Ben Rhodes
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And like, I don't know, if you're the Russians, an existential threat to you might be $50, $40 a barrel oil, right?
Imagine Venezuela gets up and running like they actually get this done.
There's the Iranian regime is toppled.
That oil starts to flow like Russia's cooked, right?
Like you can imagine some people might throw some sand in the gears.
All right, so tracking all the places that the Trump administration has bombed or is threatening to bomb, it's getting very difficult.
So my has bombed list includes Venezuela, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Nigeria, Yemen, and Somalia.
Let me know if I forgot any.
And then the kind of like overtly or implicitly threatening to bomb, invade or topple the government list includes Greenland, Cuba, Panama, Colombia, Canada and Mexico.
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.