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Slack.com slash THQ. This is the Friendsvisters Debating Society. I'm John Batschow with

Professor H.J. Mackender, International Relations, five capital, five points of view, the

eleventh month of the war, the end of 2022, the prospect of a long war for Russia and for

Kiev. Professor Zelensky's presentation before Congress was stirring and magnificent, and

Churchillian said the newspapers. Churchill came to Washington, as you know, and Washington

in 1941, following Pearl Harbor, and spent many weeks with FDR at the White House, and

a spoke to a joint session of Congress, great cheering. At that point, the US was in with

both feet. Japan had attacked, and Germany had declared war on the US. However, Britain

was looking for aid that was already flowing. The Lendley's program was well underway and

accelerated in December of 1941. As you know, the chiefs of staffs of the British Army

and Navy and Air Force and the American Army Navy and Air Force were already conferring.

There was nothing that started from the beginning. So, looking at Zelensky and his presentation

before Congress is difficult to say these are allies. More that the US is paying for everything,

not only the weapons, but the population that internally displaced anywhere between 6 million

and 14 million people, have already been dislocated. There is no Ukrainian industry to speak

up at this point, because that's the Donbass, the east of the country. What is Kiev's

point of view after 11 months, Professor? Well, I think that Ukraine is aware that they

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