#Londinium90AD: Gaius & Germanicus debate the Ukraine breaking point. Michael Vlahos. Friends of History Debating Society. @Michalis_Vlahos
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#Londinium90AD: Gaius & Germanicus debate the Ukraine breaking point. Michael Vlahos. Friends of History Debating Society. @Michalis_Vlahos
https://compactmag.com/article/the-ukrainian-army-is-breaking
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| 0:30.2 | This is the Prince of History debating society. I am Gaias, John Bachelor. I welcome |
| 0:34.4 | Germanicus, Mark of Playhouse. It is Londonium 91 AD, late summer. I'm just in from the garden. I was |
| 0:41.6 | delayed our standing Sunday evening debate argument observation philosophizing. I delayed it because |
| 0:50.7 | I'm frustrated here in Londonium. I'm trying to grow a decent vineyard. It's too cold, it's too wet. |
| 0:58.0 | Now I know because Germanicus and I can see a thousand, two thousand years ahead. |
| 1:04.0 | I know there will be a medieval warming period which maddens me because I won't be around to be |
| 1:10.0 | at an abbey or a monastery and have excellent wine. They traded it for several centuries and then |
| 1:16.9 | but in any event history will provide. I turn to the history right now of the long-standing |
| 1:26.1 | quandary, the battle in Ukraine, between the Russian Federation and its allies and NATO and its |
| 1:34.0 | allies. Germanicus, you've written at Compact Magazine a new publication founded and edited by |
| 1:40.8 | Sarabamari and Matthew Schmitz. You've written of what we do not see, do not have good information, |
| 1:48.0 | do not have transparency about the Ukrainian counteroffensive. In fact, the whole battlefield |
| 1:55.3 | that I look upon. When I read your essay, it reminds me again of how the armies of the first war, |
| 2:03.1 | the Great War, ground to a near halt in 1917 so that only the entrance of the Americans. |
| 2:11.2 | Only the ability to rush to the front and blunt the German offensive of 1918, the spring of 1918, |
| 2:20.2 | when they brought troops in from the Russian surrender. Only it happens to chance, chance, |
| 2:25.6 | lock. Left they war to be resolved, otherwise that stalemate could have gone on for years. |
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