Alex Horton

But from his comments, he didn't make it clear whether he was interested in attacking land targets for drug traffickers or Venezuelan military targets.

Those are two different things that would invite very different responses from

from the Venezuelan government of whether they are in actual war with the United States.

You know, strikes like that may be an off-ramp for further action, right?

Like sort of how when the U.S.

and Israel shot down

drones and missiles heading to Israel, that was an off-ramp that allowed Iran, after strikes hit their country, to take shots and sort of publicly settle the score.

This could be something similar for the U.S.

and Venezuela, that we'll attack bad guys in the area and we'll get what we want.

We'll have the public narrative of taking some targets out, but we're not going to blow up military targets.

So just let us do it and, you know, we both get what we want.

So how do we square that?

Yeah, how do we square that?

Well, I mean, when you said about probably not fentanyl, I mean, I would say what they're carrying is more likely marshmallows than fentanyl.

Wow, okay.

That's how unlikely it's fentanyl.

You know, it's cocaine.

You don't smuggle cherries out of Iowa.

You smuggle corn, right?

Yeah.