What's a Good Policy?

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We can't disentangle am the pandemic and now the conflict in ewcrane. But i think we do know that there has been some damage done from brexford. And then it would be a question of to come back to our earlier question. What's a good policy? Ah, that doesn't mean because it was a mistake, obvious.

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