Ivan Krastev
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322 appearances
3 recordings
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 8 Jul
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And the paradox is the following.
Look at some of the countries that he likes a lot.
Emirates, the Gulf countries.
Listen, this is the country with the highest number of immigrants in the world.
So, it's not about migration, it's about migration with rights.
If they're going to come simply as a laborer- Yeah, those are workers, laborers, they don't have full rights.
Exactly.
And this is in my view the story, and I don't believe this is very famous.
In 1953, during the anti-communist protest in East Berlin, Brecht has this famous poem when he said, if the government does not like the people, they should elect the new people.
And this now suddenly you have a government who believe that they should elect people because otherwise the situation is getting out of control.
So, migrants are fine.
By the way, this is also true for Europe.
People normally are going to say Viktor Orban is very much against foreigners.
Do you know that in 2018, Hungary was the country that gave the most labor permits in the European Union?
The problem is about you can share...
labor market, what you are not going to share is power.
This understanding of democracy where citizenship goes with ethnicity, with race and things like this, this is changing.
But is it also not true that part of the strengths of Trump came from the fact that for many people around the world, disorder was disorder?
And for example, his major point was, I'm against liberal hypocrisy.
We are talking about democracy, but in many places it was not about democracy.
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