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This is CBSI in the world.

I'm John Betcher, my colleague and co-host Bill Rajo,

the Senior Fellow Foundation for Defense of Democracy.

And we're joined by John Hardy of FD, who's watching the Ukrainian-Russian conflict, at the same time watching NATO prepare for a future where Russia remains a revisionist state and hostile to European

security. The expectation of the NATO meeting underway this week

in Northern Europe was a discussion of what is to be done for Ukraine in its stout defense of its

sovereignty from the Russian invader now more than three years. With the Iran conflict all of a sudden turning from diplomacy and

...