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This is the Friends Vistory Debating Society.

I'm John Batcha with the generous H.J. McInder, six capital six points of view.

We reach Washington, which is much involved in parochial concerns.

The debt limit, negotiations, campaigning for 24 already.

Kevin McCarthy, the speaker of the House, showing up at the White House routinely.

However, at the same time, there was a virtual meeting during the week with the Defence Department, Mr. Austin, Secretary of Defence, and General Mealy.

With 50 nations, virtual meeting, 50 nations who have contributed to the Defence of Ukraine.

It's a kind of meeting that you would check the box off before a major offensive.

This is a sort of thing that happened before the second front in Europe.

You make sure everybody is agreed that this is where we're going and they show up and they understand the gravity of it and then the go signal.

Professor, DC, it's parochial, it campaigns, pocketbook issues, it's worried about 2024.

It's point of view now about Ukraine's counteroffensive. Thank you.

Well, I, even though I'm physically co-located here, I'm not sure that we have a policy that includes the critical element that you've been talking about.

Today, namely, how does the war end, how is the peace created?

But we do have a really inemovable pledge, as far as I can see, that the Russians are not going to prevail.

Ukraine is going to win and that we will support them.

The odd thing is that although this sort of a commitment raises all sorts of other political issues, the administration is behaving as if it didn't and that this was a war or this was a great foreign policy contest that they could just keep in their best pocket.

I can't do that. This is the biggest war since World War II and it's going to determine its shadow is going to fall over most of the rest of the century.

So I would like to see Washington doing more thinking, given who we have in the State Department and so forth.

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