I think there are multiple things that you look both short term and long term. As I pointed to in the hemisphere, In our own hemisphere closest to home geographically, it's the growing, the rise and the power of transnational criminal terrorist group who are destabilizing nation states throughout the region and pose a direct threat to the United States. through overthrowing governments, destabilizing these governments, leading to mass migration and certainly the trafficking of drugs and also providing fertile ground for potential, you know, outside of hemisphere actors to act within our hemisphere in the long term, that's a major threat. (1:37:16–1:37:30)
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Asserts that transnational criminal terrorist groups in the hemisphere are destabilizing nations and threatening the U.S.
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