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#Ukraine: OMNIBUS POV: Moscow, Kyiv, Brussels, DC, Beijing, London: Professor H.J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 29 May 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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#Ukraine: OMNIBUS POV: Moscow, Kyiv, Brussels, DC, Beijing, London: Professor H.J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

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0:00.0

Elevate your summer nights

0:03.0

With all the indulgence of the new Magnum Double Star Chaser

0:08.0

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0:15.0

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0:30.0

This is the Friends Vista Debating Society, I'm John Bachelors

0:34.0

Moscow, Moscow's announcements to sending tactical nukes to Minsk is not entirely surprising, but then again it is

0:44.0

Because Moscow is dispatching nuclear weapons to a country without them

0:49.0

That's extraordinary, that's not something that happens routinely

0:53.0

At the same time Moscow is responding to the raid across the Ukraine border into Russia

1:00.0

At Belgorod by a group calling itself anti-Putin Russian patriots

1:08.0

They have many names for themselves

1:10.0

Both those incidents require attention by Professor H. J. McHunder in the National Relations

1:16.0

Six cities, six points of view, Moscow seems cluttered with events

1:21.0

Professor, very good even to you Belgorod and Nukes to Minsk

1:26.0

How do you see Moscow's point of view after a scattered week? Good evening to you

1:31.0

Good evening, well we have here really two rather distant corners of this single fabric of the Ukraine crisis, which is now spreading, I think, to engulf other states

1:48.0

Unless they are very careful in how they handle it

1:52.0

To me the Belgorod incident is the more immediately important because although everybody, or the Russians, I guess they're blaming NATO, they're blaming the Ukrainians, it doesn't really make sense to me that Ukraine or NATO would focus their attention on what are essentially

2:17.0

Tactical operations in a complex border region in the upper right hand corner across the way in Russia from Ukraine

2:30.0

But this morning the word was that there weren't just two of these Freikor, these sort of unaffiliated but armed militia, but they were three of them

2:43.0

And they seemed to be able, they haven't been caught, if they had been caught we wouldn't have seen them all lined up and executed on TV, that's what the Russians would have done, but they haven't been caught

2:55.0

And if they keep reproducing at this rate, I don't think they will, but I think with the fact that there are three today versus two yesterday

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