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Speaker 1: A little bit of moment over the weekend on the

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Speaker 1: war as yet again the Coalition of the Willing, which

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Speaker 1: includes US, gathered literally or by zoom to reinforce their

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Speaker 1: view that we need some peace talks and a cease

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Speaker 1: fire for Ukraine. So is this thing actually going anywhere?

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Speaker 1: Geuga political analys Jeffrey Millers back with us on this.

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Speaker 1: Jeffrey morning to.

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Speaker 2: You, Good morning March.

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Speaker 1: This thing Turkey Thursday, Zelenski putent your reckoning of it's real.

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Speaker 2: Look, it could be a huge day on Thursday. So

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Speaker 2: this was Vladimir Putin's counter offer after being faced with

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Speaker 2: this ultimatum of agreeing to a thirty day cease fire

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Speaker 2: by today, Putin proposed a direct talks between Russia and

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Speaker 2: Ukraine and Stanbul on Thursday. Then Trump, just in the

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Speaker 2: last few hours has come in and told Ukraine to

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Speaker 2: accept that, and vlat of Mezelenski has said he will,

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Speaker 2: and he will go there personally, And that is really

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Speaker 2: an ace card on his part because there was no

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Speaker 2: suggestion by Vladimir Putin that he would be there in person.

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Speaker 2: But now he kind of has to respond. So we

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Speaker 2: could see a face to face meeting between Vladimir Putin

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Speaker 2: and Vladim Mezleinski and as symbol on Thursday would be

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Speaker 2: quite extraordinary.

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Speaker 1: Can Putin turn up and just go here? I am,

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Speaker 1: And by the way, Crimea is mine. The stuff I've

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Speaker 1: got currently as mine, as Donald's already told you take

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Speaker 1: it or leave it.

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Speaker 2: Look, there'll be a lot of twists and turns until

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Speaker 2: this war is finally over. And I don't think the

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Speaker 2: talks are going to be over in a day. Is

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Speaker 2: going to take longer than that. But I think it's

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Speaker 2: absolutely necessary. We abserltainly need talks. The only way you're

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Speaker 2: going to get through get an end to this war

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Speaker 2: is through dialogue, diplomacy, de escalation. And I think it's

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Speaker 2: great news really that this is in the offering. I mean,

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Speaker 2: we wait and see whether it latchally materialize, because there's

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Speaker 2: still the chance that Vladima's Lensky and the others will

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Speaker 2: back away in a sense because they won't get the

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Speaker 2: thirty day seeds fire. Because I think it's very unlikely

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Speaker 2: that Vladimir Putin is going to going to do that,

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Speaker 2: that he isn't actually going to lay down his arms

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Speaker 2: and agree.

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Speaker 1: With that which is going to put you back in

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Speaker 1: the American court. Do they that point go, Look, we've

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Speaker 1: done all weekend. You guys don't want to play ball.

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Speaker 1: Don't worry, We're gone. Do you believe that they will

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Speaker 1: step back or not?

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Speaker 2: Look, Donald has the final say here. We've seen that

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Speaker 2: in the past few hours. He told Voladi Mezelenski to

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Speaker 2: go to these talks, and Zilansky is in some ways cave.

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Speaker 2: But also I think he's been smarter than that by

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Speaker 2: saying he will go there personally and expecting person to

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Speaker 2: do the same. So in the end, Donald Trump is

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Speaker 2: calling the shots here. And that's always been the case,

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Speaker 2: despite the unity by these European leaders and the coalition

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Speaker 2: of the winning which includes New Zealand and Kirstarma name

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Speaker 2: check New Zanders mostly supporters. So but Donald Trump in

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Speaker 2: the end is always the man who everyone is looking

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Speaker 2: to here. And it's really Donald Trump's game, and he's

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Speaker 2: playing it, and he's playing it in a very different

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Speaker 2: way to everyone else.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to the other war just quickly. Trump's into

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Speaker 1: the Middle East this week and he's touted some sort

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Speaker 1: of announcement like you've never heard an announcement whipby. Do

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Speaker 1: do you have any idea what that is, and we're

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Speaker 1: going to get to any tangible progress you think this

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Speaker 1: week on it or not.

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Speaker 2: Well, the talk is that he will recognize the Palestinian

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Speaker 2: state that's been denied, but I don't know. I mean,

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Speaker 2: it will be a significant can visit this week. It's

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Speaker 2: his first major foreign trip. Of course Donald Trump went

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Speaker 2: to the Pope's funeral, Pope France's funeral, but it will

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Speaker 2: be his first major foreign trip again to the Gulf,

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Speaker 2: just like he did back in twenty seventeen was his

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Speaker 2: first major trip and that was a significant one. So

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Speaker 2: you know, we shouldn't forget all of We've got all

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Speaker 2: of these conflicts going on around us. We had India

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Speaker 2: and Pakistan seemingly resolved over the weekend with a ceasefire,

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Speaker 2: and we've got, of course the Middle East on the

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Speaker 2: agenda as well. So there are awful lot of balls

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Speaker 2: in the air, heem Mike, and we disciperately need solutions

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Speaker 2: to all of them. I think Donald Trump's unconventional approach

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Speaker 2: to diplomacy it can bear fruit, and we're perhaps seeing

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Speaker 2: that with what's happened over the last few hours with Ukraine.

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Speaker 1: Well, the types of Jeffrey go well appreciate your expertise

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Speaker 1: international geopolitical andalist Jeffrey Miller. For more from the Mic

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