for more information on our work, we encourage you to visit our website, just ftd dot org, ftd dot org. you can follow us on twitter at ftd. so thank you again for joining us for this important and timely conversation. brad, i'm pleased to turn this over to you and thank you so much, cliff, and thanks to everyone for joining us here in the room, which is exciting. haven't seen this in a while and thanks for everyone tuning in online. and i also want to congratulate you, michael, on your extraordinary book. and i'm really looking forward to this conference session. and secretary flournoy and joe mcfarlane, what a distinguished panel. and i'm so glad you could join us today. so thank you. my general plan for the next hour or so is for us to have a conversation for about 40 minutes or so. and i'm sincerely to get two questions from the audience, because we have essentially the same audience with this day. so that's the plan. so with that, let's jump right in the book is here. you see it displayed in front of us. so let me start, michael, if i may, with the most obvious question. this is y

for more information on our work, we encourage you to visit our website, just ftd dot org, ftd dot org. you can follow us on twitter at ftd. so thank you again for joining us for this important and timely conversation. brad, i'm pleased to turn this over to you and thank you so much, cliff, and thanks to everyone for joining us here in the room, which is exciting. haven't seen this in a while and thanks for everyone tuning in online. and i also want to congratulate you, michael, on your extraordinary book. and i'm really looking forward to this conference session. and secretary flournoy and joe mcfarlane, what a distinguished panel. and i'm so glad you could join us today. so thank you. my general plan for the next hour or so is for us to have a conversation for about 40 minutes or so. and i'm sincerely to get two questions from the audience, because we have essentially the same audience with this day. so that's the plan. so with that, let's jump right in the book is here. you see it displayed in front of us. so let me start, michael, if i may, with the most obvious question. this is y

saying if the russians were stopped, were to stop fighting right now, this war would come to an end but ftd ukrainians stopped fighting, ukraine would come to an end. he said democracy is the only way forward. but no diplomacy that would go against the u.n. charter or reward russia for the veinics. >> kylie atwood, thank you. >>> one of the strongest rebukes of putin came from the french president emmanuel macron who told the u.n. that the war paves the way for other annexation of others and beyond. jake tapper sat down with the president for a exclusive interview. >> joining me now is the president of france, emmanuel macron in an exclusive. thank you for being here. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> we're happy to have you here. you gave a very forceful speech at the united nations. you said that vladimir putin is making a new mistake following his announcement that he's going to mobilize hundreds of thousands of russian troops. had you said he has made russia more and more isolated because of a war you said was illegal and illegitimate. you are perhaps the western leader who has had more t