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While that’s a serious chunk of change, analysts in the field suggest that the cost is likely to be astronomically higher and that the president’s proposed timeline is, politely put, wildly optimistic.

Kyiv politely but firmly pushed back and over several weeks negotiated more equitable terms.

Nile wonders whether the delay has something to do with her young son’s death four years ago, and not politely.

“I’m not really good at talking about family stuff,” she says politely but firmly.

The children politely explained that they had slept perfectly well, but that their species was in the midst of going extinct and would soon be no more.