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Vladimir Putin has launched an attack on Ukraine, starting the first major war in Europe since the Second World War.

What more can the United States do to help? Let's get on topic. Welcome to On Topic, a weekly in-depth look at a topic that helps us understand the week's news. My name's Renato Mariati. I'm a former federal

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check out for 20% off. All right baddie I got to tell you this has been really something. It's the first time I think since the start of the pandemic where the pandemic is totally off the front page.

Everybody is talking about this horrific war,

brutal war against Ukraine.

And you know, the images that we were starting to see,

look, we sort of have in our minds how horrific it would be.

When you see young people in the streets who have died, you know, we know there are so many tragic stories. We're only getting a glimpse of that. It's just absolutely heartbreaking and infuriating of, you know, a huge role in this

we do have a huge role in this because of Trump's leadership and of course our role globally.

It's just, it obviously knocks everything else out of the headlines and deserves our full attention. And yet it makes us feel helpless. We can talk about it. But most of us feel like it's been out of our hands for years.

Yeah, I have to say though, you know, I give credit to the Biden administration because

one thing they did that was actually being criticized for a little while is they had intelligence that this was going to happen and they let the entire world know in advance.

This is going to happen. Here's our

intelligence. Putin is planning to do this. So that this way, any pretext like

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