very happy to have you here. So this is a story about us. It is a story about the United States.

It has always been a story about us. But in telling this story, what you quickly find is that there are stories from all over the place.

There's a bunch of stories from all over the world that keep unavoidable getting dragged into it,

whether we like it or not.

So even though this is about us,

you have to start, at least for a second here,

with Poland.

Just a few days ago, mayor of the capital city in Poland,

the largest city in that country.

He held a press conference.

He announced at the press conference

that the city of Warsaw will be setting aside tens of millions of

dollars in its new budget to build bomb shelters for people in that city.

Now, Poland is not currently at war.

The capital city of Poland is not getting bombed.

For them and for us, that's a good thing and an important thing because Poland is a member of NATO.

So if somebody was bombing Poland, if Polish citizens, Polish civilians needed to use bomb shelters in the capital city of that country,

that would be very bad news not just for Poland but for us as well.

Because Poland is our NATO ally, and if somebody was attacking them that would mean that we would soon be at war as well.

If you attack one NATO country you attack them all it is a treaty of mutual defense.

So our NATO ally in Poland scrambling right now to build

bomb shelters for civilians in their capital city, that is not great news.

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