This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I am Gaius. Germanicus is here. We're in Londidium and we're turning to the 21st century again.

Although this time it's not just about Musk, the richest man in the solar system who wants to die on Mars.

It's also about right immediately the war between Jerusalem and Tehran.

This has been building for many, many years,

and the US is now watching, Russia is watching, Beijing is watching, all the powers are watching.

What happens next?

We don't know.

But we do know that what we've got here is an opportunity for what in a video game would be called the final battle.

You make your way through all the levels of the game and you come to the big boss and you better

be equipped, you better have the right armor the right tools the right moves I've

seen children play this and the real world Israel has all the right tools and Tehran

is either acting a martyr to its cause or has a trick we don't know about.

I can't tell.

Germanicus what I'm interested in your response is.

In the Roman Empire, in our empire, we like final battles.

We like it when the enemy gives battle, and it's very frustrating when they do not.

One, do you believe Tehran will give battle because Israel is ready?

And two, does this in any fashion tell us about the direction that the Eurasian

wars are moving? The war in Ukraine, the war in Hamas, the war in Hezbollah, the war with

Tehran, the war with the Houthis, the war in East Asia between Taiwan and

Beijing.

Can we learn anything from this final battle?

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