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Thank you. It's Monday, the 10th of March, welcome to the PDB afternoon bulletin.

I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage.

All right, let's get briefed.

First up, following President Trump's sharp reversal of U.S.

policies on Ukraine last week, European nations are now scrambling to find their own solutions to countering Russian aggression, with Germany and Poland considering a nuclear deterrent.

Later in the show, the Hamas terrorist group has reportedly proposed

a five to ten-year truce with Israel to end the war in Gaza, following direct talks with the Trump

administration's hostage affairs envoy. But first, today's afternoon spotlight. As European

nations begin to question whether they can rely on the U.S. for military protection

from Russia, leaders in Germany and Poland are now looking to arm themselves with nuclear

weapons.

I don't see how this could go wrong.

German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Mertz said Sunday that he would like to see his country

engage in talks with France and Britain, the only European nations, of course, with nuclear weapons

about sharing their stockpile, though he stressed that they were not a substitute for U.S.

nuclear protection on the continent, and that's according to a report from Reuters.

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