S8 Ep592: 2. Hussein Haqqani and Bill Roggio (SEG 2): Haqqani notes European and Arab reluctance to join the U.S. coalition due to past diplomatic friction. Roggio discusses the lack of a viable Iranian resistance and the failure of air-only military strategies. (3
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2. Hussein Haqqani and Bill Roggio(SEG 2): Haqqani notes European and Arab reluctance to join the U.S. coalition due to past diplomatic friction. Roggio discusses the lack of a viable Iranianresistance and the failure of air-only military strategies. (3)
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| 0:00.0 | I'm John Batchel with my colleagues, Hessein Okani and Bill Rajo. |
| 0:20.6 | Hussain is at the Hudson Institute, former ambassador from Pakistan in the United States, |
| 0:24.9 | Bill Rajos, senior fellow for the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. |
| 0:29.3 | He keeps a long war journal. |
| 0:30.7 | Hesena, come to you because of the European response that we have right now. |
| 0:35.2 | Trump warns NATO faces, quote, very bad future if allies fail to help U.S. in Iran. Immediately we have right now. Trump warns NATO faces, quote, very bad future if allies fail to help |
| 0:39.6 | U.S. and Iran. Immediately we have this headline, F.T. Sarma says U.K. will not be drawn into |
| 0:46.4 | wider war. We can presume because there are reports of hesitance in Europe that that remarked by the Prime Minister is representative of responses from |
| 0:57.8 | other major powers in the EU and in NATO. Is this to be expected, Hussein? Are you surprised |
| 1:03.8 | that the Europeans are stepping back from conflict with Iran? |
| 1:08.2 | I am not, and I am surprised if anybody else is. Look, President Trump has made |
| 1:16.2 | it very clear. He doesn't care about Europe. J.D. Wants has been insulting European leaders, |
| 1:21.8 | left, right and center. The Secretary of Defense has made it known that America does not, A, need Europe, |
| 1:30.6 | B, it also doesn't want them. |
| 1:34.1 | And Europe's immediate concern, which was Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the defense of Ukraine |
| 1:42.2 | has been mocked by President Trump and his cabinet members repeatedly. |
| 1:49.9 | So none of the Europeans were going to join anything that President Trump did, |
| 1:55.1 | especially one in which he did not take them on board earlier. |
| 1:59.0 | That said, the real issue is, does President Trump have |
| 2:03.1 | all his Arab partners and allies with him 100%. Well, it's very obvious that they are all with him |
| 2:10.4 | in terms of confronting Iran and stopping Iran, but they also all feel that they have not been |
| 2:16.8 | taken fully into confidence |
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