Jessica Tarlov
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Like, we've been fed a ton of lies, right?
We heard that it was about drugs, and that's why they're taking out little drug trafficking boats that are actually taking cocaine to Suriname, not even coming here.
That was the one with the lethal double tap strike.
Then we hear that it's about oil, but the state of the oil industry there is in complete disrepair, right?
It's going to take, you give $100 billion, I've heard, between $60 and $100 billion to rejuvenate it up to a decade to get that to be profitable in any way.
And Donald Trump said, I talked to the oil companies, but Reuters disputed that.
They, I guess, spoke to the oil companies themselves and said that they weren't given the heads up.
So basically, this was like a go-it-alone situation.
mission to a large degree on behalf of the administration, no Congress or even business influence.
So what do you make of the fact that people seem to not be emphasizing the impact of
Does that in some way, I'm not saying making it justifiable, but I can certainly understand why it is not a good thing for those actors to be operating in our hemisphere and this close to us, you know, as a rationale for doing something.
Well, we're definitely seeing that at play.
And the idea of choosing to be a regional superpower when you could be a global superpower seems silly to me.
But we are seeing the reaction from European nations.
Just this morning, there was a joint European statement in defense of Greenland.
and Denmark as a NATO ally.
And the Danish prime minister spoke out yesterday and basically saying that NATO will end if Donald Trump does this, if he pushes forward and tries to take over Greenland.
He's also listed Colombia, Mexico and Cuba on the list of
hot spots or hot spots, as far as he thinks, places to use this same kind of policy where you could say that you were carrying out some sort of law enforcement operation versus doing regime change, calling it just leadership change, which is, you know, what it is.
It just happens to be the same leadership.