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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I don't believe that the real problem is that the border between democracy and authoritarianism is the least protected border in the world.
No, no.
I'm not going to say it again because probably this time it's not going to be so spectacular.
You know, the repetition is always a problem.
Because one of the interesting story about the Cold War was that because of the nature of the Cold War, the America has to basically redefine itself as the free world, very hypocritically here and there.
But without the Soviet Union, of course, American just was not going to be as important for America because just was important because it was forbidden in the Soviet Union.
And secondly, because basically the Soviets believed that future belongs to them, America should become also very much future-oriented.
I'm saying this because I also believe one of the reasons the Cold War never became hot was that both sides believed that the future was on their side.
This is why they believe that it's better to fight tomorrow when they're going to be stronger.
What makes me really nervous about the world in which we are living is that you have basically people who fear the future.
They fear for demographic reasons, for technological reasons, all the time somebody's going to replace us.
And when you fear the future, you believe that if there are going to be a fight, better fight today because tomorrow we're going to be weaker.
And this explains this kind of a strange combination of, on one level,
This kind of a trailer is about American power, which was real.
Listen, what happened in Venezuela was the operation that took the Russians four years and they cannot finish it.
Americans did it for four hours.
But on the other side, there is no future perspective.
And this is why people are becoming so anxious.
And this is why you cannot project your life.
And I don't believe this.
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