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 this is why for them it's very difficult to understand somebody like Putin, who is totally kind of immersed in history and pride and story and economic argument is not the most important.
And I don't believe this is the real issue.
The people around him, I don't believe that
I don't know, is Trump himself in this?
They believe that European Union is bad because it is big, that if you have 27 small countries, you're going to do much easier with them, that for America is going to be easier to do it.
By the way, not understanding that if this is going to happen, America should try to manage a space which is going to be so both economically security and politically
that it's really going to be an issue, particularly for this administration that does not want American money to be spent outside.
Europe is going to be a nightmare.
I do believe that somebody should try to show President Trump films about the disintegration of the Soviet Union.
and so on.
Disintegrations is not a funny game.
It's not a funny game.
But of course, there is also this other wing of the Republican Party, and I do believe this is why people like Macron and von der Leyen and of course Merz, they understand that when it comes to Greenland,
They are not facing America.
They are not even facing the Republican Party.
They are facing Trump and small group around him.
They do believe that even in this administration, there are people for whom NATO is a value, and losing NATO is against American national interest.
So this is why they are going to be, in my view, much more assertive than in other situations.
But do you know what is interesting?
Part of the pressure coming from this politics is that you cannot distinguish between important and unimportant.
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