Fareed Zakaria
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2,161 appearances
8 recordings
5 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 5 Jun
Fareed Zakaria’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We have no check, no constraints.
I think at some level, like the power has gone to our heads and the power has gone particularly to somebody like Trump's head.
Look at the way he treats other countries, right?
The only reason you can do that is because you're so powerful.
You're unconstrained.
You don't have to worry that they're going to go over to the communist side.
Like there's something here that feels very much like it's about the arrogance of power, the ability to act in unconstrained ways.
And I kind of wonder whether...
you know, the reason we, when we were powerful in the past, there was this check, there was this sense in which, you know, you had to put forward your best front.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
The cultural divide that has developed now is one in which I think for somebody like J.D.
Vance, Russia are actually the good guys, right?
As you said, they're white, they're Christian.
In fact, Putin often makes the point of Putin is culturally a neoconservative.
I mean, he's against all the licentiousness of Western liberalism.
So, by the way, is Xi Jinping.
And it's why they don't like Europe.
They don't want any part of that.
Exactly.
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