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I'm John Batchel.

I welcome my colleague of longstanding,

Mary Kissel, the executive vice president,

Stevens Incorporated,

former senior advisor to the Secretary of State,

many years with the Walsley Journal editorial page in Asia. And now we turn to the global story of the wars, Bloomberg in these last

hours. Italy denies U.S. access to base. This is an aircraft heading into the war zone, and

Italy is turning it back from its plan to land in Sicily.

This combined with what has been established, the leadership in Spain saying we're not going to participate in any fashion with the U.S. in the war in Iran.

We also have news from Germany that the rising populist party that's been identified with Mr. Vance and

Mr. Musk called AFD, alternative for Deutschland, has made it very clear that when elected, when

dominant in the Bundestag, certainly when doing very well in the state elections that are coming up in East Germany.

We want Americans out.

They're very clear.

Ramstein, out.

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