#Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus debate, "Who lost Ukraine?" Michael Vlahos. Friends of History Debating Society. @Michalis_Vlahos
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🗓️ 11 December 2023
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https://carnegieendowment.org/politika/91182
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| 0:30.1 | This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I am Gaius John Bachelor and Michael Vlaius Germanicus joins. |
| 0:38.0 | Germanicus, who lost Ukraine? Where do we begin? Was it 1991 with the fiction that the Soviet Union was |
| 0:50.4 | no more? Is that when we lost it, presuming that that was the end of something as opposed to a phase? |
| 0:57.0 | Who lost Ukraine? Was it the treaties that put Ukraine into the position right now of being passed back and forth |
| 1:06.5 | between Russia, the Soviets, and Ukraine itself? That sovereignty question in the early 50s, |
| 1:12.1 | Khrushchev? Or was it always going to be? sovereignty question in the early 50s? Cruz Jeff? |
| 1:13.5 | Or was it always going to be a battle about Keith and Moscow? |
| 1:18.8 | Have they always been at odds with each other? |
| 1:21.5 | And the presumption in the end of the 20th, the early 21st |
| 1:26.7 | that Ukraine was independent of Moscow that presumption proved false it was not well |
| 1:32.0 | informed. Who lost Ukraine? I think it was the |
| 1:37.9 | arrogance and narcissism of the been expected a victory that seemed out of reach through much of the period of the Cold War, |
| 1:57.0 | the U.S. never thought that the Soviet Union would be defeated and then come apart. So there was a suspension of disbelief. |
| 2:08.2 | There was a sense that we could do anything in the world. and frankly that that arrogance and narcissism lasted a good |
| 2:18.0 | a good 30 years and it was the same kind of assumption of invincibility and of the US as the |
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