This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Batchewith with Gaius and Germanicus.

And we're, in Lunditium, we're philosophizing. And it has come up that the Emperor to Be, we're in an interregnum now, for these next days.

Emperor to be is identified two locations, Greenland and Panama, as necessary to

defend America from its adversaries. Panama is a rich story dating back to TR more than 100 years

ago, and we will address that in coming weeks.

There's lots of time.

Say that when it was handed off by Mr. Carter,

you had all the elements together sitting in the front two benches in the basilica.

Mr. Carter present, his soul in heaven, and all of these elements were not able in their time and today to solve giving away Panama.

We'll leave that.

I want to turn to Greenland because this is a landmass that is very much part of the story of global warming, also the story of colonial power. Denmark is

the possessor of Greenland in terms of sovereignty. Mr. Trump has said, we're going to buy Greenland.

My opinion as a Roman is, okay, take it. If you need it, take it.

Might of Rome requires defenses. We guarantee, we Romans, civilization. If we give up our

understanding of civilization, that means we've given up our understanding of power, of authority.

Germanicus, you know this case very well.

I'm struck by the Europeans, our allies these years, forgetting that we put them back together twice, well, once completely,

the first time we were regretful that we'd gotten involved, put them together twice,

and they're sitting around aghast at our rudeness in one in Greenland.

How do you measure the Europeans our allies?

Are they our allies, or are they kibitzers in a

power game? Well, you know, when you have small children, they can create all sorts of issues. When they're

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