Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island?

Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the

tropics.

But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets.

I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise,

the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder.

Wish you were here.

Follow the price of Paradise Now, wherever you listen to podcasts. I'm John Bachelor with Ennshaw Leaven of the Quincy Institute for Responsible

State Craft writing in foreign policy about the U.S. lessons learned and not learned since the Second War about

small wars. Ukraine is a small war. The resupply of weaponry may sustain it through

another year may not.

There's a dire shortage of manpower

at the front line for Ukraine.

There's talk of returning draft age men from Poland forcibly.

Ireland is talking about cutting off what we call transfer statement

payments in the US that is welfare to Ukrainian refugees.

Canada may do the same.

There are lots of refugees around the world who are draft age and not returning to

Ukraine.

Therefore, is this a good time to talk one more time about making an accommodation?

Apeasement is not supposed to please anybody.

And at all, what does Cyprus teach us?

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