The Case for Optimism on Trump’s Latin America Focus – Foreign Policy

Interview with General Laura J. Richardson, USA (Ret.), Commander of U.S. Southern Command (2021-2024) and Co-Chair of USGLC’s National Security Advisory Council

“As this review gets done, it’s really important to get rid of the things where taxpayer dollars shouldn’t be going. But for the most part, there’s a lot of very important programs that keep our strategic competition for Team USA very much in the game. And where we are not, and where we cede, we cede ground to the axis of aggressors, whether it’s China, Russia, Iran, [or] North Korea.”