#Ukraine: Shooting the #PRC balloon. Professor H.J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety
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🗓️ 5 February 2023
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#Ukraine: Shooting the #PRC balloon. Professor H.J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety
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| 0:30.6 | This is the Friends Vista Debating Society. I'm John Batcha with Professor H.J. McHinder |
| 0:34.5 | coming on six capital six points of view in Ukraine. |
| 0:37.6 | Conflict. Professor the news of these last days in addition to no F-16s for Ukraine, |
| 0:45.3 | not now. Is a balloon, a surveillance balloon that may or may not be the first one launched |
| 0:52.6 | by China floating over the Aleutian Islands over Canada, over Western United States, crossing |
| 0:59.4 | the United States, and now we're told, shot down by an act of violence by the United States |
| 1:06.2 | at order of the President of the United States off the Carolina coast. |
| 1:10.7 | What does this mean for Ukraine conflict? Knowing that Beijing launched a balloon says |
| 1:16.2 | that it was a weather balloon, and yet at the same time Beijing has closely linked with |
| 1:21.4 | Xi Jinping headed to Moscow, closely linked with the Russian War effort. |
| 1:26.7 | Well, we have to ask how much Beijing really wants to join the Russian War effort. I think |
| 1:35.1 | that Xi Jinping would like to. He's a very belligerent person who has very little understanding |
| 1:41.5 | of geopolitics. The real problem that China faces now is that they're broke. They don't |
| 1:47.6 | have any money. They're not paying people. They're not even paying communist officials. |
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