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#LONDINIUM90AD: GAIUS & GERMANICUS COMMENT ON FIVE EYES ELECTIONS AND CLOSE WITH THOUGHTS ON ATTILA (406-453 AD). ELECTIONSMICHAEL VLAHOS. FRIENDS OF HISTORY DEBATING SOCIETY. @MICHALIS_VLAHOS

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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#LONDINIUM90AD: GAIUS & GERMANICUS  COMMENT ON FIVE EYES ELECTIONS AND CLOSE WITH THOUGHTS ON ATTILA (406-453 AD).  ELECTIONSMICHAEL VLAHOS. FRIENDS OF HISTORY DEBATING SOCIETY. @MICHALIS_VLAHOS
UNDATED ATTILA

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0:00.0

This is the Friends of Mr. Debating Society in Lunditiam on a beautiful spring evening,

0:05.4

an Irish mist outside, the green fresh.

0:08.2

We're going to the theater later.

0:09.7

We sit in the covered portion because we're Equus class.

0:13.0

There is a covered portion for Equus.

0:14.9

We don't have senators here right now.

0:17.1

Sometimes they visit, but we're very far from Rome.

0:20.1

I always mention that because it's what Germanicus and I agree upon.

0:25.2

It's the reason we can range into the 21st century.

0:28.8

We would never speak this way in Rome.

0:31.3

Good heavens.

0:33.0

It's very dangerous to talk about topics like succession and war and even worse to talk about

0:40.3

forgetting things like who's in who's in charge no but here in londinium 30,000 or more

0:48.1

people retired centurions and their families lots of trading and a However, there will be bumps along the way. And we don't

0:59.8

make light of them. For example, in the fourth and fifth century, Roman Britons will be in a panic mode

1:07.1

because Rome has withdrawn its umbrella, its defenses. The Western Rome, not Constantinople,

1:16.3

the Western Rome. But right now, we're going to turn to a topic that is presenting itself.

1:23.0

Anthony Albanese wins re-election as the premier of Australia.

1:29.8

Mark Carney, not a politician, wins a continuation of his premiership in Canada.

1:37.5

The vote in Britain, however, not national, local, suggests another direction for mr. Farage's reform party

1:49.4

which I can't define easily that's on purpose but it certainly dissents from

1:56.0

the overwhelming majority of labor in Parliament and the rag-tag Tories are what they've become

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