War in Iran has put a chokehold on oil from the Middle East, but Russia has oil and selling it to hungry markets across the globe would help fund its war in Ukraine.

The Ukrainians aren't just going to sit back and let that happen. I'm Carolyn Beeler. And I'm Marco Wurman. Today, Ukraine

confronts new realities on the world stage. Also demand for renewable energy as countries looking

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things like EVs, solar panels, batteries, wind turbines.

How that's working in China's favor.

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All that and more today, here on the world.

This is the world. I'm Marco Wurman. And I'm Carolyn Beeler. Thank you for coming along this Wednesday.

Ukraine is on the verge of getting an infusion of aid from the European Union to the tune of $106 billion. The Ukrainian president,

Vladimir Zelensky, says it's crucial. It's really the question of our life, of the surviving,

of defending, so we need this money very much. The holdout on European aid for Ukraine had been Hungary under the leadership of Victor Orban,

but he was recently voted out of office.

This is just one piece of the geopolitical puzzle right now for Ukraine.

We begin today with Phillips Pason O'Brien, a professor of strategic studies at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.

He is also the author of a recent

article in the Atlantic titled Ukraine has finally given up on Trump. It's absolutely vital for the

Ukrainian economy to keep the war going that the United States has dropped off the map.

The United States doesn't help Ukraine in any way in terms of aid now. It sells a very small number of weapons via European

countries, but we don't even know if that's going to continue because the U.S. is running

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