This is the Friends and Mr. Debating Society.

I am Gaias John Bachelors with Germanicus Markov-Leyhose.

Enjoying our cup of wine by the Thames, it is 91 AD,

and we're reflecting on events of the first century AD

and the third and fourth century AD as well.

However, we turn to the matters of the 21st century

that we can see but can't see past it

into the future for the Ukraine conflict.

So I ask the final question, Germanicus.

The Romans believed in diplomacy, but it was one way.

The Roman idea of diplomacy was to make a treaty

with the King of the tribe after he submitted, after.

Once the submission was made, there was lots of generous activity.

The Romans provided security.

They provided an infrastructure.

They were willing to draft your people

to build roads and temples more than the mudhuts

that Britain's lived in.

Submission was the price of transforming yourself

from an enemy to an ally, a alliance.

Is it imaginable to you, and we're thinking the unthinkable?

Is it imaginable to you that Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin

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