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April 13, 2023

Brazil's Lula Will Ask China's Xi to Help Broker Peace in Ukraine; U.S. Sees No Peace Talks in 2023
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Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has arrived in China for a
state visit, where he's planning to ask President Xi Jinping to have
China join Brazil as mediators in peace talks between Russia and
Ukraine.

This comes after the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency said it expects
the war to continue into 2024 with neither side agreeing to peace talks.
The revelation came as part of highly sensitive U.S. government
materials leaked online and obtained by The Washington Post. The Post is
also reporting the man behind the leak is a young, racist gun enthusiast
who worked on a U.S. military base and was seeking to impress a small
group of people, mostly men and teenage boys, in an invitation-only
forum on Discord, an online platform popular with gamers.


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