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Amanpour

Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide

Amanpour

CNN

News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump took the United States to war, and now he's trying to find a way out of it. That leaves Europe in a quandary, wanting to support its most powerful ally while keeping out of a war they reject. While NATO's secretary general says Trump is acting to keep the world safe, Spain's prime minister is speaking out loudly against the war, and Germany and Norway also have grave concerns. Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide joins from Oslo.  Also on today's show: Husam Zomlot, Palestinian Ambassador to the UK; Robert Pape, Political Science Professor, University of Chicago    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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

0:08.0

Remember it all starts with they cannot have a nuclear weapon.

0:12.0

That is exactly where progress was being made in negotiations when Trump went to war against Iran,

0:18.0

says Norway's foreign minister, and he joins me with the view from Europe suffering economic shocks

0:23.5

and wanting this to end now.

0:25.6

Then, they were dragging me while I was undressed

0:28.0

with my hands and legs bound.

0:29.8

Horror stories from the West Bank,

0:31.9

a settler violence spikes under a shield of infunity.

0:35.6

I speak with the Palestinian ambassador to the UK.

0:38.3

Plus,

0:39.3

You're so confident of success, strategic success, you don't have any backup plan to deal with the enemy lashing back.

0:49.3

The escalation trap. Political scientist Robert Pape tells Hari Srinivasan,

0:55.0

this US war may be headed towards strategic failure. Welcome to the program, everyone, I'm Christiana Manpur in London.

1:22.9

Donald Trump took the United States to war, and now he's trying to find a way out of it,

1:26.9

as several thousand

1:27.9

airborne troops and Marines head to the region. The U.S. President says he gave Iran a 15-point

1:33.7

peace plan. But Iran responded with its own plan, a list of five conditions for ending the war,

1:39.4

and so the bombardments continue, with Iran holding the economic sword of Damocles over whole region's head.

1:46.2

Europe is quite literally stuck in a quandary between supporting its most powerful ally

1:51.1

and wanting to keep out of a war it rejects.

1:54.3

While NATO's Secretary-General says Trump is acting to keep the world safe,

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