This is Michael Cohen and you're listening to the Mayor Copa podcast.

It was an event the queen was personally involved in planning on Monday we'll see the full

spectacle of her state funeral layout in central London.

This week the president of the First Lady Biden will fly the London ditch their private

helicopter and take a bus to the official funeral of Queen Elizabeth II.

The international trip just weeks before the midterms is being used to both pay respect

to the Queen and her enduring commitment to democracy and to push back against or to

critic forces currently threatening the globe.

And with the eyes of the world upon him Biden will return to New York and address the

UN General Assembly while he will urge support for the Ragtag group of fighters reinforced

with Western weapons who are putting up stunning victories against a much larger war machine.

The Russian retreat is one of the biggest defeats since the war began in February.

Queen's president says so far this month 6,000 square kilometres of once occupied territory

has been retaken from Russian forces.

America's most senior diplomat calls it encouraging.

This on the heels of somewhat disturbing summit between Russia and China were Putin and

Gigi Ping presented a united front as a counterbalance to the United States and our allies.

In other words, it was too strong and flexing their autocratic muscle as a sort of fuck

you to democracy in general.

But with little Ukraine kicking Mother Russia's ass, Putin showed up hat and hand and had to

concede that there were questions and concerns regarding his bloody invasion of Ukraine that

every country, not so secretly worries, will destabilize the entire planet.

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