This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Bachelors, Professor H.J. McHunder,

International Relations, six capital six points of view. And the week, the days, the counteroffensive

is underway, the critical nature of the successor failure on the battlefield. And Washington is attending

Donald Trump. The federal authorities have been guided Donald Trump for abusing documents

over a great period of time. It's a 49-page indictment. It is complex but straightforward at

the same time. The former president is accused of violating the Espionage Act, which is a major

roadblock when you're handling not necessarily classified documents, national security documents.

He's also accused of conspiracy, of obstruction, of deception, an array of charges that are

fundamentally threatening to his freedom. However, he's a major candidate for a presidential

nomination for the Republican Party. And that is where all eyes have turned these last days,

not on Ukraine. So, Professor, is there a Washington point of view this week about Ukraine?

Well, Mr. Kissinger arrived in China for the first time and met Joe and Lai. He said something

which would cause him to receive an earned F in diplomacy, one at any university. He said,

I'm so glad to see your mysterious country. You don't say mysterious about a country that is

quite familiar to the people who lived there and about which you're quite capable of learning,

although he hasn't learned. We think of the Chinese or even the Russians as being

inscrutable, but by God, we Americans are extraordinarily inscrutable. And there is a shortage

around the world of America's specialists in government and think tanks and all the rest,

who have a real command of American history, in particular, there's a complete lack of understanding

of how important the 19th century was in forming the United States. That is, from the time of the

Napoleonic Wars, till the advent of stameships, which could only carry a few people,

the United States was effectively isolated from Europe and we had to develop our own culture,

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