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Mother Russia’s Children
Foreign Podicy - September 02, 2022 18:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsIlan Berman is Senior Vice President of the American Foreign Policy Council in Washington. He’s an expert on regional security in Russia, Central Asia, and the Middle East. He’s consulted for the U.S. Departments of State and Defense, and for the intelligence community. He’s the author of quite ...
Michael Gordon’s Wars
Foreign Podicy - August 27, 2022 00:52 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsHost Cliff May says Wall Street Journal‘s Michael Gordon is, “without a doubt, one of the best reporters I’ve ever known — and I’ve known many reporters over many years.” Decades ago, they sat in the same bullpen at The New York Times’ Washington bureau, where Cliff says Michael, “covered defen...
After the Fall: Lessons Learned and Unlearned in Afghanistan
Foreign Podicy - August 19, 2022 20:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsOne year ago, the U.S. military, under orders from the White House, allowed the Taliban to re-take control of Afghanistan. The withdrawal was poorly planned. The evacuation of Americans and American allies was chaotic and, for some — including 13 American service members — fatal. One year late...
Connecting the Dots from Tehran to Gaza
Foreign Podicy - August 12, 2022 18:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsIsrael’s latest armed conflict was with a group that calls itself Islamic Jihad, or Palestinian Islamic Jihad, or PIJ. It’s supported, armed, and trained by the rulers of the Islamic Republic of Iran. To learn more about this American-designated terrorist organization, how badly it was set bac...
Ukraine, Turkey, and NATO: U.S. Interests in Europe
Foreign Podicy - August 10, 2022 15:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsThe United States has vital economic and national security interests in deterring aggression and maintaining peace and security in Europe. But almost six months ago on February 24, a clearly undeterred Vladimir Putin launched the largest invasion on the European continent since WWII. As the Ukr...
The Life and Death of Emir al Zawahiri
Foreign Podicy - August 05, 2022 23:18 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsAyman al Zawahiri, emir of Al Qaeda, is no more. He was reportedly on the balcony of what he thought was a “safe house” in one of Kabul’s more upscale neighborhoods when two missiles fired by the CIA from a Hellfire drone ended his life — almost 21 years after the terrorist attacks of September ...
Joe Biden in the Jewish State and the Saudi Kingdom
Foreign Podicy - July 30, 2022 02:30 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsA couple of weeks ago, Joe Biden went to Israel and Saudi Arabia. This was not a summer vacation. The president had goals. Did he achieve any? Did he set any back? Foreign Podicy host Clifford D. May poses these and other questions to Michael Singh and Hussain Abdul-Hussain. Michael Singh Mic...
The Battles of Britain
Foreign Podicy - July 22, 2022 22:27 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsGreat Britain is in the midst of a leadership crisis. The decline and fall of the always-entertaining Boris Johnson has led to a stormy contest among Conservative Party politicians to replace him, and the Labour Party now has a chance to replace the Conservatives. It’s complicated as are the c...
The Lands in Between
Foreign Podicy - July 15, 2022 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsIn addition to following Russia’s brutal war against Ukraine, host Cliff May has also been trying to understand what’s going on in "the lands between" – the lands between Russia and Western Europe; lands that Vladimir Putin would like also to include in his empire or, failing that, in his sphere...
Sic Semper Tyrannis
Foreign Podicy - July 08, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsProfessor Waller R. Newell is a political theorist and historian of ideas. He specializes in the history of tyranny from ancient times to the present. He’s written about Rousseau, Marx, Nietzsche, and Heidegger. He’s studied the French Revolution, Communism, National Socialism, and contemporary ...
The Midway Measures Trap
Foreign Podicy - July 01, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsDecades ago, Richard Bernstein opened Time magazine’s first bureau in Beijing. He was later New York Times bureau chief at the UN, in Paris, and in Berlin. He spent a few years as the Times’ National Cultural Correspondent and as a Times book critic. He’s also the author of a list of incisive b...
Turkey and America: Can This Marriage Be Saved?
Foreign Podicy - June 24, 2022 22:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsNot so long ago, Turkey was widely regarded as the bridge between the Occident and the Orient, between Christian Europe and the Muslim Middle East. Turkey separated mosque and state. Turkey was a NATO member. Turkey was economically dynamic despite not having oil. Turkey seemed to be democratizi...
Nonproliferation, Biodefense, and National Security
Foreign Podicy - June 03, 2022 08:15 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsJackie Wolcott previously served as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations in Vienna and as U.S. representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency. Anthony Ruggiero is the former White House National Security Council Senior Director for Counterproliferation and Biodefense. Together, ...
NATO and Its Discontents
Foreign Podicy - May 27, 2022 21:36 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsThe North Atlantic Treaty Organization, better known by its acronym, NATO, was founded in 1949 to contain Soviet expansionism. President Truman told a joint session of Congress: “It must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed ...
Deal or No Deal: Confronting the Islamic Republic of Iran the Reagan Way
Foreign Podicy - May 20, 2022 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsFDD experts have worked for more than a decade on the threat posed by the Islamic Republic of Iran. As part of a multi-pronged strategy, FDD has shared nonpartisan research and analyses with policymakers, lawmakers, and the business community. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is slated t...
Why They Fight
Foreign Podicy - May 13, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsRussia's war in Ukraine underscores, among other things, the urgency of boosting Taiwan's military readiness. Meanwhile, many Americans remain bitterly divided on what role of the U.S. should be in the world, and, therefore, on how strong America's military power ought to be. To discuss these a...
An Israel Briefing
Foreign Podicy - May 06, 2022 17:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsRussia ravages Ukraine. China eyes Taiwan. North Korea prepares a nuclear test. And negotiations for a new — and worse — iteration of President Obama’s deeply-flawed Iran nuclear deal remain on life-support. The rules-based, American-led order is hanging in the balance — and although they wer...
Why America Can’t Be Denmark
Foreign Podicy - April 22, 2022 22:29 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsCan there be anyone not shocked and appalled by Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine – a war intended to extinguish Ukraine as an independent nation; a war in which it appears that war crimes are not just being tolerated by the Kremlin but actively encouraged; a war intended to establish that the onl...
Disinformation Wars
Foreign Podicy - April 15, 2022 17:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratings"A well-informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny." Thomas Jefferson said that or something close to it. But what happens when tyrants misinform us or — worse — disinform us? To help us understand disinformation and its consequences, Foreign Podicy host Cliff May is joined by three...
“Pivoting” and Other Foreign Policy Delusions
Foreign Podicy - April 08, 2022 17:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsThere’s a dangerous — even reckless — new Iran nuclear accord that appears to be nearing the finish line in Vienna. Meanwhile, the Biden White House is struggling to wield the right set of policy tools to bring Vladimir Putin’s war of aggression in Ukraine to end. The White House wants to put bo...
Why MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) Is No Longer Reassuring
Foreign Podicy - April 01, 2022 23:54 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsCentral to America's strategy in the Cold War was the principle of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD). The idea was to make nuclear warfare a lose-lose proposition — a game you just can't win. Whichever side was attacked would retain the capability to counterattack. Both sides would end up devas...
Mike Waltz: Warrior Diplomat and Congressman
Foreign Podicy - March 25, 2022 20:13 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsMichael G. Waltz served as a Green Beret in the Middle East and Africa, and commanded a Special Forces company in the mountains of Afghanistan. He served as a counterterrorism advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney, and director for Afghanistan policy in the office of the Secretary of Defense. ...
The Fog of War and Diplomacy
Foreign Podicy - March 18, 2022 20:03 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsRussia’s brutal war continues, and President Zelensky is asking for more assistance as the people of Ukraine attempt to exercise their right to defend themselves from an imperialist aggressor seeking to end their existence as an independent nation. The Biden administration’s efforts to revive B...
A War in Ukraine, A Battle in Vienna, and Israel on the Edge
Foreign Podicy - March 11, 2022 22:07 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsAs Vladimir Putin’s troops ravage Ukraine, his envoy in Vienna is steering the U.S. nuclear negotiations with the Islamic Republic of Iran. Israelis, who know all too well what it means to have bigger neighbors determined to erase your nation from the map, are trying to bring an end to the war ...
Sailor, Soldier, Spy: Three Perspectives on Putin’s War on Ukraine
Foreign Podicy - March 04, 2022 21:31 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsVladimir Putin is waging a war of aggression, a war of conquest, an imperialist war. This should not come as a surprise. It’s long been evident that he views himself as a modern czar, a Caesar (which is where the word “czar” comes from), an emperor whose mission is to restore — and, if he can, e...
Vladimir the Terrible
Foreign Podicy - February 26, 2022 01:08 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsAs feared and anticipated, Vladimir Putin sent his troops over the border into Ukraine – an act of aggression and a blatant violation of international law. If Ukrainians, over the days ahead display courage, defiance, and determination, can they stop Putin from stripping them of their right to i...
Enemies and Allies, Villains and Heroes
Foreign Podicy - February 18, 2022 16:35 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsJoel C. Rosenberg is a New York Times-bestselling author. He’s written 15 novels and four non-fiction books with five million copies in print. Among his readers and fans: George W. Bush, Mike Pence, and Mike Pompeo. He also has a second vocation as what you might call a religious-political acti...
The Army and the Indo-Pacific
Foreign Podicy - February 11, 2022 15:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsBeijing is conducting the most ambitious military modernization and expansion effort in the history of the People’s Republic of China. And the more powerful the People’s Liberation Army becomes, the more aggressively Beijing is behaving. Given the vast distances and expanses of ocean, when Amer...
Russia and Ukraine: On the Brink of War
Foreign Podicy - February 04, 2022 22:32 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsVladimir Putin is threatening to erase the sovereignty, independence, and self-determination of Ukraine. What caused this crisis? What are the likely consequences not only for Russia and Ukraine but for the U.S., Europe, and NATO? How would a war between Russia and Ukraine turn out? What lesso...
The Worst of Times
Foreign Podicy - January 28, 2022 19:50 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsThe media have changed a lot in recent years – not for the better. The New York Times certainly isn’t the newspaper it used to be. Ashley Rindsberg has written a book making the case that, even in its best days, The Times often failed to live up to its reputation as the newspaper of record, pu...
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