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Well, for those of you who follow Adam Zivo in the National Post, he has been a clear voice and a steady hand, leading readers through some pretty complex issues, especially as they relate to the war in Ukraine.

Canada's drug policy, occasionally the topic of transgenderism.

And and so when he when he writes about himself, it's it's a little jarring.

didn't know until i found out about the second bout

um yeah so i thought of it as like a it's like a not a real cancer from my perspective and i didn't want to think about it and so then i was i i was uh monitored by prince margaret hospital for about five years afterwards uh and then beyond the five-year point i the chance of recurrence is less than 1%.

And I was supposed to get my seven-year and nine-year checkup, but I ended up missing them because of COVID, because I was traveling for the war, like I was traveling to cover the war in Ukraine.

And because mentally I'd always thought of it as not being a real cancer and had always wanted it to just sort of be over and done with, it didn't concern me so much.

Six have been released on bail.

Both Russia and Ukraine appear to be observing a localized ceasefire, which the White House claims was brokered by the U.S. First Lady, Melania Trump.

It was quiet in Kherson today as a ceasefire across the Dnipro River around the Russian-held city of Oleshky came into effect.

There are serious food shortages and medicine shortages.

The city is trapped on one side by the Dnipro River and on the other... by Russian forces.

The leaders of Finland and Norway called the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, today and say the conversation was frank and substantive.

Finland's president says his neighbors to Russia the outcome of Russia's war on Ukraine will have a direct impact on his country and on Europe.

The two Nordic leaders urged Putin to end the war but said no progress was made and the Kremlin later played down the call.

It's an open question of whether or not the Chinese could pull it off.

And with the Ukraine war, we finally got some good signposts of what it might look like.

The Chinese have always assumed that the war would be a walkover, that no one else will get involved, and that China is such a big place that everyone will just suck it up and move on.

Well, that clearly hasn't happened with Ukraine.

And the United States and the West have a much tighter relationship with Taiwan than they do with Ukraine.

Ukraine was only preparing for this war for eight years.

Taiwan has been preparing for 60.

You can walk to Ukraine from Russia.

And this time I grew to become the manager for apps team group.

And you may know we have a big office in Ukraine.

That's where I'm originally from.

So, and right before COVID, I was relocated to the US to join the marketing team.

And we also have to see how America deals with India's adversaries and competitors like China and Pakistan.

And so if on the first point, if there is going to be, let's say, the withdrawal from Afghanistan kind of syndrome or putting an end to the Ukraine war kind of an approach, then we have to make sure, then we cannot really assume that a friendship with America is going to, let's say, We have to ask ourselves how much the America relationship will contribute to India's national security.

I mean, so if we have to do more on our own and rely less on America, then that's one takeaway for us.

Second takeaway is that if the American administration is going to be driven more by transactionalism, then...

Welcome back to Silicon Bites.

Why can't good news be unambiguously good? And why does it feel like we are taking three steps forward and two steps back? Always, every year of this full-scale war, Ukraine is moving towards victory and the world is trying to pull it back like a dragging anchor on the sea floor.

Give Russia chances over and over again to recover and keep fighting.

Prevent it from collapsing.

Serbia's students toppled Putin's man in Belgrade.

Then amid the euphoria, it emerged that they may want to keep his Russia policy.

In fact, make it worse by banning the exports of weapons, munitions that the previous regime seemed happy to sell to Ukraine.

Meanwhile Washington tries to hand the UN to Viktor Orban.

And, you know, you can hardly blame him for being a traitor to the United States for trying to ease fuel supply and fuel prices.

What's treasonous about that? You could argue that it implicitly helped Russia regain some economic advantages during its war with Ukraine.

But why has the United States an obligation to pay vast amounts of its treasure to enable Ukraine to defeat the Russian government? You could argue also that the questions of Russia and Ukraine are outside of US security interests at this stage, largely because if the US had not interfered, and had not considered expanding NATO eastward into Ukraine, then this war would not have occurred.

And there's very good reason to believe that the Biden administration before President Trump deliberately said that it would bring Ukraine into NATO, contrary to the promises of President Reagan and Prime Minister Thatcher of the United Kingdom, that then this war would never have happened.

So now... we're seeing that Ukraine is holding the West up to ransom to say that you owe it to us to defeat Russia.

Well, nothing of the kind.

In fact, this paranoia and blaming of the West for the defeat of Ukraine could well have been avoided and can still be avoided by President Zelensky if he would enter serious negotiations to end the war.

And you can say the same about Russia, but Russia's ready to do that.

I'm going to talk to Michael tomorrow.

I'm also going to talk to Jeff McCausland about the battlefronts, Yemen, Iran, Ukraine.

and NATO.

Talk to Peter Hussey about the nuclear weapons arsenal and a new theme in Washington, abolitionism.