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Slack.com slash THQ. This is the Friends Vista Debating Society. I'm John Bachelworth,

Germanicus, my colleague. We're in Londonium by the Thames, our cup of wine, headed to the

theater later where there will be a recreation of the Battle of Actions without water and

with models. However, we're excited by it because it's a break in the preachingness of

Greek theater, which has been weighing on us for months. We turn now to the second

siege underway. This is the siege of Ukraine by General Armageddon, so-called General

Seroviken, who's given the command of the Ukraine theater by Vladimir Putin. Right now,

he's said to have brought discipline and order to the Russian forces at the same time.

The barrage, the reign of missiles and bombs continues to take down the Ukrainian infrastructure,

which means energy, freshwater, heat, all of the modern conveniences that we count on

to call ourselves civilization. Ukraine is in the dark or on and off in the dark. The

population has either evacuated or internally displaced people, huddling in the west of

the country. The east of the country is the battlefield. And the question now is Seroviken's

barrage and his siege tactics. What is his timeline? What do you say, Germanicus, this

week? We've had a week of more barrage, more threats, and Vladimir Putin with a colossal

champagne in his hand seems to understand that it will be a long war.

The opportunity emerged in a way that could not have been predicted by either side, you

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