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Speaker 1: If you've got a feel for Vodimir Zelenski. On weeks

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Speaker 1: like this, Saturday is the big day Friday their times,

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Speaker 1: Saturday hours, Putin will fly to Alaska and meet with

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Speaker 1: Trump for a cup of tea in a biscuit. Lovely,

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Speaker 1: they will hash out the terms of a ceasefire for

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Speaker 1: what the Russians are calling the Ukraine crisis, rather than

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Speaker 1: a bloody war that they started. The body count is astonishing.

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Speaker 1: It's as astonishing as the fact that there is a

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Speaker 1: war raging in Europe. In twenty twenty five, one million

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Speaker 1: Russian soldiers have been killed or injured, four hundred thousand

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Speaker 1: for the Ukrainian side, including sixty to one hundred thousand dead.

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Speaker 1: The Russians now occupy about twenty percent of Ukraine. And

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Speaker 1: the guy responsible for this hell fire is not being

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Speaker 1: dragged by some soldiers into an international criminal court to

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Speaker 1: face charges. No, he's about to be welcomed, wined and

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Speaker 1: dined by the most powerful man in the world to

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Speaker 1: discuss the terms for as Sea, which includes keeping land

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Speaker 1: that is not entitle to If we put ourselves in

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Speaker 1: Ukrainian shoes for just a second, if war was to

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Speaker 1: return to the Pacific theater. It would be like Washington

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Speaker 1: and Beijing meeting to decide that China can keep and

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Speaker 1: occupy all of the land north of Auckland simply because

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Speaker 1: they took it, and you meant to sit back and

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Speaker 1: be grateful that at least the fighting will stop. Ukrainians

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Speaker 1: certainly aren't ready to roll over on territory. The Europeans

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Speaker 1: are huddling around Zelenski now to give them some moral support,

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Speaker 1: but they need more than cuddles and handshakes to bandage

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Speaker 1: over what must feel like an insult to their country

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Speaker 1: and to their sovereignty. Two global superpowers meeting far far

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Speaker 1: away in Alaska and deciding the fate of their nation.

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