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🗓️ 12 March 2025
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0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, March 12, 2025. |
0:07.8 | I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
0:14.0 | Big news coming out of Jetta, Saudi Arabia, where American diplomats announced that a ceasefire agreement had been agreed to, and that includes |
0:23.2 | officials of the United States and Ukraine. Ukraine, according to the senior U.S. diplomats, |
0:29.4 | including the U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the National Security Advisor Mike Walts, |
0:34.5 | given talks that took place there in Jeddah with the hospitality of the Saudi |
0:39.3 | Arabian crown prince. They had led to the fact that the United States and Ukraine, we are told, |
0:44.2 | are now on the same page when it comes to calling for an immediate ceasefire. It would be a 30-day |
0:50.1 | ceasefire, and the ball is now effectively headed to the Russians. We'll see how serious the Russians |
0:56.0 | are about ending this war or even getting to a ceasefire in order to have a reset. Now, there is |
1:03.0 | ample reason to believe that both sides might want a ceasefire. When it comes to Ukraine, |
1:09.2 | the fact is that they are being worn down by Russian advances, but frankly, both sides have been worn down. |
1:14.9 | The Ukrainians have shown remarkable strength. |
1:17.6 | And just about the time, every time we are told that Russia is making significant short-term advantages. |
1:23.5 | It turns out that the short-term turns into something far longer. |
1:27.7 | Russian forces have definitely found that it is far more difficult to invade Ukraine than they had planned. |
1:33.9 | And Ukrainians have fought nobly at the same time. |
1:37.3 | It is really clear that this cannot go on indefinitely. |
1:40.8 | That is one of the points made by U.S. President Donald Trump. |
1:43.5 | He hasn't always made those points with subtlety of the points made by U.S. President Donald Trump. He hasn't always made |
1:44.6 | those points with subtlety. He has made those points sometimes rather boistercy. And at this point, |
1:51.0 | nonetheless, I have to say, I think it's absolutely right that this cannot go on as it is. Ukraine cannot |
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