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Ben Rhodes

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of Uganda, who's constantly making threats online.

Pod Save the World
Greenland Prepares for Trump Invasion

He's threatened to kill opposition figures.

Pod Save the World
Greenland Prepares for Trump Invasion

He's threatened to invade Kenya.

Pod Save the World
Greenland Prepares for Trump Invasion

What is the current state of President Museveni and kind of his succession plan and his approach to politics based on your time with him?

Pod Save the World
Greenland Prepares for Trump Invasion

That raises the question, though, whether that's how people see it, which gets to the opposition and also just the people of Uganda.

Pod Save the World
Greenland Prepares for Trump Invasion

Bobby Wine is 43.

Pod Save the World
Greenland Prepares for Trump Invasion

He kind of comes out of the arts there, a musician who went into politics, generated a lot of excitement, showed a lot of personal courage by staying in the country when he kind of could have chosen the path of exile.

Pod Save the World
Greenland Prepares for Trump Invasion

But as you pointed out, 70% of Uganda is under 30, right?

Pod Save the World
Greenland Prepares for Trump Invasion

He may be paternalistic, but it's hard to imagine an 81-year-old kind of being in touch with the concerns of the 70% of his people that are young.

Pod Save the World
Greenland Prepares for Trump Invasion

What is your sense of โ€“ is it fatalism that this is just the way things are?

Pod Save the World
Greenland Prepares for Trump Invasion

Is it anger?

Pod Save the World
Greenland Prepares for Trump Invasion

Is there any hope of changing things through politics?

Pod Save the World
Greenland Prepares for Trump Invasion

Do they want the โ€“

Pod Save the World
Greenland Prepares for Trump Invasion

anything out of the international community, which doesn't really exist anymore.

Pod Save the World
Greenland Prepares for Trump Invasion

What's your sense of that younger population and what's next for this opposition movement that has now tried this with Bobby Wine twice, through no fault of his own, really, just kind of can't do things through democratic means?

Pod Save the World
Greenland Prepares for Trump Invasion

What's the mood, do you think, among younger Ugandans?

Pod Save the World
Greenland Prepares for Trump Invasion

Well, look, I think that's a very important and powerful picture.

Pod Save the World
Greenland Prepares for Trump Invasion

And I think you're kind of describing this moment where the balance is really tipped in this kind of strongman direction.

Pod Save the World
Greenland Prepares for Trump Invasion

Museveni, Kagame in Rwanda, you know, Ruto in Kenya.

Pod Save the World
Greenland Prepares for Trump Invasion

But we go to Cameroon.