Welcome to the Pied and Ears in the World Stage.

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

All right, let's get briefed.

First up, real movement on the Ukraine peace push,

at least reportedly. Washington's plan is now trimmed to 19 points, and that's, if I'm not mistaken,

nine points fewer than the original 28-point peace plan, and U.S. officials followed the Geneva talks

with rare shuttle diplomacy in Abu Dhabi.

Good friend of the show, Ryan Macbeth, joins us to break it all down.

Later in the show, President Trump prepares to label the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization.

Now, that's a move that could reshape U.S. policy across the Middle East.

Merriam Waba from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies

joins us to explain all of that. But first, today's situation report spotlight. Diplomatic efforts

to end a war in Ukraine accelerated on multiple fronts just this week. In Geneva, U.S., Ukrainian, and

European officials spent days refining Washington's

proposed peace framework, which started as a 28-point plan and then was narrowed to 19 core

provisions covering security guarantees, future force limits, and the steps needed to restore

Ukrainian sovereignty. But even after the Geneva talks

wrapped, U.S. officials kept moving. In a bit of shell diplomacy, senior American envoys

flew to Abu Dhabi for face-to-face discussions with Russian counterparts, testing whether Moscow

is willing to engage on any of those 19 points.

Here's my bet.

There not.

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