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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From this point of view, the legitimacy of Trump paradoxically comes from the fact that he's the nightmare for the conspiracy theorist.
Because before America goes to Venezuela,
Talk about democracy, people suspect it's about oil.
And then he comes and said, no, no, it's only about oil.
It's about oil.
You cannot be conspiracy theorist anymore unless you believe that he goes there for democracy and just talks about oil.
Exactly.
It's like, what?
But what he's not understanding is that hypocrisy, of course, was awful and many of the people hated it.
But also hypocrisy is a constraint.
Because I'm saying that I go for democracy, I should do certain things.
And there are certain things that I will not do.
And from this point of view, this is in my view changing dramatically because what Trump does not understand, he is every revolutionary leader, does not respect borders.
Talking to the French judges, for sure.
Other American diplomats have been talking probably to French judges during the Cold War too.
But normally, you are telling to the people, do it because we're going to invite you on our party.
And his major story is, I'm doing just for the Americans.
I don't care about any of you.
And this is an interesting story.
This is a major change.
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