Christiane Amanpour

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4,556 appearances 24 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 2d ago

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Christiane Amanpour Presents: The Ex Files · Is Trump making America weaker? · 15 Sep 2026 podcast

So let's uh let's talk about the big issue 'cause we started by asking um voice-verified

Is this whole thing, is Trump, is Hegseth in the Pentagon, uh, making America weaker? voice-verified

It is still the superpower, it is still the most capable military in the world, uh, although there are these uh, you know, ammunition shortages, which is quite dangerous. voice-verified

But nonetheless, it has done a number of successful things in just this last year, whether you agree or not, it managed to go in and lift a unwanted dictator from Venezuela. voice-verified

Venezuela, they managed to voice-verified

Whether you believe it's it's legal or not, they managed to wipe out, you know, several uh well, the top leadership uh in Iran by militarily uh essentially execu well, killing them uh in in in those bombing raids. voice-verified

And they've managed to extract two pilots who did go down in Iran in the early days of the war. voice-verified

So people point to certain highly voice-verified

uh difficult and and proficiencies that the American military still can do. voice-verified

But on the big picture, for instance, David French, you probably read uh his op ed he's a former military officer himself and he is really quite interesting on these military matters. voice-verified

He says it's difficult to fathom the damage President Trump is doing to America's national security. voice-verified

He's making our nation more vulnerable than it's ever been at any time since the cloudiest days of the Cold War. voice-verified

Partly because of these wars, Jamie, but partly also, and we'll get into this, because of Hegseth, presumably at Trump's behest, completely overhauling the Pentagon to basically remove and fire and deny promotion and otherwise generally preclude some of the really important um military officers and choose those for ideological reasons. voice-verified

loyalty reasons, etcetera. voice-verified

Where do you think voice-verified

Do you agree with that criticism? voice-verified

And enough allies. voice-verified

I mean, you touched on it, but the actual alliances are sort of weakened as well. voice-verified

So David French goes on to write. voice-verified

Touching on what you just said, as long as Iran, a longstanding ally of Russia that's closely linked to its neighbor through the Caspian Sea, remains in the fight, it can continue to deplete our interceptors to the point where it might take years to bring our stocks back to acceptable levels, even if we ramp up production at immense cost. voice-verified

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