You again and welcome you here to the park. I was remarking a few minutes ago, much like it was for the soldiers 150 years ago who were in the oberlin campaign that started in 1864, it has been a long road to petersburg. We started this 150th event for 3, atparks on may spotsylvania courthouse. We have moved south ever since. T has been quite a feat it is the first time three parks within a process of these commemorations have shared programming where we have tried to make a continual program of the oberlin campaign rather than look at it as the wilderness, spill something you spotsylvania, that this was one continual process for the soldiers 150 years ago. For some of you in the audience we have senior faces before. We know you have been on the road with us, and we appreciate that. [applause] this morning i would like to introduce to you the superintendent of Petersburg National battlefield, lewis rogers. In 1984,an his career a park ranger. He took his first herman it position at tho
Stay and answer additional questions or whatever you want to talk about. The life in the whit war of 18t for two and a half years. We dont call world war ii the war of 1941 to we dont call the civil war the world 1861 but we call it the war of 1812. Folks that support it and feel it was a positive thing called americas second war for independence. I think it was that. Its detractors call it an unnecessary war come and they think it was unnecessary. Thankfully we havent had an unnecessary war since then, right . [laughter] i call it the unknown war because no one does anything about it. My favorite president harry truman was characteristically blunt on the war of 1812 treaty, he called it the silliest damn war we ever fought. And they think it was that, too. It was a war that had we won, candidate would have been a state. And possibly we would have had a huge slave colony in mexico, maybe even cuba. Had we lost the war of 1812, we wouldve become once again a colony of britain. But after
Instead of to be living in this kind of hermeticallysealed distaupe ya which will be by 2020 surrounded by walls on all sides in which an adviser to netanyahu has proposed seawalls to keep out climate refugees in which the United States government has offered 200 million to provide an iron wall that coats the sky of israel with missiles. This is the reality that theyre in, and there should be a nonviolent means that all of you can participate in to get them out of it and also to get the people in the gaza strip, according to the u. N. The gaza strip will be uninhabitable by 2020, to get them out of their crisis. That should be the priority. And so, obviously, i favor the latter means which is, i think, humane and moral and also based in international law. [applause] well, on behalf of the committee, i want to to thank max, of course, and also a thank the public for coming. And we hope to continue this series of discussions on these and other topics. Yeah. And as max delicately suggeste
With hello and welcome to this weeks to the point. Im have you know, yes, and im very glad to join the to the point Team Starting to date. Now what i love about the show is that im never alone. Ill always be joined by distinguished guests. Lets see. Todays line up. Its Alexandra Phillip panko. She is a russian analyst working for the institute for the us. And canada studies currently based in vilnius with wayne young folk of axle is an editor for the monthly magazine. Aust, i hope are here in berlin, focusing on issues in Eastern Europe and woman gone, chatting go as my dw colleague from ukraine, normally working in boston for our russian service. Im glad to welcome here. Welcome him here personally in the studio in berlin to all 3 of you. Thank you very much for joining us and welcome to this weeks show. Now id like to start by assessing the recent developments in ukraine, especially those masses attacks that we saw on monday. Ukrainians of course, have been dealing with russian showi
The bridge between annexed crimea and the russian mainland. Meanwhile, hootons threat of Nuclear Weapons continues to loom on to the point we ask Russian Missile attacks on ukraine. How far will the kremlin go . With hello and welcome to this weeks to the point time of year gas. And im very glad to join the to the point Team Starting today. And what i love about the show is that im never alone. Ill always be joined by distinguished guests. Lets see todays line up. Its Alexandra Phillip panko. She is a russian analyst working for the institute for the us and canada studies currently based in vilnius with wayne young folk of ike ssl is an editor for the monthly magazine. Aust, oil par here in berlin. Focusing on issues in Eastern Europe and woman gunshot and go as my dw colleague from ukraine, normally working in bon for our russian service. Im glad to welcome here. Welcome him here personally in the studio and relate to all 3 of you. Thank you very much for joining us and welcome to thi