From the Abraham Lincoln radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong

and Joe Getty, Armstrong and Getty Show.

I gotta say, I usually think the gatherings of world leaders are way overblown as news

stories, much of the time in my life.

This is not a minor story, the meeting that's going on right now with the seven biggest

economies in the world that aren't China, meeting as a way to try to figure out how to counter

China and Russia, but specifically China.

And it's a big deal.

Oh, it's a huge deal.

It's the only deal.

But as I pointed out last hour, there are a lot of...

The US is willing to back up its words with actions, with money, with a little bit of

brawn, and the euros as usual are like, yeah, you probably ought to do that.

But we sell them a lot of cars, and we're kind of dependent on them.

And Putin gets us our natural gas.

So, you know, thanks.

But yeah.

Added together, these seven countries represent 40% of the world's economy.

So if they got together on something, they could put some pretty pressure, pretty big

pressure on the number two economy in the world.

But you know, as you just mentioned, then getting together is more difficult than it sounds.

Well, we try to get them to agree to a serious, serious statement, and then a set of actions,

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