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The John Batchelor Show

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

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🗓️ 25 June 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/russia-ukraine-war/

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0:00.0

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0:05.1

to make it happen, and for me, the Met presented endless opportunities.

0:10.0

From joining as a PC at age 23, I went into a variety of roles, from emergency response

0:15.3

to public order policing. As a sergeant in the mounted branch, my dream job became reality.

0:21.6

Now I've been promoted to Inspector, I can't wait to see where my career takes me next.

0:25.9

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0:55.9

I'm not be prosecuted as a gangster, criminal, rebellious, petrayer, and his troops can travel

1:03.1

with him to Belarus, which is hundreds of miles from Rostovundan, which is under the control

1:11.0

of Lukashenko and his army, and the Russian army that stationed in Belarus. It was a staging

1:17.0

area for the early invasion of Ukraine. It's on the Polish border. Our Polish friends are

1:23.4

not amused. It's on the Lithuanian border. Our Lithuanian friends are not amused. And there,

1:31.0

once there, pregoation will, in some fashion, continue to talk to the media. Professor, the

1:38.0

mince point of view, I don't ask much, because there is no mince point of view. I understand.

1:44.1

This arrangement, if it wasn't that we're talking about men who have to kill each other in order

1:50.8

to be successful, it's farcical. I'm not sure it's farcical. It avoids a long and bloody struggle,

2:03.9

or potentially it might not be so long, but a struggle, say at Rostov or one of these other

2:12.0

points, which would really have no significance because the Ukrainians are moving in and harvesting

2:19.6

what pregoation has cut down, perhaps before it was ripe from the very spine and whatnot.

2:29.2

Belarus is a concept. Minsk is a, got been through Minsk, but I've never gotten off the train there,

2:37.7

but there's a very wonderful American expert on Turkish and everything else, polymath.

2:48.8

His grandfather was from Belarus, and as a child, my friend was sitting on the grandfather's lap,

2:56.6

and his grandfather described him the wonders of Minsk. It was kind of like, hello, dolly,

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