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#Ukraine: Kyiv POV: frustration. Professor H.J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

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🗓️ 3 July 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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#Ukraine: Kyiv POV: frustration. Professor H.J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

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This is the Friends of Inj...

0:31.9

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

0:39.2

International Relations. In a week following the turmoil in Russia,

0:43.9

holiday weekend for America, but for Moscow and Kiev, the war continues.

0:50.7

Zelensky is adamant. Western Allies dragging their feet over pilot training.

0:55.8

Zelensky is adamant. The war ends with negotiation once Russians have left Donbass and Crimea.

1:03.6

Zelensky is adamant, and so are the commanders at the front line. The counteroffensive continues.

1:10.2

Professor Keath's point of view at this point. Zelensky, do we just underline what he says,

1:16.3

or are they looking for a negotiation in something short of Russia retreating?

1:22.4

I view is that you say that Zelensky is adamant, then you add that the front line commanders are adamant.

1:31.1

I want to know who in Ukraine is emollient. Where is the peace party in Ukraine?

1:39.9

I think that the atrocities committed by the Russians against the Ukrainians

1:45.7

have created hatred of Ukrainians to Russians, which did not exist before this war.

1:52.1

They used to get along with each other. They used to visit each other's countries.

1:55.9

They used to marry each other. It was a much, much different relationship.

2:03.7

And I think that you're going to be very hard pressed to find any Ukrainian who will settle for

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