I like a lot about Yanis but when he talks like this he appears on the same level of consciousness as the squeaky schoolboy Owen Jones who similarly is fond of reiterating lists of the righteousness of his opinion.

what does it even mean when he says: "I opposed..." about all the selected Western enemies demonized mainly for not letting Western agency crush their sovereignty?
it's not like the West moved on them for infringing civil rights or murder because if the West cared about human rights and murder they certainly wouldn't have Bonesaw of Saud as an ally not the other Arab kingdoms run by despots with deep prisons and they wouldn't have supported armed and aided the genocide and mass murder by Israel.

He must know that these are all therefore selected targets where negative press is elaborated and engineered into a powerful media demonology which bears little resemblance to the reality.

He must know the endless chapters of the book of demonology, the: " weapons of mass destruction, the rape viagra to soldiers...the chemical attacks on civilians, most of the mass murders " killing his own people" etc: were faked propaganda or false flags and have been effectively proven to be so over the years.

He must know that to say you "oppose" these leaders is to support their removal from power: He must know that he supported that whilst most of these leaders had a large part of indeed the majority of their countrymen onside. That most of the Syrians during the "civil war"
/ attempted western & Turkey backed Jihadi coup supported Assad for example was freely admitted by the head choppers othemselves as likewise Ghadaffi who would never have fell without western bombs and secret western support for Jihadi terrorists.

He must know that the mechanism for that removal from power is controlled by western arms money and propaganda and therefore to oppose these countries leaders is to validate the very NATO US funded operations he says he ostensibly opposed.

What's most annoying though is his naievity: like Jones he boxes himself into a "Condemnathon" of his own righteous opinion which is not of any worth at all. It's obscenity when you see that twat Piers Morgan inflicting it routinely on others: "Do you condemn Hamas...October 7th blah blah." But Yanis does it to himself here.

His "opposition" to these figures meant nothing to anyone aside from aquiesing to the principle: given moral weight by the demonology we invented ourselves, that we westerners were righteous and therefore could aid their removal and thus interfere in the country.

What we can say quite unequivocally is that every time one of these leaders had been ousted with our profoundly moral help...it has involved murder and mayhem on a grand scale and that they all without exception have involved massive destruction of the infrastructure of the nation and all to the detriment of its citizenry.

But of course the perpetrators have short memories and with no apparent skill at seeing repeat patterns, Yanis needs to keep condemning...

https://nitter.poast.org/yanisvaroufakis/status/1865804288338907600#m


Yanis Varoufakis
@yanisvaroufakis
Dec 8
I opposed Milosevic and NATO’s bombing on Yugoslavia
I opposed Saddam and the US invasion of Iraq
I opposed the Taliban and the US invasion of Afghanistan
I opposed Qaddafi and the US-French-UK invasion of Libya
I opposed Putin and the US-EU proxy never-ending was in Ukraine
I opposed Assad and the US-Israeli-backed Jihadists that invaded Syria

And some people call me inconsistent at worst a US stooge. C’ est la vie in a world unwilling to adopt a principled stance