Ben Rhodes
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What is he thinking?
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.
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.
Prove me wrong.
No, that's probably right.
But I don't know.
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.
And so to me, it's just like a โ
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.
And that's the danger.
And so my recommendation is all the way back to the Greenland thing.
Nobody should join this thing.
If Trump wants to have a meeting, by nobody I mean no self-respecting country or foreign leader.
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
shakedown into coming to it, make him look ridiculous.
Like, you should not participate in this.
This is not a real thing.
This is not an answer.
The UN is flawed.