This is the Friends Vistory Debating Society.

I'm John Datshe with Professor H.J. Mackender, International Relations.

Return from a long exercise and now ready to go back into the conflict zone, but we have

two conflict zones.

We have the Middle East and we have Europe.

We're going to attend to Europe on the basis of the capital's points of view, something

that is familiar to the professor.

To begin in Moscow, Moscow, since we last spoke, has gone through a bad patch of losing

the private army, the Wagner group, and the head of the private army, Pregotian, and

questions were raised a whole time about whether this was the end of the Russian conflict,

the special operation in Ukraine.

It is not.

The Russians have reinforced, at the same time, the spring offensive, launched by Kiev,

has not been successful to read the reports.

This is fog of war.

And Moscow's point of view is we're about to enter the third winter of the war.

The prices for energy in Europe are higher than is comfortable for the manufacturers, especially

Germany.

At the same time, Russia is looking to continue its strong trading relationship with China,

with India, for its energy products.

Mr. Putin is said to be about to travel to Beijing for a sit-down with Xi Jinping.

So Moscow's point of view, professor.

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