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Speaker 1: A little bit early. I mean, given it's a short week,

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Speaker 1: but at four and a halfish weeks into epic fury,

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Speaker 1: a reason to be depressed and a reason to be hopeful.

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Speaker 1: Bad news. First, this hasn't been a great week for

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Speaker 1: the Americans. They've been left with talks that may or

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Speaker 1: may not be happening, in a lot of rhetoric that

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Speaker 1: sounds like last week's rhetoric. We've won. There's nothing left,

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Speaker 1: we could leave any time, except the missiles that fall

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Speaker 1: on Israel seem to indicate that for a place that's

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Speaker 1: been bombed to flatness, they keep finding things to fire.

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Speaker 1: And that's before you got to the hacking of cash

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Speaker 1: Betel's phone, which was just plain embarrassing. Trump's demeanor didn't

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Speaker 1: help either. A winner doesn't whine, and man has he

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Speaker 1: whined a lot this week, to the point it appears

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Speaker 1: he will end the war as predicted, but has worked

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Speaker 1: up a narrative that allows him to avoid the small

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Speaker 1: issue of hermus which is of course why he's whining.

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Speaker 1: He's cocked it up one way or another. The fact

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Speaker 1: they didn't see the Gulf States being attacked and didn't

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Speaker 1: see a waterway being used as ransom. We'll go down

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Speaker 1: in the US military history as yet another interventionist cock

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Speaker 1: up new timeline bit of a worry two to three

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Speaker 1: weeks fits in roughly with the four to six weeks trouble,

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Speaker 1: though if you follow Trump, he uses the two to

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Speaker 1: three weeks line a lot on a lot of different

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Speaker 1: things that, as it turns out, don't take two to

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Speaker 1: three weeks, almost as though he's making it up as

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Speaker 1: he goes along. Also not great as nt Nyahu, who

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Speaker 1: claim though, were a bid over halfway as far as

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Speaker 1: targets go, which is not two to three weeks, given

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Speaker 1: it's almost five. But good news. The Iranian president has

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Speaker 1: said they will stop if they get a guarantee that

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Speaker 1: they're not attacked again. And this is part of the

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Speaker 1: excess strategy of course, a bitter back and forward nuclear

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Speaker 1: material cleared, regime largely gone, some sort of rebuild money sorted,

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Speaker 1: and it's kind of got a Gaza two point zero

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Speaker 1: vibe about it, don't you reckon? Then? Of course, two

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Speaker 1: pm this afternoon, addressed to the world an important update.

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Speaker 1: Does that have the makings of the end? Let's see.

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Speaker 1: Possibly it's more about NATO, but the driving forces are

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Speaker 1: the driving forces that have been at play all along.

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Speaker 1: Petrol and America cost too much. The cost of living

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Speaker 1: is up, hirings down, Recession fears are up, the midterms

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Speaker 1: are coming. As we said last week, Trump might be mad,

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Speaker 1: but on the political survival front, self interest is a

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Speaker 1: finally owned skill of his. For more from the Mic

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