Foreign Podicy

Mar 07 2025 253 ep. 51 mins 1.2k
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A national security and foreign policy podcast from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD).

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Introducing The Iran Breakdown

Mar 07 2025 24 mins  
Episodes 1-3 of The Iran Breakdown drop on Wednesday, March 19. Follow now wherever you get your podcasts, including on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube. In this special edition of Foreign Podicy, we're excited to introduce FDD's new podcast series hosted by Mark Dubowitz: The Iran Breakdown. Episodes 1-3 drop on Wednesday, March 19, but Foreign Podicy followers can enjoy the b

Disinformation and the Surreal Heart of the New Russia

Feb 27 2025 54 mins  
Back when host Cliff May was an exchange student at Leningrad State University in 1972, he believed that if the Soviet Union ever collapsed that Russia would become a free country. Well, that’s not how things turned out. Peter Pomerantsev has a book on Russian propaganda: “Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia.” He joins Cliff along

Veterans and American National Security

Feb 20 2025 56 mins  
Some might think of veterans issues and national security issues separately, but they are intricately intertwined. There's a moral imperative to care for those who have risked their lives to defend freedom. There's also a national security imperative to do so. This fact raises several questions: How are America’s veterans doing? How well are we taking care of those who have serv

All Eyes on Gaza

Feb 13 2025 54 mins  
A two-state solution was first offered to Palestinian leaders as early as 1937. Israel offered two-state solutions again in 1947, 1967, 1978, 2000, 2001, and 2008. Palestinian leaders declined each and every such offer. They have proposed no alternatives. Their grievance, it should by now be clear, is not the absence of a nation-state called Palestine but rather the existence of a

The Battle for Israel and The Dream of Gaz-a-Lago

Feb 06 2025 61 mins  
In 2019 after serving as deputy national security advisor to President Donald Trump, Victoria Coates was promoted to Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for the Middle East and North Africa, overseeing the Maximum Pressure campaign against Tehran and initiating the negotiations for the Abraham Accords. She joins Cliff to discuss her new book: “T

The Shifting Sands of the Middle East

Jan 31 2025 62 mins  
The war that Yahya Sinwar launched on Oct. 7, 2023 was meant to profoundly restructure the Middle East. And that is happening – although not in the way the late Hamas leader envisioned. It’s not easy to discern the emerging new realities; to understand the rivalries among the many jihadi groups and leaders, Sunni and Shia; the shifting threats to Israelis, Kurds, Druze, Christ

Trump’s National Security To-do List

Jan 24 2025 55 mins  
As President Trump returns to the White House, he has no more important task than defense of the homeland and ensuring “peace through strength,” because U.S. national security is threatened by the Axis of Aggressors in Beijing, Moscow, Tehran, and Pyongyang and their Star Wars cantina of terrorist group friends. Host Cliff May discusses with his FDD colleagues RADM (Ret) Mark M

Deal of the Century?

Jan 17 2025 47 mins  
A few facts central to any discussion of a deal between Israel and Hamas: —On Oct. 6, 2023. Gaza was not occupied. No Israelis lived there. No Israeli soldiers patrolled there. —Gaza was not an open-air prison. It had schools, malls, libraries, hospitals, restaurants, sandy beaches. —Hamas initiated a war on Oct. 7, 2023 by staging the worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust

Get Smart on AI

Jan 10 2025 45 mins  
“Artificial intelligence is the future… Whoever becomes the leader in this sphere will become the ruler of the world.” — Vladimir Putin

 The Russian president-for-life and neo-tzar waging a terrible war of conquest against Ukraine is evil but he’s not stupid, certainly not when it comes to artificial intelligence. Americans don’t want to rule the world. But neithe

A Jihadi New Year

Jan 03 2025 58 mins  
Just hours into the New Year, we were reminded that the Jihad against the West is not over. It’s not even taking a winter break. A man inspired by the Islamic State drove a pickup truck into a crowd in the French Quarter of New Orleans, murdering at least 15 people and injuring dozens more. Hours later in New York City, demonstrators chanted: “There is only one solution – int