This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I am Gaius John Bachelor, Lundadium, and

a—well, the Thames is all stirred up with the runoff of the rains here at the end of

winter in 91 AD. And we're looking forward to springtime, and the southern part of Lund

adium is entirely flooded. It does that every spring. We're not unhappy about it, because

we live in the northern part of the Thames. And it's dry here. We're reflecting upon a puzzle,

at least a puzzle that I came across when I was reading about Nero. Nero was favored by

the popularized, the common people. He subsidized them. He entertained them. He was a singer.

They applauded him. They understand he—though he was emperor, though he was the last of the

Julian clodians. He wanted to be loved. And they appreciated that. He was also on

optimates who was untouchable, but the optimates rejected him, because he was a boy, child,

man, killed his mother, murdered his mother, murdered all of his counselors, murdered everyone

around him, because he became unstable, several personalities in one. I don't do psychology,

or I just say that we're aware that things can go wrong when the optimates lose confidence in

the emperor and the king. So what is happening now in the NATO war in Europe is that the king is

running for re-election. That would be Joe Biden, President Joe Biden. In Moscow, Vladimir Putin is

the king that Tsar doesn't need to run for re-election. The contest looks to be between these two,

the king in Washington and the king in Moscow. But the question is asked, why Moscow? Germanicus,

it's so obvious you can't see it, or at least I didn't see it right away. Moscow would not be my

candidate for the devil incarnate. I would not nominate anybody out of Moscow as Satan. They're a—well,

to say that they're a patriarchy driven by their extreme religiosity is not an overstatement. That

is the history of Russia for a thousand years. And the Eastern Orthodox blessed this war. We know

this in Moscow. So how is it that NATO has made Moscow the threat and not the far richer, far more

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