00:00The international relations expert warns that the United States sees the Caribbean as its third border
00:07and stresses the region must take this seriously.
00:12He believes President Donald Trump is ready to stand his ground and he's not bluffing.
00:18Henry says this cannot be a one-way transaction.
00:22We have to become sober and pragmatic.
00:24So my question is for the Honourable Prime Minister to volunteer, to unsolicitly present our region
00:34and more so our nation as a lodging pad to support or defend any probable attack.
00:41The question has to be had, to what benefit?
00:44What is the benefit that Trinidad has received or will receive to be placing a welcome mark to the US?
00:52He points out that international negotiations, whether with Russia or India, always involve trade-offs.
01:00Henry highlights recent talks between President Putin and the US President.
01:05He questions the motives behind taking a military stance, warning that without clear benefits, the strategy appears highly questionable.
01:15We must take an all-aligned strategy whereby, yes, we remain friends, very cordial with the United States,
01:21but we have our neighbours, because the truth is, to the Honourable Prime Minister's position,
01:28I would remind her, this was the same Prime Minister who said that, you know, when it comes to drugs and crime,
01:35it's not on the seas, it's on the nation's streets.
01:39But now, ten years later, it's relevant and it's imminent, and we are willing to invite some form of conflagration.
01:46Henry warns that the region remains vulnerable and stresses that the government must be cautious in every move it makes in such high-stakes situations.
01:58Any type of conflagration that happens in Venezuela, Trinidad will not be spared of its consequences,
02:05be it trade, be it people, and I am not aware that our government has any sort of arrangement in place
02:13to deal with such conflagrations and such an outpouring of people, of guns, of any form of displacement.
02:21So we have to be very sober of our statements.
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