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This is the Friends of History Debating Society.

I am Gaius.

Germanicus is here.

We had a busy week of contradictions,

and we're puzzled by some of the conduct of the American

Empire in the 21st century. Puzzled is a polite word. Confounded would be stronger.

And there are other words than that, but we'll stay with Puzzled. The three major concerns

we have here in Lundaneum is that the Americans are not quite certain

they're an empire and are not quite certain how an empire conducts itself.

There are analogies, but then they slip away when we see some of the foolishness.

We had our foolishness in our time as well, but empire, it requires attention to detail.

And it's not clear that the American Empire is concerned with detail right now.

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