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HEADLINE: Bagram Air Base Inaccessible as Saudi Arabia Seeks Pakistani Nuclear Umbrella for Regional Security Assurance GUEST NAME: Bill Roggio and Husain Haqqani SUMMARY: Bill Roggio and Husain Haqqani discuss President Trump's unlikely ambition to reta

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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🗓️ 23 September 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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HEADLINE: Bagram Air Base Inaccessible as Saudi Arabia Seeks Pakistani Nuclear Umbrella for Regional Security Assurance
GUEST NAME: Bill Roggio and Husain Haqqani
SUMMARY: Bill Roggio and Husain Haqqani discuss President Trump's unlikely ambition to retake Bagram, analyzing the new Saudi-Pakistan nuclear umbrella pact as a strategic signal against perceived US unreliability.
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0:28.0

This is CBS Eye on the World.

0:30.1

Here's John Batchelor.

0:35.0

To Al Jazeera, reporting on events of these last days,

0:41.6

Afghan Taliban rejects Trump threats overt taking back by Graham Air Base.

0:47.4

I welcome my good colleagues, Bill Rajo, senior fellow for the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.

0:48.9

He keeps the Long War Journal.

0:55.8

And Asane O'Connor, former ambassador from Pakistan to the United States, now a senior fellow and in charge of the program for the Middle Eastern quandaries for the Hudson Institute.

1:01.7

Gentlemen, the remark by the president right now is an identification of a future I can't

1:09.1

quite imagine, so I need your help.

1:11.4

Bill, I start with you.

1:12.8

What is Bagram Air Base?

1:14.7

What does it represent now?

1:16.7

What could it represent if the Taliban are not successful?

1:21.7

And Mr. Trump has his ambition to return to Bagam.

1:26.3

Good evening, Bill.

1:28.6

Good evening, John. Good evening, John. Good evening,

1:35.8

Hussein. Look, well, first, I think the Taliban would no sooner give up its mission of imposing Sharia throughout Afghanistan than it would to allow U.S. troops to return to Bogram.

1:41.2

But let's just say if it would, we'll operate on that premise.

1:46.5

Bogram was the most important base in Afghanistan for the U.S. for NATO and allied forces

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