Ben Rhodes

Congratulations, MAGA voters and, you know, isolationist all in potters who thought Trump was this guy that was going to end the imperial foreign policy.

What Stephen Miller is describing is an empire in all the Western Hemisphere, which he keeps describing as our hemisphere.

And when he says our, he doesn't just mean communally we all live here.

It means these are possessions of ours, essentially, which is an insane thing to say.

I mean, these are sovereign countries.

It's a big fucking hemisphere.

Sao Paulo is 5,000 miles from New York.

But in terms of what I expect...

which is always hard with Trump, he seems most focused on two kinds of places, right?

One, are there natural resources there that I can extract and my buddies can get rich off of?

And then I'll probably take some massive backend cut, you know?

So like whatever oil is being drilled in Venezuela 10 years from now, you know, you know,

Trump's kids are like... The Trump library, yeah, it's got a little spigot.

And two, is it some kind of boogeyman, you know, that I can gin up my right-wing base about, right?

So...

For that reason, here are the countries I'm most worried about on his list of places to bomb, right?

On Cuba, I do think that they will try for the regime change.

They've got Marco Rubio.

They've got parts of their political base in Miami.

They would like to see the Cuban regime gone.