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What the hell is going on?

What's really going on?

We said, what the hell happened?

You don't have to know what the hell is on it.

They see what's going on.

I don't know what's going on.

What is going on?

We must find out what's going on. What is going on? We must find out what is going on.

Hi, I'm Danielle Pletka.

I'm Mark Tiesin.

Welcome to our podcast.

What the hell is going on?

Mark, what the hell is going on this week? what the hell is going on this week?

What the hell is going on is it appears the worm is turning in Ukraine. A lot has happened in the last week or so. First of all, Putin has basically told Trump no when it comes to peace that he plans to achieve his objectives in Ukraine and he's not going to stop fighting.

Trump said at a cabinet meeting that Putin's been bullshitting him and he doesn't want peace.

And so Trump spent the first six months of his presidency trying to convince and conjole Vladimir Putin to come to the peace table to negotiate an end of the war.

And it seems like we've reached the end of the road there.

Then at the same time,

while this was all happening, Trump was coming to these conclusions with Putin, the Pentagon paused weapons to Ukraine, and Trump turned them back on. And we've now started delivering

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