This is the French Fister debating society. I am Gaius and Macavlaius is here, he's Germanicus.

We're in Londinium, we're by the Thames. It's grey, but then it again, it is the Thames and the skies gray however it's spring gray and

that's happy the flowers and the vines and everything's ready to burst out it's

late in the afternoon the centurians and their families have

gone home so the marketplace is quieted down and we're reflecting on events in

the 21st century reminding both of us that we were recruited as teenagers to be

auxiliaries to NATO. I was taught Russian and Germanicus went into

services, various services, front line stuff eventually.

I never got there.

However, I did have my Russian language classes before football games in high school, and then I took a year of Russian

in university, all ready to go to war in some fashion.

It didn't come that way. However, it might have and perhaps the observation that's most ironic now is

We're going to get back to that moment when the Cold War turns hot between the two powers.

That would be Mother Russia and the United States of America's NATO.

However, Germanicus, NATO headlines, UK and

US aid for Ukraine should inspire others to do more, says Estonia's Iron Lady,

that's Kaja Kales, the leader of Estonia, the smallest of the

Baltics and the reason to worry because Small would be gobbled up in sort of an afternoon if there's any disruption at all

in the flow towards the exclave, Kalin Grad on the other side of the politics. Remember, Vladimir Putin has the

Baltics in a tight embrace. Belarus, Kalin Grad, and the Baltic Sea, there's really not a lot of room to make mistakes.

Another NATO headline.

If you see an attack coming, all you can do is duck,

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