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Ryan Bridge: Diplomacy’s gone to the dogs · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Diplomacy's gone to the dogs. Remember it was only a
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  Speaker 1: month ago Trump was parading around in Alaskan Air Force
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  Speaker 1: base talking up peace for Ukraine, and then within weeks
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  Speaker 1: Putin sends eight hundred drones in a single night across
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  Speaker 1: the boarder, biggest attack of the war so far. And
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  Speaker 1: he's now entered NATO airspace. The fighter jets are scrambled,
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  Speaker 1: the alarm bells ringing in Brussels. Does any of this
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  Speaker 1: sound like progress to you? Does any of this sound
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  Speaker 1: like diplomacy is doing a damned thing to stop regular
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  Speaker 1: folk being slaughtered in the crossfire? No, of course not. Meanwhile, Netanya,
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  Speaker 1: who's firing missiles into Doha again? And who is he
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  Speaker 1: aiming for? The Hummas lead negotiator, the same guy who
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  Speaker 1: as recently his last week was being given ceasefire details
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  Speaker 1: from the Americans via the Egyptians and the Qataris if
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  Speaker 1: you really want peace, you don't fire missiles at the
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  Speaker 1: guy you're negotiating with. Now, if you're Hamas, what are
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  Speaker 1: you going to do now that the place you thought
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  Speaker 1: was safe to have talks no longer feel so safe.
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  Speaker 1: Some in believe the whole thing was a setup. According
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  Speaker 1: to the BBC, the American ceasefire proposal was all a
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  Speaker 1: trick to get them in one place at one time
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  Speaker 1: and then bang bomb them, blow them up. And you
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  Speaker 1: can't blame them for thinking that, can you. It doesn't
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  Speaker 1: matter where you look, which continent, which war, diplomacy doesn't
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  Speaker 1: seem to be working. The Americans look weak, Trump looks weak.
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  Speaker 1: Net Yahoo's taking him for a ride and putin while
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  Speaker 1: he couldn't care less. And the one guy in the
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  Speaker 1: world sitting back, watching, smiling, biding his time and growing
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  Speaker 1: a military empire is one shi Jingping of China. For
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