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FDD"s Foreign Podicy

A national security and foreign policy podcast from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD).

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00:49:38

DJT and the VIP (Very Important Prince)

FDD"s Foreign Podicy ·

2025/11/22

President Trump gave Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, A.K.A. MbS, a royal welcome to Washington. But beyond the flashy diplomacy, quite a lot of business was transacted. Host Cliff May is joined by Edmund Fitton-Brown to discuss the visit, the future of U.S.–Saudi relations, the threat from Tehran and the Houthis, Turkey’s neo-Ottoman ambitions, and how a changing kingdom is changing the Middle East.

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00:46:29

Back to Iraq

FDD"s Foreign Podicy ·

2025/11/14

📺: Watch this episode on YouTube here.Filmmaker Michael Pack joins host Cliff May to tell the extraordinary story of The Last 600 Meters, his gripping documentary on the battles of Fallujah and Najaf. Though the film was finished in 2007, it sat on a shelf for 17 years before PBS finally aired it this Veterans Day. From young Americans fighting al-Qaeda and Iran-backed militias in brutal urban combat to political leaders pulling the plug mid-mission and media outlets like Al Jazeera shaping the

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00:49:47

Trump’s Orient Express

FDD"s Foreign Podicy ·

2025/10/31

President Trump just returned from a whirlwind week in Asia closing trade and investment deals and strengthening security alliances. Host Cliff May sits down with FDD’s Craig Singleton to discuss what Trump accomplished, as well as the challenges – and threats – that remain.

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00:51:05

Three Voices From the Front Lines in Ukraine

FDD"s Foreign Podicy ·

2025/10/17

Host Cliff May is joined by retired Ukrainian Admiral Ihor Voronchenko, the former inspector general of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and former commander of the Naval Forces of Ukraine; along with retired U.S. Marine Colonel Andy Bain, executive director and co-founder of the Ukrainian Freedom Fund; and FDD's retired Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery to assess the state of Russia’s war on Ukraine — what Kyiv needs from the West and where the fight goes next.

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00:51:41

A Second American Century Requires Energy Dominance

FDD"s Foreign Podicy ·

2025/10/03

Watch this episode on YouTube here.From China’s stranglehold on critical minerals to the coming AI power crunch, an energy arms race is underway. Rich Goldberg, on loan from FDD to the White House, helped establish a new National Energy Dominance Council. He’s now building a program at FDD that will focus on energy as a key component of national security. Rich, who has served as a Navy Intelligence Officer and National Security Council official, joins host Cliff May to discuss.

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01:11:28

The War Against the West Has a Long Way to Go

FDD"s Foreign Podicy ·

2025/09/12

On the 24th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, Cliff May sits down with Amb. Edmund Fitton-Brown, former British ambassador to Yemen and UN terrorism monitor, now a senior fellow at FDD, to assess what we’ve learned — and failed to learn — about global jihad.From Hamas leaders living lavishly in Qatar, the Houthis’ missile attacks, al Qaeda’s quiet alliance with Tehran’s rulers, and the West’s waning influence in Africa to the Taliban’s return to Kabul and the UN’s support for Hamas,

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00:50:58

How the U.N. Became Hamas’s Partner

FDD"s Foreign Podicy ·

2025/09/05

For fifty years, the United Nations has waged a war on Israel—not with rockets or tanks, but with words: resolutions branding Zionism as racism, false charges of apartheid, fabricated famine, and now even cries of genocide. It’s a propaganda war that empowers Hamas and delegitimizes Israel on the world stage.On this episode of Foreign Podicy, host Cliff May is joined by his FDD colleague Rich Goldberg to pull back the curtain on the UN’s alliance with Hamas, expose how disinformation became a weapon

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00:59:20

The Shadows Moscow Casts Over Historian Mark Galeotti

FDD"s Foreign Podicy ·

2025/08/29

The world’s most endangered democracies—Taiwan, South Korea, Israel, and Ukraine—face relentless threats from the Axis of Aggressors: Beijing, Pyongyang, Tehran, and Moscow. With Ukraine locked in an existential war, host Cliff May welcomes British historian Mark Galeotti, host of In Moscow’s Shadows, for an unflinching look at Russia’s ambitions, Putin’s imperial drive, and what it all means for the future of the free world.

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00:56:15

On the Road Again – in Japan and Taiwan

FDD"s Foreign Podicy ·

2025/08/08

Adm. Mark Montgomery has been on the road again – along with Craig Singleton and Matt Pottinger. All three FDD scholars just returned from a visit to Japan and Taiwan, two American allies increasingly threatened by Xi Jinping, the very ambitious Chinese Communist ruler. Mark joins host Cliff May for a debrief.

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00:45:00

Bomb Fordow, Announce Ceasefire, Headline NATO:...

FDD"s Foreign Podicy ·

2025/06/26

NATO summits are usually dry and wonky affairs. This one was different.To unpack what was said, what wasn’t, and what actually matters, host Cliff May is joined by his FDD colleagues RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery and Bradley Bowman to discuss alliance politics, military power projection, strategic signaling, and more.

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00:48:29

War Tour d’Horizon

FDD"s Foreign Podicy ·

2025/06/12

Host Cliff May is joined by his FDD colleagues H.R. McMaster and Brad Bowman to assess the growing cooperation among adversaries like China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea—also know as the 'axis of aggressors.'From the Kremlin's efforts to manipulate perceptions in the West, particularly regarding NATO, to Iran's nuclear ambitions and the geopolitical implications of its relationship with China and the continuing threat from North Korea, they discuss why a robust U.S. response to these challenges is

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00:47:49

Iran on the brink — or is the West getting played?

FDD"s Foreign Podicy ·

2025/05/30

Is Iran on the brink, or is the West getting played again? Filling in for host Cliff May, Behnam Ben Taleblu is joined by Andrea Stricker and Saeed Ghasseminejad to discuss Trump’s renewed demand for full nuclear dismantlement, the regime’s internal weakness, and why half-measures won’t cut it. From stalled negotiations to nationwide strikes and the case for a “strike fund,” they unpack how to confront the Islamic Republic in 2025.

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00:49:38

No Pain (for Putin), No Gain

FDD"s Foreign Podicy ·

2025/05/23

President Trump’s May 19 phone call with Vladimir Putin does not appear to be two hours well-spent. According to readouts, the Russian ruler agreed to continue talking about talking.Around the same time, Putin launched a massive drone strike against Ukrainian soldiers defending their country and civilians attempting to survive the long war waged against them by an enemy seeking to destroy their freedom and identity.Despite President Trump’s multiple threats to impose “devastating” sanctions on

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01:03:30

A Hundred Years of Holy War

FDD"s Foreign Podicy ·

2025/05/15

Following the Oct. 7, 2023 invasion of Israel and the pogrom carried out by terrorists from Hamas and affiliated Islamist organizations, and some Gazan civilians as well, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres opined that the attack “did not happen in a vacuum.”Well, he’s correct just not in the way he intended.Hebron is an ancient city 20 miles south of Jerusalem in Judea, now more usually referred to as the West Bank. Hebron is the burial place of Abraham, and Jews and Muslims lived there mostly

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01:02:57

Bombers and Ballistic Missiles with Gen. Bussiere

FDD"s Foreign Podicy ·

2025/05/02

China is conducting what a top US military officer called a breathtaking expansion and modernization of its nuclear and conventional forces. An October 2024 Defense Intelligence Agency report estimated that by 2030, “China will have more than 1,000 operational nuclear warheads, most of which will be fielded on systems capable of ranging the continental United States.”Meanwhile, Russia maintains the largest foreign nuclear stockpile in the world and is actively modernizing its arsenal to be able to

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00:54:53

Dealing with Tehran

FDD"s Foreign Podicy ·

2025/04/25

Last week, Abbas Araghchi, the foreign minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran, said that talks with the Trump administration appear to be going well.This tells host Cliff May that from an American perspective, the talks are going badly.President Trump has said that America’s goal is the “full dismantlement” of the regime’s nuclear weapons program, including its capacity to produce missiles that could deliver nuclear warheads to targets anywhere in the world.Mr. Araghchi’s goal is to prevent

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01:00:04

Where in the World is Admiral Mark Montgomery?

FDD"s Foreign Podicy ·

2025/04/17

According to host Cliff May, "Mark Montgomery is an admirable admiral. Another adjective I’d use to describe him: peripatetic. Which is a fancy way of saying he’s on the road more than Willie Nelson—whom he does not otherwise resemble."Most recently the retired flag officer has been in Lithuania, which on the east shares a border with the Russian vassal state of Belarus, and on the southwest has a border with the Russian oblast of Kaliningrad, which was called Königsberg until Russia took it from

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00:54:05

Erdogan, the Neo-Ottoman: Turkish Without the Delight

FDD"s Foreign Podicy ·

2025/04/11

If you were to visit Turkey years ago, it might’ve felt both Middle Eastern and European. It was Muslim and secular. It was, more or less, free and democratic. Host Cliff May says the food was great, too. Now? Well, he’s told the food is still great. To explain what has happened and what is happening in Turkey, Cliff is joined by his FDD colleague Sinan Ciddi. About SinanSinan is also an Associate Professor of National Security Studies at the Marine Corps University in Quantico. Earlier, Sinan was

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00:47:13

Lord Andrew Roberts’ Documented History of Oct. 7

FDD"s Foreign Podicy ·

2025/03/27

Lord Andrew Roberts has written or edited 20 books which have been translated into 28 languages and have redefined our understanding of leaders and leadership, of empires and nations, of the forces that have shaped—and in some cases misshaped—the modern world.He’s won many awards, including the Bradley Prize for which he was nominated by host Cliff May.In 2022, he was elevated to the House of Lords as Baron Roberts of Belgravia.His most recent work: Chairing the 7 October Parliamentary Commission

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00:53:01

America’s Top Soldier in the Pacific

FDD"s Foreign Podicy ·

2025/03/24

The Indo-Pacific is one of the most consequential regions in the world. It’s home to economies, trade routes, and allies vital to American prosperity and security.It is also a region where the Chinese Communist Party, building on decades of defense sector cooperation with Russia, has expanded its military capabilities at a breathtaking pace. The more capable the Chinese military has become, the more aggressively Beijing has acted to coerce its neighbors and undermine American interests.Someone who

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