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Amanpour

Hostile to Europe, Warm to Russia

Amanpour

CNN

News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

The just-published Trump 2.0 national security strategy is causing a mix of fury, resignation, and even accusations of ignorance. Moscow has welcomed the plan, saying it aligns with Putin's vision, while former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt posted that it's "to the right of the extreme right of Europe." Celeste Wallander served as an assistant secretary of defense under President Biden, and Peter Frankopan is a professor of global history at Oxford University. They join Christiane to discuss.  Also on today's show: Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani; European Commission Vice President Kaja Kallas; Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares; Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan; New Yorker Editor David Remnick    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to Amunpur. Here's what's coming up.

0:08.0

Europe is going in some bad directions.

0:13.0

Rebuffing Europe and embracing Russia, Trump sets out a new world order.

0:18.0

In his national security strategy, the former Pentagon official Celeste Wallander

0:22.5

and historian Peter Frank Pan helped figure this out.

0:25.9

Then,

0:26.6

War is not a way of settling disputes among people or states,

0:31.5

and have evolved that a war of aggression cannot have reward.

0:36.0

Top diplomats from Europe, Qatar and Turkey on mediation and the path to peace.

0:41.3

Plus.

0:42.3

These writers are the writers that are at the forefront of thought and literature in our culture.

0:47.3

The New Yorker turns 100 and to Markets' centenary, a new documentary provides a rare

0:53.3

peek inside the magazine as it creates

0:55.8

its anniversary issue. Walter Isaacson speaks to longtime editor David Remnick. Welcome to the program, everyone. I'm Christiana Manpur in London.

1:24.7

Hostile to Europe, warm to Russia, the Trump 2.0 national security strategy is causing

1:29.9

a mix of fury, resignation, even accusations of ignorance.

1:34.5

But is it a wish list or a roadmap for a new world order?

1:38.6

Moscow has welcomed the plan saying that it aligns with Putin's vision, while former

1:42.8

Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bild has posted

1:45.0

that it's to the right of the extreme right in Europe. The document doubles down on Trump's

1:50.2

U.N. speech in September, where he told European allies they were failing and says immigration

1:55.2

to the continent will, quote, erase its civilization. But even though the strategy calls for resisting Europe, the EU top diplomat

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