#229 Resolution, Russia, and Ukraine (with Yanis Varoufakis)

Under The Skin with Russell Brand

Russell Brand

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🗓️ 12 March 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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This week I’m honoured to be joined again by economist and politician Yanis Varoufakis. Yanis served as the Greek Minister of Finance for the first half of 2015, and in February of the following year launched the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25). He is an incredible voice on The Left who fights with passion for a better and more fair world. I wished to speak with Yanis in light of the current conflict in Ukraine. I wanted to know what insight Yanis might have on the types of resolutions that could be proposed, his opinion on what is happening, and why it’s happening, and what we need to do going forward. It’s a very important and moving conversation and I would like to hear your thoughts on it, too. Please email us [email protected] with "Under The Skin" in the subject heading. More Info: Yanis Varoufakis’s Work: https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu My meditation podcast, Above the Noise, is out now, only on Luminary. I release guided meditations every Wednesday. Please check it out: http://luminary.link/meditate Elites are taking over! Our only hope is to form our own. To learn more join my cartel here https://www.russellbrand.com/join and get weekly bulletins too incendiary for anything but your private inbox. (*not a euphemism) Subscribe to my YouTube channel, I post four videos a week including video clips from these episodes! https://www.youtube.com/russellbrand Subscribe to my YouTube side-channel for more wellness and spirituality: https://www.youtube.com/c/AwakeningWithRussell Instagram: http://instagram.com/russellbrand/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/rustyrockets

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Under the Skin from Luminary. This week I spoke with Yannis Varifakis.
0:04.9	Yannis Varifakis is an economist and politician who served as the Greek minister of finance
0:09.2	from January to July 2015. In February 2016 he launched a democracy in Europe movement,
0:14.5	2025, DM, 25. Now that Under the Skin is on Apple Podcast please leave a review there
0:20.5	it helps us and we'll read them all out. If you'd like to listen to the rest of this podcast
0:23.7	and all of my weekly Under the Skin podcast all you have to do is subscribe to Luminary
0:27.3	on Apple Podcast or download the Luminary app. In this part we talk about Ukraine and Russia,
0:33.0	the war and a very beautiful letter that he was sent by Russian people. It's a very moving part
0:41.6	of the podcast. I hope you enjoy it. Trying to achieve equality with the annihilation of category
0:48.8	is not successful. That's exactly right. We're in this era where it turns out we were never
0:54.7	as fast as it looked like an idea. What's beneath the surface of people with my ideas that define
1:01.3	our time, the history we're told? Welcome to Russell Brand. Under the Skin. Yannis, thank you for
1:09.8	joining me on Under the Skin. Well thank you Russell. We need to do this. It's, you know,
1:16.0	it's a dirty job so let's go to do it. Talk about Ukraine. We've got to talk about Ukraine.
1:21.1	We've got to talk about a new approach to populist politics. You're more experienced than almost
1:27.0	anybody. What a version of left wing populism might look like, particularly in success.
1:33.8	We have to talk about, like I'll just tell you firstly where it was, you know, what's sort of been
1:40.2	going on with me and like, and my own, because I feel like perhaps you'll give you some sort of
1:44.6	different platform because I know this is something you're discussing at length and it falls
1:47.7	upon you a lot to discuss this stuff. And thank you again for coming on. I love you coming on.
1:51.4	I love you in general. And thanks for coming on for the third time. So Yannis, right? This is what,
1:57.6	like, you know, obviously, like obviously when there's an invasion of a country, you feel like,
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