Ben Rhodes

It's a really scary movie.

And yet...

The reaction is this combination of on the right, like Fox News, Donald Trump, he's the greatest man, you should give him the Nobel Prize.

And even the mainstream media is more like, let's do the TikTok of the military operation.

And is this good for Trump?

Or what are Democrats going to say?

And it's like...

I don't know, the period of history that it feels like we're living through now, is this what it was like in other countries?

And I'm not going to draw the analogies.

I'll let people listening use their own, but maybe this is what it's like.

You conquer country after country and the state media is like Fox and everybody else is a little too scared to say that this isn't normal.

I'm getting a little existential here, but I

Yeah.

Well, and to take it to Venezuela, there's no more clarity on what's actually going to happen there right now.

I mean, like, you know, Delce Rodriguez is in charge.

What happens tomorrow and the next day?

Like, is the opposition going to be brought in at all?

How are the oil companies going to get in there?

Like, who's going to rebuild the oil infrastructure?

Who's going to pay for that?