This is a Friends of History debating society. I'm John Batfler Gaius and I welcome Germanicus, Michael

Lejos. We're in Londittium, relaxed, winter coming on, the Thames is turbulent.

The affairs of the retired centurians and their families around us are tying up at the

end of the day.

It's gotten dark, we're going on the theater.

We've got our togas on, our extra thick togas. and our

comfort here speculating about the 21st century and the trouble's

speculating about the 21st century and the troubles it knows

two wars and a third war threatened on the

Eurasian supercontinent. Germanicus a good day to you. A victory lap

Germanicus. I read the headline from the Economist magazine. These are the Oxbridge Smart Set,

really smart. Putin seems to be winning the war in Ukraine for now. His biggest accent is Europe's lack of strategic vision. There you have

it Germanicus. Already the Oxford said in the 21st century is condemning the men

and women who will inherit from us the Roman Empire strategic

vision and they've failed to conquer the Russian forces in Ukraine.

Germanicus is everything you said it would be except for you didn't mention the

Shadenfroida that was coming.

Good evening to you.

Ah, Gaius, it is no joy to have been, shall I say, right, all these months?

It's like ashes in my mouth because it is such a terrible outcome.

And you quite rightly, Grace the Oxbridge set, the brilliant men of Cambridge in Oxford and how they are so smart.

And what I've noticed for a long time,

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