E94: Russia vs NATO - is nuclear war on the horizon?

The proxy war in Ukraine between NATO and Russia has come into sharp focus in recent weeks. French President Macron refused to rule out sending troops to Ukraine, provoking a wide backlash. The German leader, Scholz, claimed that British soldiers are already fighting on the battlefield. Putin warned of nuclear war if NATO troops were sent to Ukraine; his leading critic, Navalny, died in a Russian jail. And a report in The New York Times revealed the CIA's decade-long operation of spy bases along Russia’s border.
As the US government is poised to deliver its largest military ‘aid’ package yet to support the Ukrainian war effort, and with European nations ramping up their assistance against the backdrop of an impending European election, the implications for Europe and the world loom large.
What do these latest developments mean? Is a direct confrontation between nuclear powers unavoidable, or does the possibility for a negotiated peace still exist?
Our panel, including Yanis Varoufakis, Erik Edman and Federico Dolce, investigates. Join us live and have your say!
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[@DiEM25official]

Hi everyone, for an unknown reason, our livestream got cut off at the very end so the last 3 minutes are missing from this video. You can watch the last 3 minutes here:

[@mariettestabel275]

Centurys of Wars trauma after Trauma. How can human suffering ever Stop?

[@MJGMJGMJG]

It's not a stalemate.

[@stavroskarageorgis4804]

Putin's stalled Ukraine war, Yani? In what parallel universe does that obtain?

[@kimojolly5101]

To avert climate catastrophe, the WORLD must cooperate. But cooperation is impossible in an environment where rich nations are literally murdering the poorer ones, and where wealth inequality is growing. In such a world, becoming rich is a matter of life and death. Therefore, the most important matter before humanity is to devise a non violent way of ending all wars. This must be addressed by 1) reducing wealth inequality immediately (such as through the provision of free university education, free internet, etc.) and 2) reducing the threat of military violence by creating an effective method of stopping wars in their tracks by non violent means. Organized global ostracism of offending nations is one means, and the generous supply of defensive weaponry to defending nations, is another. The global south must be brought on board by addressing their poverty first, and their military insecurity, second. And then we can work TOGETHER on the environment.

[@youtubearsivi9223]

Support from Turkey. Thanks for speaking.

[@mariettestabel275]

Hate has no Future. We Need Moral Courage to Stop Wars.

[@falcoperegrinus2292]

Welp, already messed up the facts

[@radobibic1010]

Stalemate seriously obviously you have no clue what you’re talking about

[@user-tj4cl4yl9x]

How many lives it must cost is no question for them because for them the war not really started yet

[@joeldwest]

Love love love Yanis and Diem.25.

[@brianwheeldon4643]

Amir, thanks for your important contribution. When you say so far there's been no moves to negotiate between the parties (Ukraine and Russia) this is wrong. Russia moved in 2022 not long after the war began with a written agreement to end the war, which Zelinsky's regime accepted. On taking it back to Kiev the Zelinsky regime was paid a visit by Boris Johnson with a message from the US-UK regime not to sign. If you sign we will stop providing you with bombs, missiles and funding. We know what happened. It's primarily the US regime who has driven Germany, France and therefore Europe to this murderous policy of never ending war and financing the Military and Financial Industrial Complex (MFIC) to continue pressuring Russia and in the process enriching the themselves and continue the US hegemony across the world's financial and military system. It's the billionaire class at work. Ir's a class war against the workers of the world, you and me. Exactly the same as the climate Crisis.

[@LiberNoster]

Laughing about the paradox of the US calling out for the ICJ and then by himself calling for "independence but neutrality" for the Ukraine...

[@okaytoletgo]

Thank you all. Some citations as to the Poll questions would help. I would like to feel closer to the populations and how their opinions are being shaped by the poll questions themselves. Thank you.

[@danishaffer2673]

It’s also like the Great War in that it’s an inter imperialist conflict with the working class caught in the middle, the proletariat bleed for bourgeois nationalism.

[@angelaparente4470]

Protective equipment instead of attacking equipment

[@user-lw7il2zx8u]

Imagine how rich the USA will be when the Europeans sending theirs best industry to the USA.

[@avsecvitja]

Stop Stoltenberg!

[@yabits]

Around the 55-minute mark, Yanis made a comment about a comment I had put in much earlier in the session about Ukraine's nuclear weapons -- and how they gave them up. I had to go back through the entire session to make sure he was referring to my comment and not someone else's.

[@andrejkalikar7057]

Danke!