Welcome to Beg to Beg to Differ, The Bullworks Weekly Roundtable

discussion featuring civil conversation across the political spectrum.

We range from center left to center right.

I'm Mona Charrens, indicated columnist and policy editor of the Bullwork, and I'm joined

by our regulars Bill Galston of the Brookings Institution and the Wall Street Journal,

Damon Linker of the Week, and Linda Chavez of the Niskanin Center.

We do not have a guess this week due to a little snafu in scheduling, but we all have a great deal to say.

And so let us jump right in with the first topic, is of course Ukraine and how it is changing our politics if at all. Let's hear first the ending of the incredibly emotional speech by Valodemir Zelensky to the US Congress a couple

days ago.

Strong doesn't mean big.

Strong is brave and ready to fight for the life of his citizens and citizens of the world.

For human rights for freedom, for the right to live

distantly and to die when your time comes and not when it's wanted by someone else by your neighbor.

Today the Ukrainian people are defending not only Ukraine.

We are fighting for the values of Europe and the world, sacrificing

our lives in the name of the future.

Linda, before the war began, somebody published a piece in the New York Times saying

this Vladimir Zolensky is really in over his head, probably one of the worst timed opeds in history. It wasn't a crazy thing to think because he had made mistakes and so forth, but he has proved himself to be a remarkable wartime leader.

People are comparing him to Churchill and by the way as you and I both know from having worked for him.

Ronald Reagan, who had been an actor,

openly wondered how anybody who had not been an actor

could do the job.

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