This is a friend's of history debating society. I am Gaius, John Bachelor. And Germanicus is here, Michael

of Leos, whereby the Thames, it's early summer. The Thames is quiet. the centurians retired and their families have gone home, were headed

to the theater, but we pause to observe ironies in the 21st century, especially regarding the new Tsar, Vladimir Putin,

and his travels.

We note that Vladimir Putin recently an embassy visiting Pyongyang linking arms with the

dictator Kim and then visiting Vietnam and raising a hand of a gesture of peace beside the

Vietnamese president in Hanoi. At the same time there was a flotilla dispatched by the Kremlin of surface ships and a nuclear-powered

boomer in Havana Harbor.

So I note Germanicus for your observation and reflection that Vladimir Putin in the 21st century

visiting three capitals that pretty much define the frustration and the futility of how the American Empire

fought the Cold War.

Good evening to youus. The success of the Russian Renovatio, to use a word we Romans know very well and aspire to when things get rough in the

empire has worked out well in In fact, I have for many years and I wrote a couple

articles for the globalist back in 2014 saying just that, namely that Putin was seeking not a recreation of the Zarist empire,

but rather a Russian Renovatio of Russia re-assuming its place on the world stage and once again

acting and presenting itself as a great power.

And it therefore makes perfect sense

in a theatrical or operatic sense for Russia now to revisit old friends from the

former Soviet times and in fact Russia's connection to its Cold War

satrapies if if you will of North Korea, Vietnam, once North Vietnam, and Cuba makes perfect sense.

And to do so in a modern way in the sense that with the Soviet Union gone and with these other countries

still somewhat isolated,

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