Ben Maisel

And you already see the language that they're using with those countries, especially with Cuba right now, as Donald Trump tries to distract from the Iran disaster and debacle as Iran continues to formalize its control over the Strait of Hormuz.

building the persian gulf strait authority uh working with neighbors giving russia and china exemptions to tolls all the things that they are doing you already see this trump regime and then you spoke about the drones and you spoke about the other things that they're claiming cuba has which you know i'm sure they do have plenty of stuff probably as a defensive posture because the united states for the past few months has been threatening to invade their country

And they've seen what follows when the United States makes these threats when it comes to Venezuela, when it comes to Iran, right?

So yeah, I think they want to be prepared for a potential invasion.

I totally understand that aspect of it.

And then you see someone like Marco Rubio today, and he's getting out there and he's starting to say the same things that we heard in the lead up to the Iran war, the same things we heard in the lead up to the Iraq war.

It's the same lines that these Republicans have used for decades and decades and decades.

oh, they have these weapons now and they're a threat to the United States and there could be an attack on the United States imminently and we need to be prepared and we need to understand they're a state sponsor of terror.

They use these buzzwords to manufacture consent and try to sell these wars

even if they kind of like half-ass it, like Iran didn't even try to sell the war, right?

But they use these lines in order to try to manufacture consent and in order to say, listen, we had no choice.

They were going to have a nuclear weapon in two weeks.

And if we didn't do this, well, you would...

You should have seen what would have happened, even when all independent analyses say the exact opposite, even when all independent analyses say that it's the United States and Donald Trump who is the aggressor.

And I think it's a problem right now when we look at the geopolitical landscape out there.

that we see the United States is the erratic one, the one who our allies are unable to trust.

And at the same time, these countries who would normally be relying on the United States, be partners with the United States, be working with the United States, they're looking outwards.

They're looking to countries like China.

they're looking at countries who have been historically our adversaries and they're going okay this may be a communist regime this may be a regime that does some bad things but they're stable like they're not nuts and we know what they do and we know that we could at least deal with these people donald trump i don't he could rip up our deal tomorrow he could just start go on a

rampage.