{"id":312464,"date":"2026-01-26T12:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T12:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=312464"},"modified":"2026-01-24T07:36:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T07:36:42","slug":"an-abomination-yanis-varoufakis-on-trumps-board-of-peace-threat-to-democratic-world-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2026\/01\/an-abomination-yanis-varoufakis-on-trumps-board-of-peace-threat-to-democratic-world-order\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAn Abomination\u201d: Yanis Varoufakis on Trump\u2019s \u201cBoard of Peace\u201d &#038; Threat to Democratic World Order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>22 Jan 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">We speak to Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis about the United States under Donald Trump and its attempts to reshape the post-World War II international consensus. \u201c<em>Trump has all his work done for him by placid European centrists who went along with the policy of trashing international law and creating the circumstances for him to create his private company and say, &#8216;Right, I&#8217;m taking over the world,\u2019\u201d<\/em> laments Varoufakis as he draws a connection between Trump\u2019s pay-to-play diplomacy and the mercantile policies of European colonial powers. Varoufakis comments on plans for the reoccupation of Gaza by the U.S.-led \u201cBoard of Peace,\u201d which signed its founding charter this week; Trump\u2019s designs on the Danish territory of Greenland; and European leaders\u2019 ineffectual, largely symbolic resistance to Trump\u2019s assertion of U.S. supremacy on the world stage.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u201cAn Abomination\u201d: Yanis Varoufakis on Trump\u2019s \u201cBoard of Peace\u201d &amp; Threat to Democratic World Order\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CFtfBxVTqTU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><em>Yanis Varoufakis, a member of the Greek Parliament and<\/em> <em>a former finance minister of Greece, is leader of the MeRA25 Party,<\/em> <em>professor of economics at the University of Athens, and co-founder of DiEM25 (Democracy in Europe Movement). He is the author of \u2018<\/em>And the Weak Suffer What They Must? Europe\u2019s Crisis and America\u2019s Economic Future\u2019; \u2018<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/books\/adults-in-the-room-my-battle-with-the-european-and-american-deep-establishment\/9780374538057\" >Adults in the Room: My Battle with the European and American Deep Establishment<\/a><\/span>\u2019;<em> and, most recently, the novel<\/em> \u2018<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/books\/another-now\/9781612199573\" >Another Now<\/a><\/span><em>\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTrump has all his work done for him by placid European centrists who went along with the policy of trashing international law and creating the circumstances for him to create his private company and say, &#8216;Right, I&#8217;m taking over the world,\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[3843,1126,1050,249,70,3524,1160],"class_list":["post-312464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-depth-videos","tag-board-of-peace","tag-hegemony","tag-imperialism","tag-trump","tag-usa","tag-utopia","tag-world-order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312465,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312464\/revisions\/312465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}