#Ukraine: Brussels POV: Ready for destabilized Russia? Professor H.J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety
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🗓️ 21 May 2023
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#Ukraine: Brussels POV: Ready for destabilized Russia? Professor H.J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety
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| 0:15.2 | This is the Friends of History and Bating Society. I'm John Boucher, |
| 0:18.0 | six capital, six points of view. The six capital today is a surprise we'll reveal at the end. |
| 0:23.6 | Right now we turn to the well-known Keith, standing up to the Russian bear. |
| 0:29.6 | However, Mr. Zelensky, the president has been traveling, and most recently the travel was a surprise. |
| 0:36.5 | In a French aircraft provided by President Macron, not only did Mr. Zelensky stop in Rihard, |
| 0:43.8 | welcomed by MBS by the Saudi leadership, but also he traveled on to Hiroshima, Japan, |
| 0:51.9 | to meet with the G7, including those invited to the G7, notably Lula de Silva, |
| 0:58.1 | Brazil, who was spoken fence-sitting about the U.K. conflict, and Eurentra Modi, |
| 1:06.6 | who has gone from one side of the fence to the other back and forth, back and forth in the Indian |
| 1:11.9 | fashion. However, his country is making a great deal of money on the sanctions against Russian |
| 1:17.2 | energy, because as I understand it, there are refineries and cutouts in India that are handling |
| 1:24.2 | Russian crude, turning it into expensive refined oil, and shipping to the world. So Modi's making money, |
| 1:31.5 | Lula wants to make money, but both men were told, have been confronted by Mr. Zelensky about what |
| 1:38.9 | are you thinking? This is the G7. You're participating in world order. Russia is not that professor. |
| 1:46.0 | Keif's point of view, Mr. Zelensky is a bold actor. Will Lula de Silva and Modi, and Nurentra Modi, |
| 1:54.0 | bow their heads to him? Well, I think he is extremely effective. I don't think that Lula really is a |
| 2:05.9 | geo-strategist. He's very good at working the system in Brazil, though, and the most recent |
| 2:13.2 | election has polarized the country. So there they are with a convicted criminal and power who |
| 2:21.7 | is deliriously popular, and it made the claim when he was in China. He knows how to suck up to people, |
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