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CVS I in the world. I'm John Bachelor. The Weymar Republic you've heard it in 20th century history as the decision by the Germans after the first war, the great war,

to have a government of Bundestag and the President of the Reich.

The President of the Reich was directly elected by the people.

The Bundestag was representative.

Dominating the Bundestag at the time was the Social Democratic Party, SBD, it ruled in coalition through the 20s and 30s and then the catastrophe.

Well, I mentioned that because I welcome Judy Dempsey of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

She is the editor-chief of Strategic Europe.

And her most recent column introduces us to the Weimar one more time, because 1991 it was the meeting place of three important

foreign ministers at the edge of the crash of the Soviet state. The three foreign ministers were France, Germany, and Poland.

All these decades later, France, Germany, and Poland meet again. Follow the story now because the

Social Democratic Party is coming back that is led by now Olaf Schultz the

Chancellor of Germany,

a man who is extremely involved in the Ukraine war in funding it.

Germany is number two for funding the Ukraine resistance. However, the conversations in the meeting of the

three leaders of these countries, Donald Tusk from Poland, Manonon from France,

and Olav Schultz from Germany took surprising turns.

Judy, beg pardon introduction,

but it's always great fun to review the 20th century

when we're talking about the 21st. The scars of the 20th remain

with us. What is the subject that Mr McCrone intended for this conversation, these four days ago, was the 15th good evening to you.

Good evening John and just to let your listeners know since we're talking about

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