But, overall, it’s a fight between the ruling, foreign elites of the West, as represented by Washington, NATO, and little Zelensky, and the rest of the people of the planet, as popularly championed at this moment, by Russia and China. As for the exact nature of the overall hostility and its starting point in time, that is something for future historians to call. And it has been in progress for some time. Even the intelligent players and close observers, intelligent meaning those outside the United States, openly admit the global nature of the ongoing conflict. Tom Ironsides : Yes, absolutely, this is World War Three. Is that your characterization? And, if so, please give my audience your brief thoughts on the current front or fronts, along with any fronts you expect to open in the reasonably near future. Some analysts, myself included, consider the third world war already in progress. PL : In honor of your career, or careers, I thought we might begin with world affairs, and then work our way towards education. And aren’t you forgetting to plug the book? Exactly how I wanted to spend a work morning. Perrin Lovett : Tom, it’s good to see you again. He reminds one and all he scored that game-winning touchdown for UVA, nigh on forty years ago. He resides in Blowing Rock with his wife, semi-retired television actress Carmyn Larke. Before his academic career, he retired from a joint career, “sheep-dipped”, as he calls it, in the USMC, where he rose to the rank of Colonel, and the CIA, where he served as a Paramilitary Operations Officer and, ultimately, Acting Deputy Director of the National Clandestine Service, Special Activities Division, primarily in charge of the Special Operations Group. Over the past decade, he has held teaching or lecturing positions at Harvard, the American University of Paris, Matej Bel University in Slovakia, and one low-end, suburban US public “school” system. in classics from Harvard and three Master’s degrees in classics, philosophy, and international affairs (the University of Virginia and Georgetown University). Fluent in five languages, and moderately proficient in several others, he holds a Ph.D. There, he is also Head of the American Classical Education Center (aka, the “Ironsides Center”), a trivium homeschool supportive research initiative. Thomas Ironsides, “Tom” as he’s known to friends, is a classics professor at Saint Thomas of Aquino College in Blowing Rock, NC. In scenic Cherokee, over a late breakfast at Peter’s Pancakes and Waffles, I piqued the mind of the man who has seen and done it all. Some Baritones singing the tune all the way through will give the performance a more authentic “Shanty” sound. *Author-Interviewer’s Note: For an exciting change this week, I drove up to North Carolina for a sit down with America’s foremost authority on geostrategic issues and Roman comparative analysis. This arrangement has elements of both versions but has a few extra ideas to give choirs more scope. In early 2021 a Tiktok version by Nathan Evans went viral and this also propelled the Longest Johns’ version up the charts. It is likely the men on deck were not paid proper wages hence the desire to go once the “tounguin’ is done” (the cutting of strips of blubber ready for oil extraction). The song tells of the struggle on board with a whale that tows them for 40 days, while the Wellerman visits occasionally bringing their wages of luxuries to encourage them in the chase. The English born Weller brothers, Joseph, Edward and George had moved to Sydney in 1839 and went on to found a whaling station near what is now Dunedin in the South Island of New Zealand. “Wellerman” or “Soon may the Wellerman come” to give it its full title, is a whaling song originating in the mid to late 19th Century in New Zealand.
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