Ben Rhodes
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There's a lot of economic interests that could be
developed in Cuba in the tourist ministry that like Trump, I know for a fact, by the way, Tommy, when I, cause I did the Cuban negotiations, the Trump organization was down scouting like golf and hotel properties in Cuba in 2016.
So Cuba's both an ideological thing for them, but it's also like a money grab.
And I would not expect that to necessarily be a new Bay of Pigs invasion.
They'll probably see if they can do it with some kind of covert sabotage type stuff, squeeze the regime.
Like at the end of the day, they may just do another one of these kinds of things and see how it goes.
I don't think it'll go well, but we can get to that later.
Mexico, I do think all the chest-thumping about drug trafficking and fentanyl, there is this kind of momentum towards strikes in Mexico, not for regime change, but to kind of show that we're going to take shots in Mexico.
That deals with his political base on drugs.
Greenland, I would be very, very surprised.
if they don't try to seize Greenland.
I put it at above 50% because that's the resource-rich place.
There's all this stuff up there, right?
There's critical minerals and there's oil and gas.
And so those three, Greenland, Cuba, and potentially strikes in Mexico.
Petro, Colombia seems crazy to me, especially because Colombia's gonna have an election.
And, you know, I don't know.
It's helping his politics.
It's helping him politically.