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PREVIEW: UKRAINE: RUSSIA: ELECTION: Conversation with colleague Katrina vanden Heuvel re: the strong possibility of negotiations after the election in order to close out the Ukraine tragedy and turn to China. More later.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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🗓️ 29 July 2024

⏱️ 2 minutes

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PREVIEW: UKRAINE: RUSSIA: ELECTION: Conversation with colleague Katrina vanden Heuvel re: the strong possibility of negotiations after the election in order to close out the Ukraine tragedy and turn to China. More later.

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0:00.0

This is John Bachelor speaking with colleague Katrina Venenhove, the editorial director and publisher of the nation magazine about Ukraine.

0:10.0

Katrina observes that both parties in this election are accepting the fact that Ukraine war cannot continue.

0:18.0

Negotiation, settlement, ceasefire, both parties.

0:24.4

We want one more than the other day to day,

0:26.4

but there's new information all the time.

0:29.5

And Katrina introduces us to why close out Ukraine why suddenly this is Katrina Vanenhoel

0:37.0

nation magazine commenting on what she understands is talk of negotiation everywhere.

0:44.0

More of this later tonight.

0:46.0

But John, the problems, I go back to Donald Rumsfeld, something I don't usually do,

0:52.0

as one was in the Iraq war there was the

0:55.7

discussion of old Europe and New Europe. New Europe has its need. Some of it is

1:00.5

revanchism and vengeance in the Baltics.

1:03.2

It is the case that the Prime Minister of Estonia,

1:05.8

now the foreign minister of the EU,

1:08.0

is very hawkish.

1:11.0

Orban is a different cat. but I do think that there's less territory for

1:18.0

on keeping going the war. Even Zelensky in an interview with Truding Rubin of the

1:22.3

Philadelphia Inquirer about a month ago

1:24.9

admitted the war can't go on forever I think there's more of a sense now that you want Ukraine and quote the strongest possible position for the inevitable

1:33.1

negotiations and there has certainly been a flurry whether it's Geneva

1:37.4

where Russia wasn't present or Istanbul playing a role or China every other week there seems to be some kind of new peace agreement.

1:46.0

I do think after this election that will be focused on that because I don't usually by Newsweek, I in an airport but they had an interesting story about

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