This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I am Gaius John Batzer.

Germanicus Magovlayos is here.

And by the Thames in Londinium, reflecting on the political campaign, but there's a larger story right now in 21st century.

The U.S. and Russia both simultaneously have urged their citizens to leave Lebanon.

The British did that several days past.

At the same time Iran is threatening a barrage as soon as the morrow.

Hezbollah has fired 50 missiles at least now the reporting from Jerusalem.

50 missiles into Northern Upper upper Galile, northern Israel.

The expectation is that a war is imminent

on the basis of the vows made by the Ayatollah

over the corpse of a Hamas killer and by the General

Secretary of Hezbollah Niswala over the corpse of a killer that they will revenge.

I believe Nasrallah was colorfully said Israel will weep.

Whereas the Ayatollah was straight up vow I will get.

What is interesting of course is how does this affect the American Empire given that we're not

directly involved in more fighting. But after 10, 11 months of Gaza, the American public is going to be very

stumped how to regard this and it might not be possible for President Biden to explain it,

which ordinarily you would expect from the Oval Office of 9 o'clock address why we're

continuing to be the backup to Israel. We have fleets moving around in the med

the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea.

We have our ambassadors in Beirut.

We have lots of conversations back channel with Iran.

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