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in all bookshops and online right now. Welcome to Beg to Beg to Differ the Bulwerks Weekly Roundtable

discussion featuring civil conversation across the political spectrum.

We range from center left to center right.

I'm Mona Charon, syndicated columnist and policy editor at the Bullwork,

and I am joined by our regulars, Bill Galston of the Brookings Institution and the Wall Street Journal,

Damon Linker of the Week, and Linda Chavez of the Niskannon Center.

Our special guest this week is Corey Schockey, who is Director of Foreign and Defense Policy at the American Enterprise Institute.

So welcome, one and all I want to say just by way of introduction that Kori Shaki is the nicest

big shot that you will ever meet.

So I really appreciate you sharing your expertise with us today.

So let me just set the scene. There has been

this quotation from Vladimir Lenin, someone I'm not usually fond of quoting, but it is apt.

He said, there are decades where nothing happens and there are weeks where decades happen.

And this week, looking at the completely changed complexion of the world because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

It's possible to say this is one of those weeks when a decade seems to have happened or more

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