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We're coming to you in the middle of an absolutely crazy week.

How are you doing, Ryan?

Well, we haven't gone over the cliff yet.

Not yet, but it's coming.

The whole economy has not been blown up.

Vladimir Zelensky and Chairman Xi met, spoke on the phone yesterday that could be a step

toward a Chinese broker piece.

Even the United States believes that China might be the only one that has remotely the credibility

to broker something.

We're all waiting, I guess, for this spring offensive to finish off.

It seems kind of morbid that people seem to know this war has to end at some point, but

hold on, we're just going to do a couple more months of carnage and then we'll end it.

And then just saying, how about all of those people can live, have grandchildren, etc.

And the war now.

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