Anniversary of the potsdam conference. Big numbers like the 75th anniversary or 100th anniversary are always occasions for looking back and drawing attention. I think there is another reason to look back at potsdam, as we are reentering a world of Great Power Competition and reentering a world where geopolitics seems to have come back to the fore of International Relations thinking. So it is well worth us coming back to this subject. I am 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 reiterate throughout this presentation is shown by this photograph here of Winston Churchill, harry truman, and Joseph Stalin smiling and shaking hands. And the point that i really want to reiterate here is that these three men and most of the advisors around them did not believe that what they were doing at potsdam was laying the seeds o
I think there is another reason to look back at potsdam, as we are reentering a world of Great Power Competition and reentering a world where geopolitics seems to have come back to the fore of International Relations thinking. So it is well worth us coming back to this subject. I am glad to have a chance to talk to you about it. I wish it was in person 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 Joseph Stalin smiling and shaking hands. And the point that i really want to reiterate here is that these three men and most of the advisors around them did not believe that what they were doing at potsdam was laying the seeds of a cold war. We know from the scholarship of the 1960s, 1970s, and beyond, a lot of historians read potsdam backwards. That is to say they read it as a start of the
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In a german Meat Processing plant are to blame for 15000 confirmed cocoronavis c cases. And parts s of india and bangladesh fight to get back on their feet in the wake of a devastating storm. A momonth after the cyclone, communities are facing a long road to recovery. I am phil gayle. Welcome to the program. The United States top Infectious Disease expert says the country is facing a serious problem as covid19 infections surge in southern and western states. Many states are experiencing their highest infection rate since the crisis began. Worst affected our Southern States l like florida, texas, ad arizona, along with california, texas ordered all bars to close while florida bandits bars from selling alcohol. Today, the u. S. Coronavirus task force held its first price conference published press conference in two months. The Vice President encouraged citizens to follow guidelines. We believe we had made progress. We are reminded as we see cases rising across the south that we still hav
And 5g. A call between Boris Johnson and eu officials and is with the Prime Minister saying he sees no reason a brexit deal cant be reached by july. The eu councile president reiterates a level Playing Field is essential. 6 00 a. M. In london. Buying backe bond stock has been delivered. I like what john says on bloomberg. It reminds me of my mother. You will rue the day you executed this in the market to buy these individual bonds. There was ar, discussion. Essentially, the bond buying creates this real body of support to the equity market, going deeper into the capital structure, you extrapolate forward. This is the boost to equities. Do you think i will rue the day i said this . Nejra do you know what . I love that word. It is one of my favorites in the english dictionary. I noticed that in the journalistic column. Im glad we are on the same page. It is really interesting, because what we heard from the fed, the list given to markets, what it does is show that perhaps any concerns th