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I'm John Bachelor with my colleague Mary Kistel, Executive Vice President

Stephen's Incorporated. She's traveling. She's in the nation's capital, which is

good because there might actually be something about Ukraine diplomacy happening in the nation's capital.

Although the sense that I get married is that in Europe there was one great big sigh

when the 61 billion dollar package was announced from Congress some days ago and

Europe went back to worrying about making money.

Ukraine diplomacy.

I read nothing, I see nothing. Do you marry? Is there diplomacy in

any back channel, rear window, sending carrier pigeons, any exchange whatsoever between NATO and Moscow

between Ukraine and Moscow anything? No and I don't think there will be

particularly in the US election year I think there is a drifting US foreign policy that drip feeds weaponry into

Ukraine and hopes and praise that Putin doesn't escalate the conflict and that there isn't

some sort of awful nuclear accident or a killing of NATO troops or a missile that goes awry and

lands in Poland and kills a bunch of people. So it's again, it's a bit like our support for Israel and its fight

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