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Ben Rhodes

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Pod Save the World
Greenland Prepares for Trump Invasion

The African Union kind of defers to him.

Pod Save the World
Greenland Prepares for Trump Invasion

I noticed they didn't exactly, you know, mount any

Pod Save the World
Greenland Prepares for Trump Invasion

concerns about the result.

Pod Save the World
Greenland Prepares for Trump Invasion

But Museveni, I noticed in the talk with you, he even went out of his way to say that he's not senile.

Pod Save the World
Greenland Prepares for Trump Invasion

I will tell you, Yusra, I was in a meeting with him 10 years ago.

Pod Save the World
Greenland Prepares for Trump Invasion

It was a multilateral meeting held in Ethiopia about South Sudan.

Pod Save the World
Greenland Prepares for Trump Invasion

And in that meeting, he wasn't

Pod Save the World
Greenland Prepares for Trump Invasion

I mean, I don't want to – I will resist being a doctor, but let's just say he wasn't the sharpest guy at the roundtable that I was at.

Pod Save the World
Greenland Prepares for Trump Invasion

He had to kind of be reminded of some of the agenda and stuff.

Pod Save the World
Greenland Prepares for Trump Invasion

What is your sense of his faculties, what he's trying to do?

Pod Save the World
Greenland Prepares for Trump Invasion

He has a son.

Pod Save the World
Greenland Prepares for Trump Invasion

who's kind of the Don Jr.

Pod Save the World
Greenland Prepares for Trump Invasion

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?