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So around the table.
All the Europeans said they made warnings to Iran.
You better show restraint.
Not one of them challenged Israel for having just bombed Iran.
I actually, ironically, had a little colloquy with the ambassador to Denmark because I went up to her after her speech.
rather shocking words, and said that how much I like Denmark.
And in a publication that I co-edit every year, the World Happiness Report, Denmark's always at the top, the happiest country in the world.
And she was very happy.
She smiled at me.
And then I said, but wouldn't it be nice if you mentioned not Iran's restraint, but that Israel just bombed Iran?
She turned around and walked out without a word.
That's the level of the reality.
Same thing happened with the kidnapping of Maduro.
All they could get out of their mouth was, well, he's a terrible person or he's an illegitimate president.
No one could say a word about the United States brazenly violating the U.N.
charter and its implications.
So you're completely right.
I don't want to attack the Europeans when they're being attacked, but I do want to say that, uh,
consistency that actually we should follow some principles is what keeps us all alive, we hope.
And if Europe doesn't utter a word when the United States makes every abuse, every regime change, every covert operation, every bombing, every complicity in Israel's crimes,