#Londinium90AD: Gaius & Germanicus debate the talk of "war crimes" as expedient rhetoric of the winning side, based upon a reading of Gary J. Bass "Judgment at Tokyo." Michael Vlahos. Friends of History Debating Society. @Michalis_Vlahos
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 13 November 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:30.0 | I am Gaius, John Batcher Mac of Leosus is Germanicus. This is the Friends of History |
| 0:36.7 | debating society. We're in Londidium. It's Chile and here in Londidium 91 AD. |
| 0:42.0 | We're safe, we're secure. We don't work, we have Greeks who do |
| 0:47.7 | everything and they're very good and they're very thorough and someday they'll run the empire. But not yet. We're in the first century |
| 0:56.2 | AD. The mission is adequate as the emperor but he's far away so he doesn't bother |
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| 1:05.8 | winter, the centurians are comfortable, the retired centurians. And we're |
| 1:11.4 | speculating about the 21st century and the two wars, three wars. |
| 1:17.0 | I mentioned however war crimes because there's a new book in the 21st century. |
| 1:22.0 | All of you are lucky you can read it immediately. It's |
| 1:28.4 | 700 plus pages. It is entitled Judgment at Tokyo, which is deliberately meant to reflect judgment at Nuremberg. |
| 1:36.9 | The Tokyo War Crimes Trials, that's what they were called. |
| 1:40.4 | Tokyo Tribunal followed the Nuremberg Tribunal. |
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