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Mary Kessel, Executive Vice President Stevenson, Incorporated, former senior advisor to the Secretary

of State about the fragile governments across Europe, across Asia, across all of Eurasia.

The dictatorships, yes, Beijing, Moscow, Tehran, Pyongyang, but the democracies.

The German government has fallen. There'll be a new election in February.

The French government is at sea because the premier has been fired and there's no new premier right now.

Mr. Macron is vowing he won't resign before his five-year term is up.

And then Britain under threat of the farmers to come again in London with their beautiful tractors

and say raising our inheritance taxes is outrageous. What are you doing?

You're making a sell land in order to pay our taxes to pass on our farm to the children or to our

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