#Ukraine: London POV: Taking the lead in Europe. Professor H.J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety
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🗓️ 28 May 2023
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#Ukraine: London POV: Taking the lead in Europe. Professor H.J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety
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| 0:00.0 | Will interest rates change again? |
| 0:02.0 | What's new where I live? |
| 0:04.0 | Whatever the question, Google helps people in the UK access reliable news on a wide range of stories. |
| 0:11.0 | Learn more at g.co-supportingnews-uk |
| 0:15.0 | This is the Friends Vistory Debating Society. I'm John Bachelorette with the generous Professor H.J. Maccandor International Relations. |
| 0:22.0 | Candon is the guest capital of the week. Why? |
| 0:24.0 | Rishi Tsunak, the Prime Minister. |
| 0:26.0 | In Tertetet Confab with Mr. Zalensky during the Hiroshima G7 meeting. |
| 0:32.0 | Much attention from the Defense Ministry, the Minister of Defense Ben Wallace. |
| 0:42.0 | For months, arming and pouring weapons in and training into Ukraine. |
| 0:48.0 | And remarks out of London routinely now take the place of remarks out of key for the battlefield and the counteroffensive. |
| 0:59.0 | In other words, Europe as a whole has contributed to Ukraine. |
| 1:04.0 | But London is taking a lead in speaking about it and acting about it in some fresh way. |
| 1:12.0 | I come to the Professor to see if there's some plan here or it's just the way London works. |
| 1:20.0 | Having left the European Union, it still thinks it's in charge. |
| 1:24.0 | Well, I think actually the UK policy has been very wise and that they are ahead of their European comrades as to what the role of a country. |
| 1:40.0 | Britain, which is the UK's 90,000 square miles, it's not very big. |
| 1:46.0 | But the British have a long tradition of operating alone politically. |
| 1:54.0 | And that's particularly easy after Napoleon had been defeated. |
| 2:00.0 | The British never faced any major challenger on the continent until the Unification of Germany in 1871. |
| 2:11.0 | So they had this idea of splendid isolation. |
| 2:15.0 | They have all kinds of slightly comic talk about how marvelous everything was. |
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