Back to in subject. So im glad to have a chance to talk about it. I wish it was in person again in kansas city. And i wish we were able to do this facetofaceba well do the best that we can. The key thing here that i want to return to is shown by this photograph here of churchill, truman and stalin smiling and shaking hands. And the point that i want really to reiterate here is these three men and most of the advisers around them did not believe what they were doing at potsdam was laying the seeds of a cold war. We know from the scholarship of the 1960s, 70s and beyond, a lot red potsdam backwards, as start of the cold war. But these three membn came to potsdam to celebrate the end of the war with germany, figure out what the post war world was going to look like and plan for the final victory over japan in the Pacific Theater. This photograph very much reflects the spirit of potsdam which ill talk about a little bit more in just a bit. Which was happy. Which was victorious. Which was j
It would soon be unleashed on the japanese cities of hiroshima and nagasaki. The Truman Library institute provided this video. We are at the 75th anniversary of the potsdam conference. Big numbers like a 75th anniversary or a 100th anniversary are always occasions for looking back and for drawing attention. I think theres another reason to look back at potsdam as we are in our own day and age reentering a world of Great Power Competition and reentering a world where geopolitics seems to have come back to the fore of international thinking and International Relations thinking. So its well worth us comiing back to this subject, so im especially glad to have a chance to talk to you about it. I wish it was in person, again, in kansas city. I wish that we were able to do this facetoface, but we will do the very best that we can. The key thing here that i want to return to throughout this presentation is shown by this photograph here of Winston Churchill, harry truman and josef stalin smilin
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Quits. It wants to leave the International Criminal court that prosecutes war criminals. The icc ordered south africa to arrest the wanted president of sudan last year and pretoria has resented it ever since. Anchor thanks very much for your company. Dead in the water. The ceta trade deal between the e. U. And canada seems to have sunk without a trace, as the Canadian International trade minister walks out of talks in brussels. All this after frantic efforts to persuade the belgian region of wallonia to reverse its opposition to the deal. , but it refused so the planned ratification by, e. U. Member states next week now looks unlikely. The e. U. s trade commissioner is perhaps whistling in the dark, saying she still hopes to find a solution. Reporter it was day two of the summit in brussels, where big european decisions are usually made among leaders of e. U. Member states. But this time is different, and it is as much about discord in the says much about discord in the e. U. When the