at that and says, I want to do this again because the Nixon shock is petering out.
After 2008, American hegemony is being seriously contested.
I want to give it another 12.
And I'm going to do it in a way that will make me and my mates lots of money as well.
So, you know, the devaluation of the dollar is not a failure.
It is an aim.
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