John Bolton on BBC HARDTalk

[@georgedocwins8724]

I like how Bolton keeps talking after the interview is over and the sound is off. The guy never gives up 😊

[@mrpeel3239]

Throughout his career, Amb. Bolton sounded many early alarms (well before other high-level officials ) about the nuclear threats from Iran, North Korea and other nefarious nations.

[@jameswilliams7026]

No he didn't

[@Diallooumar-i4t]

IS only thé usa alliwed to have nucke

[@JaimeQuintana-i8o]

Are you on drugs?

[@rothwellaudio]

The most nefarious nation on the planet is the USA.

[@ursmuller5150]

Great interview. Entertaining in a weird way, somehow informative, in your face plain speak, spot on. Disclaimer: I am not a fan of Mr Bolton, but this plain speak about important global and domestic issues is refreshing. 👍🏻

[@bumblebeehald]

Funny how under the Bush years a fiercly diagreed with Boltons policies and today he seems coherent and rational compared to whats the rest have to offer.

[@yeshua_base64]

Great interview.

[@watanabefan2089]

His interviewing style is annoying. Instead of focusing on the matter at hand he hammers away in an attempt to embarrass the interviewee.

[@citadelo5ricks]

The interviewer loves to argue, but Bolton really knows his stuff. I was not a fan, until the last few months, he speaks with specificty and detail. He listens to questions and responds, and it turns out, he's been right about a lot of things, including Iran. The world will indeed miss the US when they're gone, this is a perfect close. He could be positioning for a presidential run and after 4 more years of either candidate we may need someone like him.

[@ryanmacdonnell8987]

Lmao, was he right about Iraq?

[@citadelo5ricks]

@@ryanmacdonnell8987 Good call...damn!

[@ModinikiLuli-m5n]

Stick to baseball thanks citadelo

[@StavrosSofokleous]

He is a typical representative of Republican policies.What is good about being a BushJr 2?Do you forget the unreasonable Iraq war or him being against JCPOA?

[@MikkoVille]

The interviewer (Stephen Sackur) does not "like to argue", he loves to do his job which is to ask tough questions. It's called HARDTalk, not EASYtalk after all.

[@nigelscott1922]

Basically called JB a liar in the first few minutes. JB is a very smart man and the only one to date who has spoken any sense.

[@tibchy144]

that's why this show is called Hard Talk

[@kbhorizon7883]

What a great interview!

[@AplusStrategy]

Interesting talk with John Bolton. A bit disappointed that the questions were shaped on occasion as provocative statements the substance of which was not followed up on. It leaves me with the feeling that the interviewer was signalling his own virtue rather than trying to challenge the position of his guest. Especially on the subject of Israel, the talk skirted the complexities of Israel's dilemma.

[@mck2021]

I like listening to John Bolton as he is one of the few political characters who can talk properly. I don't necessarily agree with him on everything, but it is so refreshing to listen to an American who has a command of the English language. I don't know what the deal is with the interviewer, why he is so arrogant and believes that you have to be rude and condescending to interview someone.

[@cromwellsfather2499]

He's British

[@lusianaganilau9417]

@@cromwellsfather2499 thats why its called hard talk...

[@mightymentos1991]

well said Mr Bolton!

[@supervisorch4585]

Somebody prepares to write a book the "revenge of John Bolton".

[@pickaxingoneuropa8457]

Insightful interview. Bolton handled the BBC well. Excellent. 👍🐋 both candidates suck👍🐋

[@PeacefulInNY]

BBC! are you sick today? No support for Jihad? John Bolton is an awesome guest. what is he doing on your network?

[@j.johnson3520]

I like John for his direct and analytical approach, but his geopolitical faith in others, and in particular the US, gets in the way of clear eyed analysis. His faith in Netanyahu is fundamentally flawed, faith in Trump's ineptitude is fundamentally flawed, his faith in the American public is fundamentally flawed, and his faith in his own analysis in the face of so many other analyst's, politicians and generals is....? In WW2, John would've persuaded Hitler to switch sides before the Reds got to Berlin and then the New Allies would attacked Russia, promising Ukraine a free state if they too switched sides. Who knows, it may have even worked. I wouldn't say John's a hawk. More like an Eagle!

[@johnliu3317]

It wouldn’t have worked. Even if the Allies agreed to negotiate, Hitler would have to step down and wait for his trial after all he’s done. You might have sympathy for Bolton’s ideas, but don’t just underestimate the intelligence of the Big Three. If Stalin were to live a longer life, he could have outplayed the US to a certain extent. We probably would live in a much different world arena nowadays.

[@crancarenotafish]

Man confronted with his failures evades responsibility. His a warmonger.We don't need people like him.

[@ГлебВерховский-п2р]

Sure, Ivan

[@garymcnutt]

@@ГлебВерховский-п2р ok Adolf.

[@futures2247]

these people are truly terrifying, completely unable to critically self reflect.

[@DonikaJorgo-l7e]

Go for president..Bolton.. You looking very fit. You was advised DTgv 2019..soo

[@j49mass]

Love Bolton!

[@tractorpoodle]

Bolton cleaned the floor with this guy.

[@CarlosPerez-ry7on]

I am right-wing and lifelong conservative. John Bolton is right: both candidates suck! Kamala is weak, far left and incapable of showing strength, something very serious for such an important position. Trump is an egocentric narcissist who does not understand at all how the balance of power works in the world. The only thing I like about him is his support for Israel but since he is a spoiled boy, it may be that as soon as he has a disagreement with Netanyahu that support will disappear. We are toste! 😵‍💫

[@w.b..]

Thank you. I'm Israeli and these are exactly my thoughts too. I'm hoping that Trump would figure the Israel-Saudi-UAE alliance would mean eventually more money in his pocket so will be supportive, but what a sick way to do foreign policy. The Republican party is genuinely supportive, while the Democrats are split. I also worry that a Trump victory will cause so much mayhem that the US won't be able to focus on anything at all, and that will be really bad.

[@humanbeing4841]

Trump is the most pro-Israel President ever; Netanyahu himself has said. Trump believes in a strong, independent USA that is able to command strength in the world without the need for long, drawn out wars. Trump was responsible for the Abraham Accords and the normalization of Israel with Sunni Arab countries and I have no doubt that Saudi Arabia would have joined had he won the 2020 election.

[@CarlosPerez-ry7on]

@@w.b.. I don't think the USA will ever stop supporting Israel. The question is with what intensity they do it. At the moment and facing the elections, it is logical that the democratic party tries to disguise its support for Israel due to the number of imbecile voters who believe Palestinian propaganda. Trump is sure to activate the Abrahm agreements again. What is a shame is that he does not support Ukrania. especially since Russia is also responsible for supporting those who want Israel's destruction. Shalom ✡️

[@andrewwhite3793]

Always amazes me that the likes of John Bolton would rather sit on his hands rather than vote Harris to stop Trump.

[@garethjones7677]

I agree with your sentiments; democracy is a choice between less good and worse, particularly in this US election cycle, he needs to decide.

[@packageism]

Well said. Exactly what I was thinking. He lacks the IQ and foresight of what is going to happen if Trump is re elected. .

[@SoulOnTopJB]

Was thinking that myself

[@howardhdavidson]

No ! you all are wrong and Bolton is right…She would be an unprecedented disaster with her Bernie Sanders policies . With her insincere laughing voice .Trump is the lesser evil and you know what a Trump presidency looks like .

[@Deadstep7]

Trump is only real short-term danger, while Harris represents a very slow long-term danger of far left lunatics, which is absolutely against American values.

[@matchbox555]

I wanted to hear Bolton finish his Star Wars analogy.

[@primuseng5822]

I agree with Bolton, we miss strong America with consistent vision!!!😊

[@garymcnutt]

you mean a warmongering pawn of bankers and the pentagon that the rest of the world detests?

[@stevemorse108]

No hand shake no smiles no walk down the isle.

[@patrickcooney5423]

Wish Trump and Harris would submit to a Hard Talk , don’t think they could handle it !!!

[@SultanKhan-je2kt]

Great questions.

[@MapleSyrupPoet]

God bless all

[@trajancanada]

Sometimes you need a hawk. Some call Churchill a warmonger, but he rose to meet the challenges being mounted by totalitarian regimes. The Russian action in 2022 may have been avoided had a much more assertive and aggressive response to Putin's actions in 2008, 2012, 2014 and 2016 been undertaken. Instead, no one did anything. Putin saw weakness, and acted on it.

[@tofatofa472]

Churchill was before the nuclear and cyber age - so bringing him up is a moot point as balance of power politics is completely different now. Russia shares a long border with China. Would be handy for the US to have a good relationship with a country that borders its greatest rival but alas they seem poised to push Russia and China ever closer together. 😂

[@Woottonorganics-cy1fu]

Yosemite Sam you done it again

[@steveeuphrates-river7342]

Americans get angry when Brits are so adversarial in interviews but that is how they roll. I think it's a truer form a journalism. Not these warm muffin CNN or Faux News "friendlies".

[@erikvanderheeg5729]

The Ambassador tells it as it is.

[@RobertIsraelKabakoff]

"It depends on who you believe"? No. Not really. What happened or didn’t is an objective fact with little or nothing to do with what anyone believes. 'Not if I have anything to say about it.' Outstanding, sir, and the perfectly toned and executed smackdowns throughout. The ever-smarmy host met more than his match here. Y'see, according to the host's line of questioning, America's wrong first and always, and the seven-front war against Israel begjning with a barbaric atrocity of genocidal intent, aimed with ruthless ethnic hatred: over 1,200 men, women, and children raped, murdered, and mutilated in an hpurs long rampage of savagery, videod and proudly uploaded by the perpetrators, cheered by millions, with scenes so brutal-babies burned to death in front of their parents, young women assaulted with blowtorches, necrophilia, savage decapitations-a wartime militia let loose on an unguarded population of civilians and families, defying overstatement. After the massacre, on retreat, they took 240 survivors captive-babies to elders-subjected to unspeakable cruelty, held for over a year to this day. Got it? Good. It's not complicated.

[@JoshSmithDeeps]

There was mass protests against prosecution of IDF rapes of Palestinian prisoners. The president of Israel said "no innocent civilians". Just say you view Palestinians as subhuman, assuming a moral high ground is not possible.

[@JoshSmithDeeps]

The ruthless ethnic hatred exists in Israel against arabs

[@mustafatekin7073]

Mr Bolton is the best diplomat.

[@StavrosSofokleous]

Congratulations, MrBolton. You could have supported Harris out of remorse

[@eddielindaa]

Great man Hope Harris offers him a job

[@bx3556]

John Bolton is the biggest patriot and strategic thinker of our time. Assess the threat ACCURATELY.

[@benetaue]

Take away his passport refuses to vote. FIT 😂

[@packageism]

JB's reasons for not endorsing Harris are lame. Surely he knows, more than anyone, that its better to have Harris in the White House, for the next 4 yrs, and not the orange fruit cake. If Trump wins the election, one must seriously consider the IQ of the average American- including the likes of JB who will be partially responsible.

[@bojans3700]

Whomever becomes US President, Europe needs to step up massively vis-a-vis Ukraine.

[@loveguitar2x]

And men power too since this war is killing off their men and destroying Ukraine. Keep the NATO out of UKRAINE

[@TheVigilantEye77]

Non interventionism is not isolationism

[@ianfraser6161]

Is one a worse and more dangerous choice? If so then it is clear, vote for the other. Anything else is a dereliction of a citizen’s duty.

[@AndreDuncan-e6b]

Politics is the art of the possible. Trump has shown what is possible. The Republican party leadership is swept aside by Trump.

[@gavinmc5285]

why would you toast a sharpie?

[@Jamesipod]

One need to question the idea of progress ,democracy ,mis use made these words lethal.If there would be a proper histography and written as it is ,then one wonder how dark our times to the falling days of Byzantine empire

[@ianfraser6161]

Cop out Bolton.

[@weizhang5424]

Harris or Trump, Bolton is toast.

[@ГлебВерховский-п2р]

The interviewer is a tireless self-promoter. He only wants a confrontation with Bolton instead of clearing the issues.

[@howardhdavidson]

The interviewer is an argumentative Englishmen who should be asked about the clown prime minister the UK has and their foreign policies . If they actually have one .Bolton appears to be one of the saner American foreign policy experts.Kamala Harris would make a good partner for Starmer and his extreme socialist policies.

[@chrisminchin854]

Lost all confidence in John Bolton, his ideas are solidly anchored by his inability to adapt to change. Kamala Harris is infinity a better choice than Trump.

[@PJG-n8e]

Dangerous person

[@ChrisDennis-dp3md]

Bolton likes it hard.

[@hnnrules]

He is a proven Loser.

[@jamescraft4966]

The gravitas of American politics?

[@federicoguerrera5535]

The interviewer is disgustingly biased and annoying. Amb.Bolton is always analytical and on point.

[@darwel007]

Bottom line. The US is a clown country.

[@MichaelReynolds-g3l]

I think he is a bit dotty

[@pramodkrishnamurthy3707]

"I want to see the terrorist threat of Hamas destroyed. Hezbollah destroyed" Umm how about the terrorist threat of Israel?😅

[@tomhermens7698]

Harris will lead the world.

[@vijaymujumdar5617]

Military campaigns in iraq and Afghanistan were successful but political discourse after dismantling of Saddam and Taliban was a failure. After defeating the terrorists western alliance should have withdrawn and gone in again when credible threat reemerged. This hair rained policy of nation building, bringing democracy to population that is steeped in medieval religious bigotry was destined to fail. And it did after losing billions and scores of lives.

[@baibamennika4480]

Good interview with facial flashes and threats to Trump, if you do something bad to me , you will regret till I live...not voting for Kamala? Today not, but still time to go...

[@StavrosSofokleous]

As if you are any better than Trump, you are a typical representative of Republican policies

[@khairulnaeim756]

Security advisor...are he knows what really happen inside American...for real... probably he do not know just hear from intelligent say... okay, every thing okay.. rumors say intelligent become terrorist...and also criminal..what is that....

[@khairulnaeim756]

If X person,do in his side...it will longer term...as president..🥸...do you know X ...

[@markkahn8890]

Could it be that Mr Bolton's fragile ego was deflated?

[@bm8641]

Coming from an interviewer who is coming from a failed state that is UK.

[@georgedavid1373]

More like Jerk Talk

[@user-naumannauman]

John Bolton. world god people's careful life world fells rowng with cancel last time at world god people's makes world fells people's no makes! Nauman' American Head'a

[@christianfthomsen]

What an arrogant questioning style and tone of voice.

[@matchbox555]

This is BBC HARDTALK not Fox news you American waanker.

[@GiZaNi-ts5dd]

Mental unstable😂

[@oliverdesvaux]

Awful , patronising interviewer. Surprised Bolton didn’t walk out

[@bromleysimon7414]

He not only didn't walk out, he posted this here.

[@stevemorse108]

It is called hard talk not sycophants unite.

[@davidhoover3347]

What an insufferable interviewer.

[@dc8890]

I'm British and I think our media has a different style to American media. BBC interviewers (not just this guy) do try to ask harsh questions because they think the public would have harsh questions. And the BBC tries to stay neutral (they are legally obliged to be neutral under the terms of their state-ownership). So they play devil's advocate. They will ask left-wing questions to right-wing people, and vice versa. Americans might see this as the interviewer being too rude, but the BBC would say that they're offering strong scrutiny of all political figures (left-wing or right-wing).

[@blabla12654]

@@dc8890 It's not the style, it's the questions themselves. The interviewer just pushes his own agenda - same as the one BBC pushes domestically

[@going2Mars]

@@dc8890I’m British and I disagree…I think blabla12654 comment is spot on though…

[@hemanshuambani9572]

@@dc8890bbc and neutral….are u kidding yourself😂😂

[@i_am_elle_gee6917]

And why should people listen to an irrelevant old bloke "who has helped plan coups d'etat - not here but you know (in) other places" - his own words.

[@jamesdunne9833]

Profile in courage Bolton is not. Such a cop out. And such a disingenuous hack.

[@bimbo-yw6ny]

he can't connect the dots, you don't defend american way of life fighting in Ukraine.

[@Mike-mm4mx]

America is not fighting in Ukraine. America is helping Ukraine to defend itself against a brutal, illegal unjustified aggression. If Ukraine is toast it will be the end of European and global security and order. All the authoritarian states will be consequently emboldened and will come after America even more than they are doing already.

[@bimbo-yw6ny]

good trump fired, a warmoenger tecnocrat, ww3 unfortunatelly already started

[@bimbo-yw6ny]

this great analytical mind, he is happy russia has military agreement with asian country like n.korea and china.