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Our correspondent examines why we continue to seek refuge in the decorations of the Gilded Age.
But first...
In February,
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky went to the White House to sign a deal on extracting minerals.
People are dying.
You're running low on soldiers.
Listen.
You're running low on soldiers.
It would be a damn good thing.
Instead, the meeting ended up in a bust-up between Zelensky, Donald Trump and Vice President J.D.
Vance.