On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Lord Skidelsky, one of the greatest economic historians of the 21st century and award-winning biographer of John Maynard Keynes. He discusses why the UK’s policy towards Ukraine is a shambles based on lies, Donald Trump’s victory leaving the UK and Europe without a plausible policy for the Ukraine proxy war, why his opinion of opposing Britain’s fuelling of the proxy war is rare in Britain’s political class and the media, and why Britain’s policy has nowhere left to go after climbing the escalation ladder to nuclear war. He also discusses Russia’s consistent opposition to NATO expansion after the collapse of the USSR and the myth that NATO is a purely defensive organisation, as well as the cliche narrative that the Russian invasion of Ukraine was ‘unprovoked’ and ‘full-scale’. Lord Skidelsky also touches on how the UK’s perspective of WW2 skews its policy towards Russia, Sir Keir Starmer’s and European leaders’ move towards military-Keynesianism, the dismissing of nuclear war as simply ‘Putin is bluffing’ by NATO leaders, and much more.
