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It's Friday, the 21st of November.

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, Washington's

pressure campaign on Venezuela comes with a previous warning label. A New York Times report

reveals that U.S. officials once ran a secret

war game on what would happen if Nicholas Maduro fell, and the outcome wasn't pretty. To be fair,

regime change is almost never pretty. Let's see, there's Libya, Iraq, Chile, Nicaragua,

South Vietnam, definitely South Vietnam, Iran, Guatemala.

Yeah, we've got some practical case studies that we could learn from.

Now, it's not always apples to apples, to be fair, but, well, there are lessons to be had.

Later in the show, President Trump is ratcheting up the pressure on Ukraine to accept his

new 28-point peace plan for ending the war, giving Keev until Thanksgiving to agree. We'll break

down the framework, Europe's reaction, and the impossible decision that Zelensky now faces.

The White House is, to put it simply, suggesting that Ukraine

make all the concessions and essentially capitulate to Putin, just so we can say we've got a peace

deal? Hmm. Everybody, well, except for Putin. Everybody wants peace and stability, of course,

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