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Ryan Bridge: Putin and Trump decide their fate · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: If you've got a feel for Vodimir Zelenski. On weeks
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  Speaker 1: like this, Saturday is the big day Friday their times,
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  Speaker 1: Saturday hours, Putin will fly to Alaska and meet with
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  Speaker 1: Trump for a cup of tea in a biscuit. Lovely,
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  Speaker 1: they will hash out the terms of a ceasefire for
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  Speaker 1: what the Russians are calling the Ukraine crisis, rather than
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  Speaker 1: a bloody war that they started. The body count is astonishing.
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  Speaker 1: It's as astonishing as the fact that there is a
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  Speaker 1: war raging in Europe. In twenty twenty five, one million
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  Speaker 1: Russian soldiers have been killed or injured, four hundred thousand
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  Speaker 1: for the Ukrainian side, including sixty to one hundred thousand dead.
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  Speaker 1: The Russians now occupy about twenty percent of Ukraine. And
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  Speaker 1: the guy responsible for this hell fire is not being
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  Speaker 1: dragged by some soldiers into an international criminal court to
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  Speaker 1: face charges. No, he's about to be welcomed, wined and
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  Speaker 1: dined by the most powerful man in the world to
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  Speaker 1: discuss the terms for as Sea, which includes keeping land
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  Speaker 1: that is not entitle to If we put ourselves in
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  Speaker 1: Ukrainian shoes for just a second, if war was to
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  Speaker 1: return to the Pacific theater. It would be like Washington
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  Speaker 1: and Beijing meeting to decide that China can keep and
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  Speaker 1: occupy all of the land north of Auckland simply because
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  Speaker 1: they took it, and you meant to sit back and
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  Speaker 1: be grateful that at least the fighting will stop. Ukrainians
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  Speaker 1: certainly aren't ready to roll over on territory. The Europeans
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  Speaker 1: are huddling around Zelenski now to give them some moral support,
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  Speaker 1: but they need more than cuddles and handshakes to bandage
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  Speaker 1: over what must feel like an insult to their country
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  Speaker 1: and to their sovereignty. Two global superpowers meeting far far
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  Speaker 1: away in Alaska and deciding the fate of their nation.
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