Yep. This is just a woman talking about the high stakes world of geopolitics.
This is like going to a gang drive by shooting trial and questioning the guy that built their super bad ride, and all the ins and outs of fining a junkyard with a good transmission to rebuild and getting a good deal on the gold metalflake paint.
i.e. in a sane world (or court of law) this would have been nixed in the first five seconds.
...”the US was wokening” ?