Nika Kovacs
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
They didn't want to change the Cuban, Venezuelan, Iranian governments.
Why he's doing this flies in the face of anything that, with the exception of small pockets of diaspora populations, like hardline Cubans, Iranian monarchists, Venezuelan diaspora.
military should not be a mercenary force for like a small number of people in diaspora populations.
So Sarkozy, I had the occasion of being in rooms with him a lot.
And my favorite thing about Sarkozy was he had this interpreter who was a younger and attractive woman.
If I'm allowed to say that.
But it was kind of the point.
I'm French and I've got... I'm French and I have a hot translator.
But the funny thing about it is she would not just translate.
She would mimic
his gestures.
And so Sarkozy would gesture a lot.
So he'd puff out his chest and she would too.
And he'd pound on the table and she would too.
And sometimes he'd pull his lapels and she would too.
It was the most bizarre thing.
But it made it entertaining.