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The problem especially in the Baltics and in Poland is you have countries that have a very nasty historical habit of poofing in and out of existence. We've got a special episode coming up next week. It's time to go out with a web

presentation that's running a little bit behind. So this week we're re-releasing one of our most popular

shows. NATO came up again and again during the just concluded presidential campaign, and a little while ago we talked about just

how strong the alliance now is we also looked at how well it matches up against Russia

spoiler alert if you live in the Baltics, you could be in trouble if war ever comes.

You're listening to Reuters War College, a discussion of the world in conflict, focusing

on the stories behind the front lines.

Here are your hosts, Jason Fields, and Matthew Galt.

Hello and welcome to War College.

I'm Reuters opinion editor, Jason Fields.

And I'm Matthew Galt, contributing editor with War is Boring. Today we're talking

about NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and what kind of shape it's currently in with Joe Trevithic.

Joe is with war is boring and it's been covering security issues

for quite a while.

Joe, thanks for joining us.

Happy to be here.

So I want to start off with a new report just came out from Rand, the Rand Organization, looking at sort of playing the scenario Russia versus NATO.

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