S8 Ep701: 2. GUEST GAIUS AND GERMANICUS DEBATE N LONDINIUM, SPRING 92 AD. (3) The discourse turns to the "impending economic calamity" caused by soaring energy prices and global supply chain disruptions. Germanicus warns that the Emperor’s failure to balance "guns
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2. GUEST GAIUS AND GERMANICUS DEBATE N LONDINIUM, SPRING 92 AD. (3)
The discourse turns to the "impending economic calamity" caused by soaring energy prices and global supply chain disruptions. Germanicus warns that the Emperor’s failure to balance "guns and butter" has already baked in a recession and potential global famine. They compare the current climate of rumors to the psychological state of WWII Berliners, noting that the public increasingly relies on conspiracy rather than official news. Germanicus suggests a cornered leader might escalate war as a final distraction, concluding that in a classic emperor system, only a "conspiracy" among the ruling class can unseat a failing ruler. (4)
CLAUDIUS BEGS FOR HIS LIFE FROM THE GUARD THAT WILL MAKE HIM EMPEROR.
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| 0:00.0 | I am Gaius in Lundinian. |
| 0:05.0 | Jamantus is here, and we're turning to something domestic in the 21st century. |
| 0:12.0 | The price of refilling your tank of gasoline for the week's drive or the commuting you're doing. |
| 0:20.0 | We're told that the prices will continue until the driver of the prices worldwide is the war in the Gulf, |
| 0:31.8 | and also the inability of the supply chain to respond in kind. |
| 0:36.6 | The supply chain is interrupted and it takes time to get back into a logical flow. |
| 0:44.3 | Right now, gasoline in America is above $4 a gallon. |
| 0:48.6 | It's headed to five. |
| 0:49.8 | The futures market can tell you where it has to go. |
| 1:00.4 | The Middle East is troubled and unable to get oil out in the fashion at once, |
| 1:09.7 | meaning that the supply chain at the origins are disrupting to our allies and our adversaries. |
| 1:13.6 | China's disrupted, India's disrupted, Japan's disrupted. |
| 1:21.6 | Europe is extremely stressed, so much so that there was talk in the Bundestag last week. |
| 1:29.7 | Why is it exactly we're paying and then name a price for electricity, because that's the big one in Germany. |
| 1:42.9 | When we could have Russian oil and Russian gas by just turning and looking east, why are we doing this for 80 square miles of the Dunbass? |
| 1:47.0 | Is that why we're doing it? That question doesn't have an answer, |
| 1:55.4 | but it does explain why the party AFD did very well in the Rhineland-Pelatinate vote, state votes, |
| 2:01.5 | not the national vote, states vote at different times of the year. And they're headed into a vote in Eastern Germany, which is extremely favorable to AFD, but that vote will influence the Bundestag. |
| 2:08.9 | And the Bundestag influences the EU at Brussels. And Brussels influences London, influences the price |
| 2:15.4 | of oil. It's all connected. And right now, where it's |
| 2:19.2 | headed is higher, meaning that the central banks will have to work again at worrying about |
| 2:26.8 | inflation and unemployment, both the ECB in Brussels and the Federal Reserve in Washington. |
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