This is the Friends of History Debating Society.

I am Gaius. I'm in Lundinium.

It's a fall evening by the Thames.

And we will speak of the swans tonight because there is fresh swan meat in the markets.

And the centurions retired were bragging about how only londinium

and all the empire has fresh swan meat it takes weeks for it to go the high road to rome where

the senators enjoy it we can enjoy it routinely because they're in the Thames

estuary. I personally don't recommend it if you're feeling delicate about the beauty of the swans,

but it's said to be, I have a recipe, in fact, that the centurions gave me, if I have a chance,

I'll give it out tonight

Germanicus is here we're going to turn to something that isn't elegant like swans

even dead swans we're going to turn to the story of political vengeance and how it's been

practiced for 2,000 years we Romans recognize recognize it. Apparently, it's worthwhile for

the American editorial pages to discover it fresh because of Emperor Trump. We begin tonight,

however, reviewing the week that was. Chiefly, it was dominated by talk of Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin, redoubling their efforts to win their battle in for Donbass.

And the disappointment of the Trump administration, we're told that they weren't ready to come to the table to negotiate.

We're told, and that the idea of the summit in Budapest is postponed, delayed, canceled, choose

one, who knows.

However, there is the conversation of we'll talk about it, and that's at the same time mr zelenski was in

europe meeting with the coalition of the willing that's the usual suspects in nato absent the

u.s this time and mr starmer kir sir kherstarmur was making lavish promises to Mrs. Zelensky.

Moving to other subjects, however, there's a fun topic this week.

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