David McCloskey

So again, I think there's a hearkening back, to say the least, of an era where, at least under Trump, the US will say, it's our way or the highway in the Western Hemisphere.

Well, yeah, I mean, play that one out, right?

Because I think we talked in those episodes that I think the frightening, from the US perspective, the frightening development would be if Greenland actually sought formal independence and secured formal independence from Denmark.

and then you know offered concessions minerals uh you know sort of ports to china even to russia right that that would that would be the kind of situation where you know what happened to maduro or what's going on in venezuela could directly apply because i would argue that greenland is much more important strategically uh at least at least the use of of greenland sort of as a

US military outpost, that is more important strategically to the US than anything that's going on in Venezuela.

Have you seen this one, Gordon, making the rounds, by the way, this picture?

I don't think I can actually... I don't know if our intrepid... Is that the picture of... Of the horse?

Now, there's a picture... So if you're on the video, you could probably see it now.

There's a picture of a horse...

And the back third is exquisitely stenciled and drawn.

And it says, Special Forces Operation to Capture Maduro.

And then the head and the front legs look like they're drawn by a four-year-old child with a crayon.

And it says, Plans for Future of Venezuela.

That, you know, is the sort of dynamic that we're in.

I mean, Trump, you know, said, and I think Secretary of State Rubio has tried to walk this back a little bit.

But Trump said in the press conference over the weekend, you know, he was asked who who is going to be running the country.

And then Trump turns and looks at Rubio, Pete Hegseth, and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Trump says, the people that are standing right behind me, we're going to be running it, he said, pointing back at the three men.

So, like, it's very unclear.

But...

Obviously, if you're a Venezuelan politician or military official now, you have to think a little bit differently about how you accommodate the United States because it is pretty clear there are plans to do more in Venezuela should Trump see fit to do so.