Germany’s historic humiliation & Britain's financial trap

About this episode

Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau discuss Germany's UN Security Council voting failure and the UK's financial dependence on American capital.

In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau debunk conventional wisdom by analysing Germany’s shocking UN Security Council voting failure as a symptom of its diplomatic hubris and international unpopularity, while tearing down the illusion of British sovereignty to reveal how the United Kingdom has become a financial vassal completely trapped by its dependence on leveraged American capital. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Guests: Yanis Varoufakis, Wolfgang Munchau

Topics covered

• Germany
• UK
• financial dependence
• diplomatic failure
• sovereignty
• international relations

Keywords

• Germany
• UK
• UN Security Council
• financial vassal
• diplomatic hubris
• sovereignty
• leveraged capital

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: UN Security Council

Places: Germany, United Kingdom, American

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