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Well.
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Good evening.
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I'm alan jackson, and welcome to nashville.
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The war in ukraine is still being fought
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More than three years after the russian invasion.
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Much of the world condemned the invasion,
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And some countries put sanctions on russia.
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But the fighting continues.
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President trump has tried to bring peace.
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Working with the leaders of both countries.
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But despite the huge death toll and massive spending,
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Vladimir putin and president zelensky are still dug in.
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Trust is missing.
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Families have lost sons and fathers.
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The destruction is widespread.
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Russia is getting help from enemies of the u.s.
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And the u.s., and some european countries are helping ukraine.
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But in the end, russia
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Has a much larger population to draw on.
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144 million russians and fewer than 39 million in ukraine.
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But even with all the attention
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To the war, most of us still don't know much about ukraine.
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So tonight, we're going to hear from the
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Honorable gregory slayton, the former u.s.
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Diplomat and recipient of the congressional
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Distinguished foreign service award.
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He spent the last several years putting together
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A fascinating book called portraits of ukraine.
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Ambassador slayton, welcome to our show.
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Thank you.
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Alan, it's a real pleasure to be here with you.
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Well, it's a fascinating book.
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You've pointed out that all the profits from
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The book are going to charities in ukraine.
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So maybe we begin by telling us
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Why you chose to take on this effort.
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Well, thank you very much, alan.
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You know, we feel very strongly about freedom, democracy
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And the rule of law.
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Now, every country has problems.
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Our country has problems.
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Ukraine has problems, for sure.
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But at least it's a country that,
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Since it became independent from the soviet union
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Back over 30 years
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Ago, has really been moving more and more closely
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To the aid, freedom, democracy and the rule of law.
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Let's make no bones about it.
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It was attacked.
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It wasn't.
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This wasn't a nato attack on russia.
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This wasn't a ukrainian attack.
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And i speak from someone who's been in ukraine
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Probably 30 times in the last few years.
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This was a russian attack because vladimir putin,
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As he said many
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Times, wants to reestablish what was effectively
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The territory of the soviet union.
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We didn't feel good about that.
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I know many americans share that feeling.
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And so we
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Saw an opportunity both to help and we,
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In conjunction with a number of other really good,
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Christian charities, have helped deliver over 16 million
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Pounds of relief supplies to the war zones
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Of southern and, eastern ukraine.
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And then we saw an opportunity to write this book,
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Both to help our fellow
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Americans understand the situation, the history,
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The culture, the language, the war itself better.
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And to benefit ukrainian charities.
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And that's what we've done.
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Well, getting a peace deal is clearly a lot more difficult
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To get signed than anyone thought it would be.
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Ukraine's ambassador to the united states
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That his country will not be reabsorbed
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Into a resurrected russian empire under putin.
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What is it that putin's looking for?
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And maybe zelensky as well?
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Well, i think putin is looking for
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A resurrected russian empire and, you know, don't trust me.
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Just look at what he's continued to say many, many times
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Since he became dictator over 25 years ago.
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He said the the greatest
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Disaster of the 20th century was the dissolution
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Of the soviet empire.
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He sees himself and he said this.
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He sees himself as peter the great.
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And, and,
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You know, he's
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Trying to resurrect what was the great russian empire.
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And it's not just people
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Sometimes think, oh, just ukraine.
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No, no, no, not at all.
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He's been undermining,
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Undermining the government of georgia.
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He's been in undermining the government of moldova.
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He's basically taken over belarus when the belarus
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President lost a free and fair election a few years ago.
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Putin sent troops in, and, many were killed.
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And and and that president, that dictator is still there,
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But he's basically putin's lapdog.
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That's what they were hoping to do in ukraine.
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It hasn't worked.
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Well, give us a taste of the great natural resources
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That ukraine has
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And what products and countries they support throughout
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The world.
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Yes. well, first of all, as many of you as many folks
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Know, ukraine is one of the greatest,
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Grain producing nations in the world.
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It used to be called europe's breadbasket.
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And in many ways, it still is.
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But now, prior to the war, it really is africa's breadbasket.
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So a lot of our u.s.
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Government programs like world food program, yes, of course,
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We get it from american farmers.
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But sometimes when it's not available,
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That grain comes from ukraine.
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Not just grain, but metals and raw materials.
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Now, russia
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Also is a very rich nation, obviously, in many ways.
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And by the way, i want to say something good
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About the russian people.
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There are a lot of wonderful russian people.
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They have a dictator and is one of our founding fathers.
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Wisely said,
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Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Vladimir putin has been absolute dictator
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Of russia for over 25 years.
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Well, president trump is working on a deal
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Where the united states would collect
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Some of ukraine's mineral resources in exchange
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For keeping the peace on the ground.
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The u.s.
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May also agree
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To protect the nuclear plants for obvious reasons.
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But he's turning up the pressure
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After the first few attempts in an agreement failed.
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He also seems to be quite concerned
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About the number of people who have died there.
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Listen to how he put it.
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It is brutal.
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2500 young people a week, some of them not so young,
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Actually. they're getting older.
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They're getting older by the month, but,
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2500 a week and we're going to get it stopped, ideally.
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Now, if for some reason, one of the two parties makes it
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Very difficult.
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We're just going to say you're foolish, you're fools, you're
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Horrible people, and we're going to just take a pass.
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You know,
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Zelenskyy is now blaming putin for a 30 hour truce over easter.
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That didn't work.
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Both leaders appear pretty stubborn about getting a deal.
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What's it going to take to make something work
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When ukraine is so outnumbered?
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Well, ukraine's been outnumbered for over three years.
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Remember when russia attacked february 24th of 2022?
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Every single western intelligence service,
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Including ours, gave ukraine a week, two weeks max.
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Here we are, three years into the battle.
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And by the way, how many american servicemen have died?
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Zero.
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And the reason that's important to me
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Is that two of our four children are u.s.
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Army officers.
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Now, of course, they'll do their duty
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As our armed armed services always do.
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And they'll do it valiantly and well.
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But right now, i think ukraine is doing us a great favor
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Because russia, let's remember who backs iran,
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Who backs hezbollah, who backs the houthis.
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That's iran.
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And iran's number one benefactor by far, is russia.
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So let's be clear about this in terms of a cease fire.
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Cease fire is a great idea.
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We definitely should do that.
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But we can't have it be a cease fire like happened to nixon.
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Kissinger. back in vietnam.
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You'll remember that. they declared.
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You know, they declared peace.
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And six months later, the communist north vietnamese
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Imposed a communist hellhole on the south vietnamese.
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And 30 years of disaster.
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That's not what anybody wants, except maybe putin.
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And that's why, in my view.
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And i was just there a couple of months ago,
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Zelensky, i believe he does want a cease fire.
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Putin.
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He's not, he doesn't have to win an election.
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So he's i don't think he's as
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Concerned about the losses on the russian side.
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But let's hope and let's pray for peace.
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That's absolutely right.
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Well, ambassador slaten,
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Please stay with us for another segment.
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We'd like to discuss more of ukraine's history
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And the great number of christians there. yes.
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And then later, i'm going to offer a bit
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Of a biblical perspective on this long running war
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And the hope available to citizens in both countries.
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We'll be right back.
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We'll be right back.
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We're back now with ambassador gregory slayton,
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Who spent the last several years
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Putting together a rich history of ukraine, portraits
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Of ukraine.
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It's a beautiful book,
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And if you buy the book, every dollar
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You spend will go to the charity,
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To the charity organizations there in ukraine.
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He's also the chairman of slayton capital.
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Well, 85% of ukraine is christian.
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And there are also small groups of jews and muslims.
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In your book,
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You point out that russia has been charged
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With committing
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Thousands of gross violations of religious freedoms.
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Tell us what they're doing
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And how the people are dealing with it.
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Well, yes, unfortunately, that's absolutely right.
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In the occupied territories, there have been others over
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600 church, 600 churches in the occupied
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Ukrainian share territories that have been either closed,
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Destroyed or the pastor priest has been disappeared.
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It's it's a it's a very serious problem.
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We do talk about specifically in the book,
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And there's also a lot of good research teams out there
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That have done a lot of research.
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There's, in fact, a pamphlet i was just reading called faith
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Under siege.
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Great movie of that type of that title also.
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So it really is a problem.
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And christians here in the states
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Have to understand this bunk that we're hearing
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From some quarters about religious freedom.
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It's just not true. i mean, i've been there.
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I've seen the churches have been destroyed.
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Talk to,
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You know, parishioners
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Who were arrested, during a worship service.
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In fact, this great movie, faith
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Under siege, shows was a worship service.
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And the russian soldiers come in and arrest
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The pastor and priests and put people in
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And pastor and start taking people away.
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It's horrific.
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There is no, freedom of religion in russia.
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If you're russian orthodox, you're okay.
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That's, that's vladimir putin's religion.
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But if you're anything else, including any type of
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Protestant, evangelical, charismatic christianity.
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No, that is absolutely not.
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You are not protected anywhere in russia, including
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The territories of ukraine, that they now occupy by force.
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Well, i want to pick up just a little bit
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More of a humanitarian topic, perhaps.
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I know there's some remarkable athletes in ukraine,
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And their training has been completely disrupted by the war.
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You tell us that
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Those young athletes are still trying
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To stay in shape when things end, you know?
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Yeah. where do they practice?
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They don't have to worry about getting tangled up
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And all this craziness that the world's
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Brought to their doorsteps.
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Well, no.
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That's right.
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But to be honest, a number of those athletes
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Are now soldiers, and they are fighting for their freedom.
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Because that's the thing about ukraine.
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You know, this isn't a war that they started,
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But this is a war for their future,
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For their families and for their freedom.
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And they are united.
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I was just in kiev very recently.
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People are tired.
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Everybody's lost.
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Somebody an uncle, a father, a son.
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Yeah.
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Everybody's lost somebody.
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But nobody talks about surrendering.
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You think about it.
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Somebody attacks the united states.
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We're never going to surrender.
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No matter how bad things look.
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Somebody tries to take over our freedoms, our faith,
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Our values, what we stand for, what we believe in.
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We're not giving up.
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And that's just the situation in ukraine.
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The athletes, some of them have gone to other countries.
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Poland has been a wonderful place
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And received a lot of ukrainian refugees.
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Some have come here to the united states, other nations.
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But a large percentage of those athletes
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Actually joined the ukrainian armed forces and are fighting,
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For their freedom and their, their future.
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You have raised the possibility that if the world allows russia
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To take too much ukrainian territory,
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It might encourage china to take taiwan.
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Is that what you're hearing in the diplomatic community?
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Yes. most definitely.
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I spend a lot of time in asia.
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I'm in jakarta right now.
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Every east asian nation is worried about that
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Because china taking taiwan cuts off a huge shipping lane
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To thirds of the world's trade goes through, the east asian,
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Shipping lanes.
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And obviously taiwan is the leader in the semi
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Semiconductor manufacturing, world.
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And of course, it's been
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Wonderful to see the west generally united.
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I do hope the united states, you know, stay strong in this as
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I think we should. we're
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The leader of the democratic, freedom loving world.
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We need to stand for other democracies who love freedom
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And the rule of law.
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But there's no doubt that xi jinping.
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And again, he said it.
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So we'll just take his word for it.
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He said that china owns taiwan, needs to reabsorb taiwan.
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Taiwan cannot be an independent breakaway.
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That's the term. he is province.
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Well, the taiwanese beg to differ.
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They do not agree.
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The large majority of taiwanese and the fact that the west,
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Largely speaking, along with our asian allies
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Like japan and korea and australia and others,
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Have supported ukraine, has definitely given china pause.
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Before we go.
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Help our viewers understand some of the other rich gifts
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From ukraine
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The cuisine, the woodworking, the arts, the architectural
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Accomplishments.
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It's a stunning country with so much
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That visitors would love to see if they could go back safely.
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Eventually, i pray.
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Yes. amen.
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Well, tourism was either the number one
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Or number two export of ukraine prior to the russian invasion.
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Obviously nobody.
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I mean, i go, but i'm not going for tourism, that's for sure.
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But you're absolutely right.
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It's a rich and deep culture.
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Beautiful, beautiful, handiwork, beautiful
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Carving, a great dress, all kinds of stuff.
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Of course.
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Famous for the easter eggs and many, many other things.
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But also ukraine was one of the leaders in technology
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And still is today in many areas of technology.
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Ukraine leads, in fact, many.
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I'm a silicon valley venture capitalist,
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And that's what slayton capital does.
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And some of our companies
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Actually have employees in ukraine, coders and others
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Who are helping with tech companies.
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So it's a it's a rich company,
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The country, it's a great country.
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And all they want is peace.
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They just want to be left alone.
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And, yeah, i think we can all respect that.
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So let's really pray for peace in ukraine,
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For peace in russia, peace in belarus, for peace
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In that region to prevail because it's a rich,
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Wonderful region with a very long, deep christian history.
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Well, ambassador, thank you for joining us.
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I happen to know you're in jakarta,
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And it was quite an effort for you
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To make the program with us today.
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Thank you.
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And it's a great pleasure to be with you, alan.
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Thank you.
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Here's another look. it is an informative new book.
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It's portraits of ukraine, a nation at war,
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And we hope that the future editions
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Will come with no need to mention war on the cover.
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We will join you in praying for peace.
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And i just like to mention the nonprofit
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That is helping support the people there.
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It's family first global.org.
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There's a way we can make a difference.
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There is something we can do and we come back.
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Hope and truth. and what the bible says
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That points us in the right direction.
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Stay with us. i'll be right back.
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Stay with us. i'll be right back.
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And when the ukraine war first began, i was on zoom
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Calls on a regular basis with leaders
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In the christian communities of ukraine.
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It was tragic to hear the stories
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Of the civilian populations being targeted,
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The apartment buildings
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That were being decimated by rocket fire.
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We bought vans.
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We sent food and clothing.
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We were doing whatever we could to provide
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Support and resources
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For the people that were trapped in that horrible conflict.
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Unfortunately, it seems that the leadership
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Of russia and the leadership of ukraine
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Too frequently
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Aren't that willing and bringing a swift into a war
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That's cost more than a million lives.
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It's as if human life is expendable.
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Just a number.
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Well, sadly, that attitude was found in dc as well.
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During trump's recent address to congress.
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We witnessed elected officials stand and applaud
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In support of indefinitely extending the ukraine war.
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It's illogical.
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I'm thankful for the grown up voices that are saying
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We have to bring a resolution to that conflict.
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We've just published a new book called angels, demons, and you.
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So i guess my mind has been a bit on that topic.
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There's a verse in hebrews
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That even says, we should be aware
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That sometimes we've entertained angels.
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Well, i want to share something that happened to me recently.
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I have a habit at the end of every service
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To stand at the altar and pray for people.
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Well, recently i had an experience
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When a man came up to me, introduced himself.
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He just told me his first name. he said it was benjamin.
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He had a bit of an accent
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And he simply said, pastor,
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We need to pray that the war will end in ukraine.
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He said, i'm a pastor there. will you pray with me?
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So we stopped and prayed. that was all he said.
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Then he slipped away. the conversation was brief.
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He didn't hand me a business card that said i'm an angel.
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But there were enough unique characteristics around it
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That it got my attention.
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And i've been praying since then that the war in ukraine
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Will end.
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And i want to hand that assignment to you.
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So often we say there's nothing we can do.
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Well, i believe there is.
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I believe the prayers of god's
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People can change even the destiny of nations.
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When we return, i'm going to read
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And respond to some of your emails.
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And respond to some of your emails.
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Thank you for your emails.
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I always enjoy reading them.
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Nancy commented on a youtube episode with doctor george barna
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Allen,
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When you said that we are being shaken,
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I really didn't understand just how much shaking was going on.
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After doctor barna listed the many things
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That are changing in our nation and how fast it's all changing.
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It really opened my eyes.
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All of this just makes me so much happier.
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I have my faith in you to help lead the way to the answers,
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The bible, god, and prayers.
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Those are my answers.
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Yes, and we are shaking.
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But i know i'm also praying more every day.
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Well, nancy, i think the good news is that
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In the midst of all the shaking,
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It is revealing those things which cannot be shaken.
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And those are the principles of the kingdom of god.
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There's hope in the midst of all of this, i promise.
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Maria from new mexico wrote, i love your show.
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An entire lineup. i have the same concerns.
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I would like to see radical judges checked.
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We all see them overreaching their jurisdiction.
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At some point, it needs to stop.
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Consequences need to be implemented
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For deliberately putting americans at risk for chaos.
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Maria, i couldn't agree more.
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The lawfare has to be stopped
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If we're going to maintain our liberties
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And freedoms in the future.
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If only. joni mitchell i did it today.
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I finish reading matthew, mark, luke, and john.
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I really enjoyed walking with jesus.
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Joan. congratulations!
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That's a good habit for all of us to build.
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We're in the process of building a community,
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A community of trust that we would love
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To have as many people as possible involved.
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So please tell a friend to watch the show.
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It's live at 7 p.m.
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Eastern time, 6 p.m.
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Central or any time on youtube.
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You can go to aj now.com to watch the latest episode.
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You can share the comment
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Or even purchase my new book, angels demons in you.
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Thank you for helping to share the word with others.
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Truth matters and i hope it will spread.
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I'm alan jackson.
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You have a wonderful evening.
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Allen Jackson: April 24, 2025 | Allen Jackson Now

April 24, 2025 | S25:E424

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