Ivan Krastev
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322 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 8 Jul
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And his message is, no, no, no, I don't want you to give to me.
I want to take it from you.
And this is the story where Europeans understand that it cannot work like this.
Because paradoxically, he is the society response also.
What he does not understand is the pride of others.
Danish people are proud people.
By the way, if he was playing a different way, there was a very good article in Foreign Affairs by a former American diplomat, how he can take Greenland, but he can do it in four or five years with investments and doing this and that, and basically talking to the Greenland population and Greenland elite.
But for him, it doesn't matter.
For him, it should come
fast.
It should come for July 4th.
It should be used for the midterm elections.
So in a certain way, this is the symbolism of this, and this is where I'm afraid he's playing symbolic games.
Europeans do not know how to play symbolic games because this is not where we are from, but he's totally underestimating the capacity of Europe not to cooperate.
We have a talent for this, I should agree very much.
But this is a very interesting question because I do believe that there are people around him who still believe that the very important is to try to get Russia to decouple from China, to make a deal.
And their thinking is if there is not European Union and if there is no NATO, why Russia should not be America's best friend.
And all these people negotiate and they see this and that.
And don't forget, most of these people, they don't come from diplomacy and they don't come from security.
They come from trade.
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