This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm Gaius.

Germanicus and I are discussing the Imperial Project, which we know very well.

It's 91 AD, the Thaws on. We're very secure because of the Imperial Project.

We have legions that are dispatched to trouble some areas.

Otherwise, the adversaries, such as they exist at the edges of the empire, do not poke their

noses into our business.

Not in 91 AD.

That will happen several hundred years from now.

But right now, our foes, our adversaries, are warned that if you cross Rome, we point a legion at you,

and they keep going until you're destroyed or you surrender into slavery. That's what happens

to anybody dissenting from Rome.

Germanicus, there's no polite way to say this, so I'll get to it.

21st century Europe, they're vassals of the imperial project.

We call them allies because we're polite.

These last days, the European powers, middle power, I believe they call

themselves to use the word power at all, have demonstrated that not only can they not come to an

agreement to defend themselves, but also they blame us for their inability to come to terms with

their own defense. They blame us. You've always provided defense force. Now you're going to

abandon us, I believe, is a way of paraphrasing the complaint. They had an emergency meeting in

Paris, no decision. The next day they had a same emergency meeting, hybrid,

people on Zoom, no decision. So, we know the Imperial Project maintains relations with edges of the empire.

However, these particular powers, the middle powers of Europe, believe they're threatened by Russia.

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