David McCloskey

And I think who better, Gordon, to explain the Monroe Doctrine than a British imperialist such as yourself.

This has probably been a very busy time for the Monroe Doctrine Wikipedia page.

We're only 11 years out at that point from you burning the White House, Gordon.

Your own Operation Absolute Resolve to sort of torch our White House was a mere 11 years before it.

Well, yeah, I mean, I guess you could look at... This is more symbolic than anything, but I think it's illustrative of a sort of state of mind, you know, renaming the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of America, talking about Canada as the 51st state.

I shouldn't laugh, no offense to our Canadian friends.

And of course, I mean, the talk about...

getting a hold of Greenland, which we talked about on episodes 22 and 23 of The Rest Disclassified, Gordon.

I mean, this is maybe a feature, not a bug of Donald Trump's foreign policy.

And I mean, I guess it's also been pretty much elaborated and made official in the national security strategy that came out just a month ago.

It also portrays Latin America as a source of chaos to be managed by the US, doesn't it?

It's a hotbed of the drug trade.

It's the source of

immigration flows to the U.S.

that could be destabilizing.

It's a battleground for foreign influence between the U.S.

and China, right?

So it's this wild neighborhood, I think, in the sort of language of the national security strategy that the U.S.

needs to tame.

I mean, I think the...