# Trump administration ‘destroying’ US democracy with ‘autocratic, terrorist version of Christian nationalism’

https://mins.news/en/video/110234

- France 24 English, 2026-10-21 22:06 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUe2ZbX3ENI

> François Picard speaks with former US Assistant Secretary of Defense Jim Townsend and Michael (Mikey) Weinstein, a former US Air Force officer and founder and president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation. They consider whether US military power is becoming a tool of political and religious coercion at home and abroad, including reported limits on Ukraine’s Starlink access and the Trump administration’s overtures to Vladimir Putin.

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