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Global Hotspots: Ukraine Goes on the Offensive

Eugene Chausovsky and Milos Maggiore discuss the events covered in Aug. 9 edition of the Weekly Forecast Monitor. This week, Iran said it would retaliate after Israel killed Hamas and Hezbollah leaders. Ukraine launched a major incursion into a Russian border region, while Moscow warned of a new front of the war in Africa. China and the U.S. and its allies held competing drills in the South China Sea.

For more, read the Weekly Forecast Monitor here.

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