Ben Rhodes

And so suddenly it's not just a Taiwan question.

What else is China going to try to grab?

What else is Russia going to grab?

And ultimately, as happened in World War One and World War Two, when you have expansionist empires, they bump into each other and they end up fighting a war with each other.

And it may not start like the day after we take Greenland, but that is the course that he is setting us on by doing this and by having this fucking, you know.

two bit like Jeff Sessions, staffer, cosplay fascist, who thinks he's like a NATO geopolitics expert.

And you're talking about like our right to Greenland is we shouldn't be.

No, and everything, like this is a really important point.

And like, you know, we have some listeners I know who've been following this kind of stuff for years.

And it's like, these people like Lindsey Graham have showed up as defenders of democracy in the world for like decades, right?

Like back to the John McCain days.

But that was all bullshit.

They sold out Maria Machado the day that Trump decided that he'd rather deal with the Maduro regime people.

They sold out Europe the day that the Republican Party became a far-right ethno-nationalist party.

Don't trust these people.

They're the wrong people.

And their ideas are dangerous.

And the reality is this Greenland thing, it's going to come to a head.

We're not one year into Trump.

You think in the next three years he's not going to try to make a play on Greenland?