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Elbridge Colby on why America must pivot from Ukraine to Taiwan

Americano

The Spectator

Politics, News, News Commentary

4 β€’ 714 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 6 July 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The war in Ukraine is only bogging America down, says Elbridge Colby, a former national security adviser to the Trump administration. On this episode of Americano, Colby tells host Freddy Gray why the US should – and likely will – reduce its support to Ukraine and Europe, to focus on the increasing threat China poses over Taiwan. Europe, he says, can pick up the slack on its own continent. Colby has been tipped to become Trump's national security adviser should he win in November this year.

Produced by Cindy Yu and Joe Bedell-Brill.

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Hello and welcome to The Americano Show. Today we're going to be talking about what the world

0:34.8

might look like under the next Trump administration, because since last week and that disastrous debate for Joe Biden on Thursday night, the odds of a Trump presidency have shrunk dramatically.

0:48.1

And so we thought it'd be a good time to look at what that might mean in terms of foreign policy for America.

0:53.0

And what better person to talk about this

0:55.3

with than Elbridge Colby, who is an extremely distinguished American. He was Deputy Assistant

1:01.6

Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Force Development under Trump. And he had quite a large part in

1:07.6

that administration's defense strategy. And he's also the author of the strategy

1:12.1

of denial America's defense in an age of great power conflict. Elbridge, thank you very much for

1:18.7

coming on to Americano. I'll start by asking, firstly, I mean, how confident are you of a Trump

1:23.6

victory at this moment? Well, great to be with you, Freddie, and thanks for the kind introduction.

1:28.4

Well, I don't pretend to know how the American people are going to decide, but I certainly,

1:32.4

I hope they vote for President Trump, and I think there's plenty of reason to think that they

1:37.0

are trending in that direction.

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