#Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus observe that the nuclear-armed Eurasia Bloc (Moscow, Minsk, Tehran, Beijing) faces off the NATO Bloc for the 21st Century. Michael Vlahos. Friends of History Debating Society
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🗓️ 27 February 2023
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#Londinium90AD: Gaius and Germanicus observe that the nuclear-armed Eurasia Bloc (Moscow, Minsk, Tehran, Beijing) faces off the NATO Bloc for the 21st Century. Michael Vlahos. Friends of History Debating Society.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/25/world/europe/china-belarus-leader-russia-ukraine.html
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| 0:20.2 | This is the Friends of History Debating Society. |
| 0:22.2 | I'm John Batch with Michael Playhouse, who is Germanicus. |
| 0:25.8 | I am Gaias, and we take up our role as Roman philosophers of crisis in the 1st century AD. |
| 0:34.0 | We've seen plenty in our lifetime. |
| 0:36.0 | Good heavens, just a few years ago, Boduk and her ravagers were right through Londonium. |
| 0:42.0 | Fortunately, we missed that rendezvous, but we're aware that it happens routinely in the 1st century AD of Rome. |
| 0:49.0 | Hence, the might of Rome guarantees our security. |
| 0:53.4 | We're idle men. |
| 0:54.6 | We have time. |
| 0:55.4 | We're headed to the theater later. |
| 0:57.4 | But we're looking at the 21st century and the conflict in Ukraine. |
| 1:01.2 | We're also looking at the map of Eurasia, the world island. |
| 1:05.0 | We're told that Xi Jinping, the president of China, |
| 1:08.2 | plans an embassy to Moscow. |
| 1:10.8 | That's why his chief diplomatic deputy, Wang Yi, was in Moscow to discuss that pending visit. |
| 1:18.4 | We're also told that the president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, plans to meet with Xi Jinping. |
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