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Ben Rhodes

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Pod Save the World
Greenland Prepares for Trump Invasion

What is he thinking?

Pod Save the World
Greenland Prepares for Trump Invasion

I mean, I know how many Hamilton stans we have out there, but he's got a bit of the Aaron Burr, like, all I want to do is be in the room where it happens vibe to that guy.

Pod Save the World
Greenland Prepares for Trump Invasion

But I would say the Board of Peace doesn't seem like an actual threat to replace the UN because I have very little confidence it will do anything.

Pod Save the World
Greenland Prepares for Trump Invasion

Yeah.

Pod Save the World
Greenland Prepares for Trump Invasion

Prove me wrong.

Pod Save the World
Greenland Prepares for Trump Invasion

No, that's probably right.

Pod Save the World
Greenland Prepares for Trump Invasion

But I don't know.

Pod Save the World
Greenland Prepares for Trump Invasion

He clearly thinks it's kind of his roaming band of brothers that parachute in and I guess try to resolve conflicts but essentially just extract wealth and resources from places.

Pod Save the World
Greenland Prepares for Trump Invasion

And so to me, it's just like a โ€“

Pod Save the World
Greenland Prepares for Trump Invasion

If it actually happened, it's just a modus operandi for corruption and influence peddling and people kissing his ass and putting Band-Aids on problems instead of solving them like all the eight wars he claims he solved and none of which are actually over.

Pod Save the World
Greenland Prepares for Trump Invasion

And that's the danger.

Pod Save the World
Greenland Prepares for Trump Invasion

And so my recommendation is all the way back to the Greenland thing.

Pod Save the World
Greenland Prepares for Trump Invasion

Nobody should join this thing.

Pod Save the World
Greenland Prepares for Trump Invasion

If Trump wants to have a meeting, by nobody I mean no self-respecting country or foreign leader.

Pod Save the World
Greenland Prepares for Trump Invasion

If Trump wants to have a meeting that's him and Viktor Orban and Lukashenko from Belarus and whatever Gulf Arabs, like, you know, he can kind of

Pod Save the World
Greenland Prepares for Trump Invasion

shakedown into coming to it, make him look ridiculous.

Pod Save the World
Greenland Prepares for Trump Invasion

Like, you should not participate in this.

Pod Save the World
Greenland Prepares for Trump Invasion

This is not a real thing.

Pod Save the World
Greenland Prepares for Trump Invasion

This is not an answer.

Pod Save the World
Greenland Prepares for Trump Invasion

The UN is flawed.