#Ukraine: Kyiv POV: Restless fears. Professor H.J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety
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🗓️ 5 March 2023
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#Ukraine: Kyiv POV: Restless fears. Professor H.J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety
#Ukraine: Moscow POV:Gestures toward talking peace. Professor H.J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety
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| 0:20.4 | This is the Friends of History Debating Society. |
| 0:22.4 | I'm John Bachelord, Professor H.J. Mackender, commenting on six capital six points of view. |
| 0:27.8 | We move from the Moscow point of view to the Keith point of view, which continues ammo, ammo, ammo. |
| 0:33.9 | And yet, Keith is aware and often talks about how sooner is better than later when it comes to war termination. |
| 0:43.7 | Not just the situation on the ground, ammunition so short that I'm told they're firing one artillery shells for every six of the Russians, |
| 0:54.8 | but also because Keith is aware politically that there is softening support for the undetermined end of the conflict in Europe. |
| 1:06.0 | Not just about energy supplies or ammo supplies, but about the world getting on with its business of recovering from the pandemic, solving sticky inflation, and comedy, something that existed before the Ukraine conflict. |
| 1:19.6 | In fact, Ukraine is aware that the whispering is not just in the U.S. Congress, either party, but also those around the president saying, what are we fighting for? |
| 1:31.7 | Professor, Keith is sensitive. |
| 1:34.3 | What is their point of view now after one year of warfare? |
| 1:38.8 | Well, I think that they have every reason to be optimistic about eventually prevailing, or they have many reasons, not perhaps all every reason to be optimistic about prevailing, but they, of course, depend entirely on foreign supplies for their munitions. |
| 2:00.4 | And they're the only ones who are fighting in the war, although there's a whole alliance that's supporting them. |
| 2:07.2 | There are no foreign soldiers supporting them. |
| 2:11.0 | Now, of course, I think that they would like a short war. |
| 2:15.6 | Short wars are better than long wars, although I think that the fall of Afghanistan is perhaps a little bit too fast, because if you blinked, you would have missed that. |
| 2:24.9 | But most wars, World War I, World War II, they're sort of four years. |
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