Ben Rhodes
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Do you think they're right?
What are you watching for?
No.
Well, fentanyl's a WMD now.
This is the thing I did want to talk about.
Like, I'm not a fan of the Cuban government.
It is a one party rule.
There's rampant, you know, systemic political repression and detentions and activists and journalists get thrown in prison.
And some people get tortured and there's restrictions on speech and the media.
It's a police.
There's evidence of, you know, political prisoners, maybe some coercive labor practices.
You could say every one of those things about our closest allies in the Gulf.
And Mohammed bin Salman gets welcomed into the Oval Office.
50 countries.
Fetted with state dinners.
And Cuba gets crippling sanctions that primarily punish the Cuban people most of all.
It's just like the imbalance of the policy to the problem is so crazy.
Yeah, it just does not seem like a good use of time and resources.
Or humanity.
It's real cold war shit here.