Ivan Krastev
speaker
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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He's envying the Chinese.
Totally agree.
He's very important because for all this talk about Cold War, we believe that the most important thing that happened in 1989 was what happened in Berlin, the end of the fall of the wall.
In a certain way, if you see these people, they identify 1989 what happened in South Africa.
Suddenly, you have a majority which is different than us.
By the way, it's much easier to become from communist anti-communist than from white to become black and the other way around.
This kind of a story that there are too many people- I've seen movies about that.
I think that's true.
Yeah.
There are too many people not like us and democracy is about numbers.
Here comes the fear of democracy because democracy at the end of the day is counting.
And the fact that we are going to be outvoted, this created this kind of anxiety about democracy.
And this is not by accident that most of these people, they're not so much talking how you're going to govern the world, but how you try to run out of the world, how to escape.
We should go to Mars.
And by the way, why Greenland is so interesting?
Greenland is important because you have everything there, but no people.
In a certain way, you have the resources.
I don't believe that we should go on another planet.
This is part, particularly when it comes from the Silicon Valley type of an imagination, because this world is becoming kind of unlivable for us.
But there is some important paradox.
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