Ivan Krastev

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322 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 8 Jul

Ivan Krastev’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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and to basically see only the things that you know from the United States.

Here are the Europeans, and they're like the Democrats, and they're like this, and they're like that.

Paradoxically, he does not have much interest in other places, particularly when it comes to the allies.

This is this strange combination of one level person with a strong imperial imagination, and on the other side, incredibly provincial.

So even when he decides to remake the UN, what he's doing with the peace board, it's a golf club.

You go with a billion- Billion dollar entrance fee.

Yeah, but it is a golf club.

So in a sense, institutionally, the golf club is the way you basically see the world being run.

Right.

And that's how they do business.

No, but also in a certain way, he views as hostile everything that he does not understand.

No, but it's true.

And to be honest, I have a sympathy with him.

Like dogs.

Yeah.

European Union is not easy to understand.

And in a certain way, in the European Union, what is totally absent is the possibility to have a politics based on a personal relationship.

Because having a personal relationship with whom?

And as a result of it, for him, everything that's coming is just bureaucracy constraints, everything that he hates about America, he sees there.

But also what is interesting in the case of Greenland is that Denmark is basically telling him before, we're going to give you what he wants.

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