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Ayman Mohyeldin

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325 total appearances

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Pod Save the World
507: AOC on the World Stage, Trump Starves Cuba

Not just, by the way, from Russia right now, but watching Donald Trump talk about taking over Greenland and being, you know, hell-bent on taking over Greenland really puts Europe at large in a very interesting position.

Pod Save the World
507: AOC on the World Stage, Trump Starves Cuba

Because let's say hypothetically the U.S.

Pod Save the World
507: AOC on the World Stage, Trump Starves Cuba

does take control of Greenland and they do so for the articulated reason that it's good for American national security.

Pod Save the World
507: AOC on the World Stage, Trump Starves Cuba

in potentially confronting Russia or potentially confronting China.

Pod Save the World
507: AOC on the World Stage, Trump Starves Cuba

Where does that put Europe?

Pod Save the World
507: AOC on the World Stage, Trump Starves Cuba

Where does that put Europe?

Pod Save the World
507: AOC on the World Stage, Trump Starves Cuba

It puts Europe in the middle of this unbelievable fight, cross-fight that's going to potentially happen between the United States and Russia.

Pod Save the World
507: AOC on the World Stage, Trump Starves Cuba

And the Europeans are just sitting there, ducks with no say whatsoever.

Pod Save the World
507: AOC on the World Stage, Trump Starves Cuba

And you can kind of attribute that to Europe over the last several years, just conceding more ground to the Americans, letting the Americans run all over them in a series of issues, whether it's foreign policy in the Middle East, whether it's things in

Pod Save the World
507: AOC on the World Stage, Trump Starves Cuba

Central Asia, whether it is what we see now in Ukraine and elsewhere in Europe, that's the end result of always acquiescing to the United States.

Pod Save the World
507: AOC on the World Stage, Trump Starves Cuba

And specifically with somebody like Donald Trump, who doesn't give a damn about European alliances or transatlantic relations, only cares about enriching his pockets and his family's pockets and putting America on this path of

Pod Save the World
507: AOC on the World Stage, Trump Starves Cuba

I would argue, just complete and sheer corruption on a scale that we've never seen before, but putting America on a path of totalitarianism and authoritarianism that I think is extremely dangerous.

Pod Save the World
507: AOC on the World Stage, Trump Starves Cuba

Actually, I'm glad that you picked examples from AOC for two reasons.

Pod Save the World
507: AOC on the World Stage, Trump Starves Cuba

And I actually think two of AOC's most strongest soundbites or comments were not the ones that you played.

Pod Save the World
507: AOC on the World Stage, Trump Starves Cuba

And those were good for the reasons that you outlined, but there's two other important ones.

Pod Save the World
507: AOC on the World Stage, Trump Starves Cuba

One, she talks about the rules-based order not working for everyone.

Pod Save the World
507: AOC on the World Stage, Trump Starves Cuba

A couple of weeks ago, you know, Mark Carney, the Prime Minister of Canada, spoke at Davos and he talked the rules-based order is done and that it's, you know, right versus might.

Pod Save the World
507: AOC on the World Stage, Trump Starves Cuba

And right now, what we thought is the international rules-based order of the last several decades since World War II has collapsed or was on the verge of collapsing.

Pod Save the World
507: AOC on the World Stage, Trump Starves Cuba

And a lot of people took issue with that because it was only when Canada or European countries became in the crosshairs of America and Russia or powerful countries around the world when it came to the issue of trade

Pod Save the World
507: AOC on the World Stage, Trump Starves Cuba

Did he then speak up?