This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I am Gaius. Germantus is here. It's a spring evening

in Lundinium. It's a spring evening in the 21st century as well. All is well for philosophers.

The situation in Rome is no change. Domitian remains the unpopular emperor.

The situation in Washington, D.C. is unchanged.

Mr. Trump remains the unpopular emperor.

How many times have we had unpopular emperors?

How many presidents have we had?

It's the nature of the United States of American

inheriting the Roman talent for putting a man,

always a man, in place so that we cannot dislike him and say, oh, we're so disappointed.

I welcome Germanicus, because we're going to attend immediately to what appears to be breaking news,

although it will not surprise any of you.

There is some explanation necessary as to why this is ironic.

Trump, left and dark over airbase attacks on Russia, reads the London telegraph.

This has to do with a drone attack launched by Keef against Russian airfields where bombers capable of

carrying nuclear weapons were parked out on the tarmac. And the Ukrainians wanted us to know

that they struck them in daylight one by one so that you have a looped video of bomber after

bomber being hit by a suicide drone. And significantly, in the middle of the shot, are these two

words, fail safe. What does that mean? Fail safe. I welcome Dramaticus because he can help me tell

the story. This is from our youth. Dermanicus, a very good day to you. Fail safe. I welcome Dermanicus because he can help me tell the story. This is from our youth.

Dramaticus, a very good day to you, fail safe, which immediately makes me smile because we go

straight to Dr. Strangelove. But let's stop. Let's halt. Let's just hold on fail save.

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