This is the Friends of History Debating Society.

I'm John Bachelor.

Germanicus joins me, Michael Vleus.

I am Gaius, John Bachelor.

We're in Londonium.

It's 91 AD, the spring of.

The Thames is turbulent.

A storm blew through here, upsetting everyone.

It even tossed some of the graves open into the Thames.

However, we're going to set out that aside as a portent of things to come

and say it's springtime, and turn to the 21st century,

where there is right now a series of events

that are promising at the same time warning.

The events are these.

Over the last week or so, it has been determined by NATO

that the UK and France to start with will transfer cruise missiles.

They have names.

Into the hands of the Ukrainian forces, cruise missiles with ranges more than 100 miles.

Much more than 100 miles.

Air launch cruise missiles.

It's also been determined over these last days

that the F-16, much in the news for the last year,

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