Ben Rhodes

Yeah.

So we're going to talk about Mexico for a minute and we'll get to Cuba later.

Here's Trump talking about Mexico last week on Sean Hannity's show on Fox.

So it sure seems like he's talking about bombing Mexico there.

It's not the first time either.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum adamantly opposes any U.S.

intervention in Mexico.

On Monday, she said she reiterated that message during a recent phone call with Donald Trump and also told him that Mexico did not support the Maduro operation.

The New York Times quoted a senior official in the Mexican government as saying the Maduro operation made them worry that, quote, we are on the list of who could be next and worse, we have been warned.

The administration's indictment of Maduro mentioned Mexico 25 times.

It claims that the former Venezuelan strongman partnered with drug traffickers, including the Sinaloa cartel, to transfer cocaine through Mexico to the U.S.

and then money back to Venezuela.

So again, we're going to talk about Cuba in a minute, but Mexico has also been a big supplier of oil to Cuba.

Since the Maduro operation, I think last week, a tanker carrying roughly 90,000 barrels of oil arrived in Havana from Mexico.

Shane Baum says those shipments are humanitarian aid, but Trump's not going to like that answer.

So it's just interesting to see all the ways the Mexican government is pushing back on Trump.

And all the irritants here.

And and it just it feels like the odds of a U.S.

strike on Mexico just keep going up and up.

But I'm wondering how you're interpreting that now.