… the saber rattling against Greenland, the extracting Nicolas Maduro out of Venezuela, engaging in another oil war, do you think that's an effort to distract from Trump's failures at home? It's not unusual when a president is growing unpopular and their economy is getting weaker in this or a lot of other countries, it's not unusual for them to turn to foreign war as an attempt to divert resources and attention from their failures at home. And it's an example of a pattern that I think we can expect more of over the coming year, which is, on one hand, Donald Trump is growing weaker. (14:40–14:58)
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