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Andreu Movtxan reports below :

And in case readers cannot believe it, here is a link :

Yanis Varoufakis dances to viral techno-hit named after him in Russia

And thanks to Yuliya Yurchenko, who observes :

While Russian FPV drones crossing the Dnieper hunt civilians at bus stops in Nikopol and Kherson, while yet more one-and-a-half-ton glide bombs fall on apartment blocks in Kramatorsk, while Russian anti-war socialists rot in Mordovian prisons… the Greek “anti-imperialist” politician Yanis Varoufakis is dancing on the stage at a Moscow investment forum to a techno track repeating his own name.

How does he manage to be like this? One has to be real human mold to behave this way. I could end the post here. But I’ll add a bit more.

Yanis Varoufakis briefly took Putin’s dick out of his mouth to explain why he once again traveled to the capital of a warring empire. In his article he says:

“…In the same way the United States can say an emphatic ‘No!’ to the right of Mexico to deploy Chinese weaponry in Tijuana, Russia also has the right to seek security by demanding, as it has done for three decades, that NATO stay out of Georgia and Ukraine?”

Do I understand correctly that if the United States invaded Mexico and hunted Mexican civilians daily with FPV drones because Mexico tried to move away from the U.S. sphere of influence, Varoufakis would likewise travel to an investment forum in Washington and dance there to techno, defending the U.S. right “to seek security”?

What Varoufakis is doing is asking Europe and the world to “understand” Russia’s right to a “buffer zone” into which it can invade whenever it sees fit. A right to Lebensraum. And for whom? For a country that no one attacked. For a country whose internationally recognized borders are not disputed by anyone. For a country with the largest nuclear arsenal in the world.

At the same time, he is asking Europe and the world to accept that Ukraine has no right “to seek security” through international guarantees. Not through Article 5, not through the presence of allied troops, not through any mechanism whatsoever. And this is a country facing enormous territorial claims. A country whose lands have already been occupied and annexed. A country suffering the largest land invasion since Hitler’s times. A country that voluntarily gave up nuclear weapons. A nation whose very existence is denied by its neighbor… No — for it, Varoufakis sees no right “to seek security.”

I sincerely wish Varoufakis would spend at least a week living in Kherson or Nikopol. And explain to people at bus stops there that FPV drone safari is merely Russia’s legitimate right “to seek security.” Nothing more. Just something to be understood. And if an FPV drone hits him at that moment, I hope he will accept it with the same deep understanding of “Russia’s security concerns.”

No, actually – scratch that. I sincerely want him, on his next visit to Moscow, to try going out to protest on Red Square – the way he goes to Syntagma Square in Athens – with a picket in support of left-wing political prisoners. Boris Kagarlitsky, for example. And then, following local “tradition,” to end up sitting on a bottle in a police station. With the same humble understanding of “security concerns.”

Andriy Movchan is a Ukrainian left wing activist who was forced to leave Ukraine due to political persecution by the far-right. He now resides in Barcelona where he devotees himself to media activism, art and journalism. His work focuses on Soviet and post-Sovet context. He can be reached at andriyko22@gmail.com