Cleo Pascal

I'm on X, just my name, Cleo Pascal, C-L-E-O-P-A-S-K-A-L.

And I don't follow anyone just because of my grumpiness about the algorithm.

So it's not personal if I'm not following you.

It's my own little time against the machine.

Thank you.

So we're going to go back to the story that you and I covered a while back about what's going on in the Commonwealth of Northern Marian Islands.

And there is a map, which might be helpful.

So this is a part of the United States of America.

That's an eight-hour flight west of Hawaii.

It's circled there in dark blue.

So everything in dark blue on that map is the United States of America.

So the thing in the upper right-hand corner, that's the Hawaiian Islands.

And then what's circled over on the left, that's the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands.

So

CNMI is the acronym, and it's just north of Guam.

And what's in green is Taiwan.

So it's actually about half as close to Taiwan as it is to Hawaii.

And

If the balloon goes up in Taiwan, the Chinese are going to have to take Guam and the Marianas offline.

There's a lot of different ways that that could go, but the U.S.