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This is the Friends of Mr. Debating Society. I am Gaius, John Bachelor, Germanicus, Michael

Leos. We look to immediately from our vantage on the Thames, we're Roman citizens, it's the year 91 AD, springtime, cool again here

in London.

The centurians and their wives are trundling on home, have the evening meal with the family.

We're headed to the theater, but in the meantime, we have not a profound change from the battlefield in Ukraine, but the American Congress has decided

to send a package in some fashion combining arms and ammunition, and aid, and direct injection of cash into Ukrainian government

in Keith.

And for the moment that lifts the pressure that was building about surrender or die on Ukraine

and allows the Europeans to speculate.

So we're going to begin in the battlefield, which again I

emphasize has not changed profoundly. However, we're looking at events that

matter to the telegraph, so I'll go with the headlines.

For example, Kremlin accuses David Cameron, foreign minister of the United Kingdom,

of, quote, direct escalation over weapons for key, or more than 100 Russian soldiers killed an

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