This is the Friends of Istria Debating Society. I'm with Germanicus, Mark of Lejos, whereby

the Thames, I'm Gaias John Batchler. Reflecting on 2000 years from now, and the Roman Empire,

the might of Rome, being expressed by the American Empire, and the American Empire is holding

back on what it knows, what it believes, but not recently. When the American Empire is

saying they're out of anti-air, that's a way of saying they're out of time, that this war

will not last indefinitely, and that our surrogate support has failed. Germanicus, the battlefield,

Bachmou, the Wagner group, continues the assaults raising flags here and there. The Ukrainians,

to what I can understand, this is the Institute of Study of War, which is a useful cutout for

DOD, says that there is resistance, it's resembles Stalin-Grad, even when Stalin-Grad was subdued,

there was still resistance. So how do you measure the battlefield now?

It's a disaster for Ukraine, in the sense that Ukraine, meaning Kiev, meaning Zelensky, willingly

entered the trap that the Russians had laid for Ukraine, which was to make Bachmou, or Artem

Jofsky, as it will henceforth be known, into a focal point of national attrition for the Ukrainian

military. And while Western observers are crowing and have been for the last six or eight months

over the fact that Bachmou has not fallen, either stupidly or cynically,

miss the point that what the Russians have been doing is using Bachmou as a way to bleed

the Ukrainian military out and have been successful in doing that. And the losses suffered there have

been absolutely horrendous. And the Russians have used a, quote-unquote, private military group,

which is nonetheless a part of the Russian military, but using that private group of volunteers

and volunteer prisoners up to a point to bear the brown of the fighting. And for Ukraine to

suffer the disproportionate number of casualties that they have, and there's no way of getting around

it, and it is a, not, it's not a crime within our legal compass, but it's a kind of crime against

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