This is the Friends Vista Debating Society.

I'm John Batchewith, Professor H.J. Mackinder,

International Relations, six capital, six points of view.

Keith, the news of the week, other than the war fighting and

back mode grinds on, a stalemate, apparently,

although we don't get good reporting from either side about casualties and

plans, the talk of the counteroffensive remains unclear.

However, there was a significant diplomatic development,

a phone call between President General Secretary Xi Jinping in Beijing,

and President Zelensky and Keith, in which there was exchange of ideas,

including a possible diplomatic relations.

And I believe this was a call that was expected for some days about peace.

But I mentioned, Professor, that since that call, there have been articles

in one particular in the National View Online, underlying that it is not,

it is not looked with favor that Zelensky is speaking openly of support or

working relations or diplomatic niceties with Xi Jinping.

Who in the Republican Party, and I believe it's true in the Democratic Party,

is regarded as a predator and the supervisor of a state that practices sadism.

So I mentioned that because we're in an election cycle, and the Republican

Party will look for advantage.

Well, I agree with you in what you say about the United States.

I think that it's essential that all people who were students of this war in

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