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This is the Friends Vistory Debating Society.

I'm John Bachelorette, Professor H. J. McInder,

and international relations returned from his Alpine adventures,

thrown into a two-front war.

And the story in Moscow is this.

Moscow is committed to recovering Ukraine from its point of view.

Ukraine is part of Mother Russia.

That commitment has led to catastrophe on the battlefield.

Yet, midweek these last days,

the news was that President Putin of Russia and Federation

and President Erdogan of the very powerful and critically placed Turkey

or on the phone, talking about a solution for the Middle East

for the Palestinians, including the 1967 borders,

something we've heard about for 50 years.

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