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S8 Ep1289: Londinium Chronicles — Multi-Part, Part Three: Gaius (John Batchelor) and Germanicus (Michael Vlahos) close with the death of dip
Londinium Chronicles — Multi-Part, Part Three: Gaius (John Batchelor) and Germanicus (Michael Vlahos) close with the death of diplomacy as a geopolitical tool. Gaius provides a detailed historical account of the Japanese surrender in 1945, noting that even firebombing and atomic weapons failed to move the military Big Six until the Emperorintervened with a secret recording, the imperial rescript. Germanicus argues that the United States is currently failing because it has abandoned diplomatic channels in favor of proxy wars and sanctions, which often backfire by existentially energizing the…
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