This is the French Vistory Debating Society. I am Gaias John Bachelor and I welcome

Germanicus Mark of Leos to comment on what we know so far of the conflict in

Ukraine which is a wider war, says the Russian speakers, NATO versus Russia,

which is an effort to maintain the sovereignty of Central European State,

says NATO, and the headlines from the telegraph tell a mixed story of what

appears to be more violence. US still refusing to send long-range attack of

missiles to Ukraine writes the telegraph. US reportedly has a limited stockpile

that is concerned about escalation despite pleas from Zelensky and Congress.

Also, Lukashenko, the dictator of Belarus, struggling to keep Wagner troops from

attacking Poland. This matches the news over these last days that Poland has

ordered two combat brigades closer to the border or on the border, opposite

where the Wagner troops are deployed in agreement with the Kremlin after the

mutiny. And we have news that Belarus's army is going to be exercising in some

fashion with the Wagner groups. Then we have Russian missile strike to

destroy historic Odessa Cathedral. Then we have drone attack on ammunition dump

halts trains in Crimea. Then we have paranoid Putin bolsters his national guard

protect him from another coup. Germanic is a very good evening to. The some

total of this is more chaos from both sides. You however have an

thought experiment for us that may inform the immediate future. Please

explain. Good evening to you. Good evening, guys. The the thought experiment is to

understand better from what we know of situations in the past, including the

distant past of what makes for defeat in a war. And one of the most critical

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