""We live in a world in which you can talk all you want about international niceties and everything else," Miller said. "But we live in a world, in the real world, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power." "These are the iron laws of the world that existed since the beginning of time.""
""This flies in the face of the whole point of what we have learned as a country and as a species, especially in the 20th century," Buttigieg responded. "One of America's greatest accomplishments was leading humanity out of that, into a world where values and rules matter, at least as much as brute force. "Dragging us into the past with that kind of ideological bulls**t will make Americans less safe. It doesn't have to be this way.""
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller asserted that the United States is "in charge" of Venezuela and suggested readiness to use military force to take Greenland. He framed international relations as governed by strength, force and power, calling those the "iron laws" of the world. Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg rejected that framework, saying 20th-century progress moved humanity toward a rules- and values-based order alongside power constraints. Buttigieg warned that returning to a brute-force ideology would reduce American safety and argued that such a return is unnecessary.
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