Ben Rhodes

They're not spending 5% of their GDP on defense.

It's not something happening in the real world.

He has not ended eight wars.

We've covered that.

He's not ended any of them.

Last I checked.

But he's allowed to believe...

this cartoon because he has his own state media, but also because the actual media just repeats these fictions.

This man, the emperor has no clothes.

And unless collectively,

foreign leaders, congressional leaders in this country, media, citizens, and by the way, it's citizens who are doing it in Minneapolis, start to just call complete bullshit on this guy.

Like, he's going to drive this entire world off a cliff.

Well, you need a little levity.

I just... It's a reason to bother to subscribe to us on YouTube.

Yeah.

Because if you saw the glasses, I think you'd be laughing with us.

Yeah, I mean, look, the red line thing in which we live was about chemical weapons use, and then when chemical weapons were used, there was not a military strike.

And look, we can relive that.

I accept the criticism, though, that if you say it's a red line, that at a minimum, you shouldn't have used that kind of foreshadowing and then not followed through on it.

And the reason I make this point and to connect it to everything else today is I do think that