#Ukraine: #DC POV: POTUS measures while Congress ponders and Ukraine burns. Professor H.J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety
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🗓️ 12 February 2023
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#Ukraine: #DC POV: POTUS measures while Congress ponders and Ukraine burns. Professor H.J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety
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| 0:30.7 | This is the Friends Vistue Debating Society. I'm John Batso with Professor H.J. Mackinder, |
| 0:35.2 | six capital, six points of view. Just short of the one year anniversary of the attack on |
| 0:41.6 | Ukraine, Russians like anniversaries to launch new offensives. They like to celebrate anniversaries |
| 0:48.1 | of victories and defeats such as Stalingrad. Right now we're in DC. It is generally said |
| 0:55.2 | cynically that American foreign policy is an extension of domestic policy. The president's |
| 1:00.5 | state of the Union message was mostly domestic policy. There was mention of the Chinese |
| 1:06.6 | provocation of surveillance balloons. There certainly was mention of supporting Ukraine, |
| 1:12.2 | which got a rousing standing ovation from all members of Congress. Professor DC's point |
| 1:19.0 | of view at this time of the war. Does DC want to negotiate? It's talking armor, but not |
| 1:25.2 | warplanes. Well, I would have to say that from the standpoint of someone who knows even |
| 1:31.2 | a little bit about how wars are fought, what you need, what we're hearing from Washington |
| 1:40.5 | is really that we want the Ukrainians to win, but they're going to have to make bricks |
| 1:46.4 | without straw. Mr. Biden has said no aircraft for Ukraine. He was asked and he simply said |
| 1:57.1 | no. Well, the question then is how are they going to fight? I mean, in a 21st century |
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