Ukraine. Its an ancient and proud land. With a rich history filled with much beauty heroism and sacrifice. Ukraine is a border land. A place where east meets west. This is the flag of ukraine the blue represents the sky the gold its seemingly endless fields of wheat. Ukraine is a prize many have sought. And much blood spilled in the quest to possess it. Ukraine has been the pathway for western powers as they attempted to conquer the east. In world war one. And world war 2. And every time the ukrainian people ended up paying the highest price for these grand games of power. History doesnt repeat but it surely rhymes said mark twain. If one looks closely at the history of ukraine one will notice many rhymes. Being surrounded by stronger powers ukraine has needed a lot of cunning to survive and they are they truly mastered with time is the art of changing sides. In the middle of the 17th century ukrainian leader dunn who. Broke a truce agreement made with poland siding more powerful russi
Roosevelt house presentation. During this particular dramatic period in history, it is especially troubling that we can together at our Historic House on 65th street to process events together in the tradition of Civic Engagement and civil discussion. In fact displayed in the auditorium where we would have done this meeting, the images on the wall about the audiences feature photographs from the very conference at the heart of tonights conversation, arguably the most important, perhaps the most consequential in world history. But of course i am pleased we can continue online with programs that span past and present from discussions and currenincurrent Public Policy to considerations of the history that shows shape the circumstances of the present day. I want to thank you that have responded. As we plan on a Spring Semester of programming online, we would be very grateful to your continued generous support and i would urge you to have a look at the messaging. Returning to tonights progr
Prodemocracy lol. Mike has resigned on mass for they called exists act under a new Chinese National security lol. Germany meanwhile has criticized by jean, accusing it of undermining freedom in hong kong. American held welcome. The European Commission has signed the deal to secure up to 300000000 doses of a coded 19 vaccine developed by germanys beyond tech and us pharmaceutical giant pfizer. A vaccine is seen as the best chance to break the chain of coded 19 infection beyond take says it could start shipping the vaccine to a new countries. By the end of the year. The e. U. Health commissioner says the us sitting up a healthy union to improve the response and coordination of Member States in future Health Crises or to talk some more about the critical issue of global distribution. Were joined now by Rigel Silverman in miami. Shes, a policy fellow at the center for Global Development in washington. D. C. , thanks to you just published an article titled vaccine breakthrough to refute new
Amid growing fears that the conflict there could escalate. Further. Central government is accusing Regional Forces of firing rockets into the neighboring amara region. Fighting began last week after this of a, by the forces attacked National Military bases. Austrian chancellor sebastian kurtz, has announced a 3 week lockdown to stem, a sharp rise in to run a virus infections that is set to begin on shoes day. The country hit a record 9600 infections on friday. Austria hopes its latest measures will ease the stress on its health care system. This is day to billy news from berlin. You can follow us on twitter and instagram at de deadly news, or visit our website to be found at d. W e dot com this week on world story. Beijing, joe biden causes a boom for a noodle bar. Berlin, bidding farewell to take the airport. But we start in finland at the capitals airport in tel sinking dogs are helping to detect coronavirus and infected people. The dogs can accurately snip out the virus as early as
For you are the one in trouble now. And he was. It seems safe to say that few people if any have come to the presidency of the United States who seem so unqualified for that job, as harry truman did in april of 1945. When he became president , no one knew anything about him. What they did know was not reassuring. It was made worse by the fact that he followed one of the legendary president s in all of American History, frank lindy roosevelt. Income franklin d roosevelt. In contrast to this little man for missouri seemed ordinary, even as appearance. Harken back to the days of an earlier president ial misfit, Warren Harding. At least Warren Harding look like a president. Truman set i look like any other 50 people you meet industry, and he did. He seemed to be hard to caricature, he had no particular distinctive features, sort of generic person. Even his name, by the way, seemed inadequate. Harry s. Trumanto know the s stood for . Nothing. He simply added the s because he thought his giv