Buck Sexton

But the reason they're having these communications and back channel is.

Look, it's a repressive police state, and our collection on it, such as it is, is probably pretty good, but you really only have a handful of people who are going to be making very important decisions at the top about what is going to go down there if things go down, right?

I mean, if things get...

I don't know what it would be necessarily.

Right.

But you're going to have to have a group of people that have an access to enough power to effectuate some kind of a a transfer of power.

And how do you know you don't know this until you do it?

I mean, this is just the reality, I think, of whether it's internal collapse, externally forced coup, whatever it may be.

uh you know you don't really know who is going to be running through the running through the royal palace calling the shots until they're doing it right and that's the part of this i bet rubio is trying to spec out right now because you know cuba it should be so it should be such a great place and it should be so much easier for the people there to enjoy their lives and enjoy freedom that it is um but on the other hand we obviously have a history of

Not being able to make things better for them there.

And a long history of kind of cutting them off with the, you know, with the trade and everything else.

So I think I'm much more bullish on Venezuela starting to go the right way than I am any imminent action on Cuba, because I still think there are just too many unknowns.

But I could be wrong on that one.

We like the oil flow.

They do well.

We turn the oil off, they're toast.

So, we have a lot of leverage.

Yeah, look, I'll say this about it.

First of all, my idea was behind the book, after when COVID stuff finally started to recede, the madness, I was like, okay, guys, we just had a little trial run of totalitarian thought control in this country, and we failed.

And we need to understand how this stuff happens.