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I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

The world. The word woke is an evocative one, especially as a major battle line in American politics.

The key point is to define it. When we do and then crunch some data, we find that the country seems to have passed peak woke.

And it is a huge date in the global calendar of football.

Not the real kind, the video game kind.

It's time for the latest update of the world-beating game that for decades was simply called FIFA.

We ask why it's not anymore. First up, though, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky is once again doing the rounds in America.

And we are grateful to America for supporting Ukraine all along.

Later today, he'll meet Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

Yesterday, he was in Washington meeting with supporters, Vice President Kamala Harris and President Biden.

We stand with Ukraine now and in the future.

After a handful of trips to the U.S. since the war began, it's all a bit familiar.

But this trip may matter more than others, because who wins the White House in November

will determine how much support Ukraine will get in the future,

and in turn, perhaps, how the war on Ukraine ends.

President Zeletsky is in America because it's an intense time for global diplomacy generally.

The world's leaders are there for the UN General Assembly.

Daniel Franklin is our senior U.S. editor.

But it's also a critical moment for Ukraine, both diplomatically and on the battlefield,

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