This is the Friends Fisture Debating Society. I'm John Batcher with Professor H.A. MacKinder,

International Relations, five capitals. We go to Keefe. Professor, the Russian military commander

known as General Armageddon is Pet Name, has stabilized Russia's front lines in Ukraine

since taking over in October goes the report from London. Analysts say that General

Serovikan, organizational abilities and ruthless system, made him a dangerous adversary. He's

probably the most competent commander Russia has put in place so far, set a senior policy researcher

at the at the RAN corporation. What he's meaning to do is to freeze the civilian population left

in side Ukraine to make it impossible to heat and we know the temperatures can go to minus 20 degrees

centigrade, which is much colder than human beings can stand. Your measure, professor, will

this work on a depopulated, derasinated country? Well, I would have to say that General Serovikan is

he may be the best commander they have, but he's a borderline mafia also as far as his whole

career goes. He's not a, but he is certainly better than who they've had before. So we're starting

to see tens of thousands of Russians being thrown into battles and the Ukrainians being pushed back

by that. Having said that, though, I think that this is not going to make a strategic difference.

I don't think that the cold is going to be decisive. If we look at World War I, World War II,

the Korean War, it's certainly true at the reservoir in Korea that 30,000 Chinese troops

froze to death and so forth. I'm not making light of this at all, but in war,

things get done that have to be done for military purposes. And I think that what's happening,

what we're seeing in the war between Ukraine and Russia is a slow, but nonetheless, an almost

inexorable process of Russia slowly being defeated. I think we all have a sense that Russia is not

immovable in the way that she seemed to be earlier. That says, however, I think they're very,

very far from wanting to make a compromise. So I think we're going to see some escalation in that

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