Anne Applebaum

It's not just in our country.

It's in other countries.

It's possible that the Maduro capture also unnerved Putin.

I mean, as I've written, in a way, it enables the Russians and the Chinese to do whatever they want.

If we can do whatever they want, they can do what they can too.

But it's also true that Maduro was a Russian client.

There were billions of dollars of Russian investment in Venezuela.

The Russians sold a lot of weapons to Venezuela.

They may be feelings, you know, particularly given what's going on in Iran and what happened in Syria a year ago, they may be feeling that, you know, it's true that the war in Ukraine is sucked up all of their assets and all of their weapons and all of their ability.

And they may be feeling, you know, Putin may be feeling some kind of insecurity.

And maybe the missile was an expression of that, too.

No, that's right.

I mean, also, the other bizarre thing, you know, just to reinforce the point that this is not about anything real, the U.S.

used to have more military assets on Greenland.

And actually, at one point during the Cold War, we had nuclear weapons there.

There's now one tiny base.

I read recently it's 150 people.

I don't have to check whether that's the case, but...

I know it's very small.

And the U.S.