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Peaceful transition of power, then the idea of democracy would be an absurdity. what is democracy defined as? its when people can vote for their leaders. unless you can trust that vote is fairly counted and people accept a loss, this is what happened in the civil war. im not saying were there yet. the important thing to understand is the 1850s built up little by little by little to 1861, and were still in that state where we can write the next chapter of our story. so theres a dramatic moment th...

Warning. >> i think johnsons decision was one of the results of a new hampshire primary. >> lyndon johnson was not a quitter. i think he had counted his votes and he didnt see it as a winning proposition. >> a substantial amount of the support for the war in vietnam had diminished. >> there are many who saw lbjs opting not to run again as quitting on the war in vietnam. lbj believed that by making this tacit gesture, ho chi minh would agree to come to the peace table. >> he really thought that h...

To the peace table, and that is inevitable. the only question is how many more lives must be lost? how many more bombs must fall? how many mariupols must be destroyed? how many more ukrainians and russians will be killed before everyone realises that this war has no winners, only losers? how many more people left to die in ukraine? and how many people around the world will have to face hunger for this to stop? continuing the war in ukraine is morally unacceptable, politically indefensible and mi...

Later it will have to move from the battlefield to the peace table, and thatis battlefield to the peace table, and that is inevitable. the only question is how many more lives must be lysed? how many more bombs must fall? how many mariupol�*s must be destroyed? how many more ukrainians and russians will be killed before everyone realises that this war has no winners, on the losers. the people left to die in ukraine and the many people around the world who will have to face hunger for this to s...

Cut ukraine off the scene. they could try to consolidate their control of a very significant chunk of ukrainian territory to be the basis of the negotiated settlement that putin wants, which is essentially a de facto partition where russia consumes a big chunk of the eastern part of ukraine and cuts them off from the sea. that is something the ukrainians will never accept at the peace table. never. so we still have a long way to go here before there is a possible outcome here that can be agreed ...

Over the next 15 years, but russia has terrorized the city of mariupol, and connected as you are showing on your map right now, that donbas region down through mariupol, down through crimea, they could regroup, they could push in utah, they could try to cut ukraine off the scene. they could try to consolidate their control of a very significant chunk of ukrainian territory to be the basis of the negotiated settlement that putin wants, which is essentially a de facto partition where russia consum...

Efforts at the peace table. >> you said youre under no illusion that russia will adjust its target. what function will an additional sanctions package have when you announce it? >> i would say two things about the sanctions. one is that sanctions are intended to impose cost so russia cannot carry on these grotesque acts without paying a severe price for it. the other is to have an basic on russias behavior over time. it will take time to grinds gown the elements of russian power and hit the indu...

"face the nation" that with regard to any potential peace agreement, the important thing in this agreement are security guarantees, but he also said the u.s. has not provided any yet. is the u.s. considering that? and what would that look like? >> so we are in regular contact, and by regular i mean near daily contact. i personally am in near daily contact with my counterpart in the ukrainian government and we are talking constantly about how we can support a negotiated solution that defends ukra...

International Women's Day didn't just come out of thin air -- it took a long list of women to get this holiday started and to continue the celebration year after year. Here's a timeline of how we got here.

For more than 100 years, March 8th has marked what has come to be known as International Women's Day in countries around the world.