It's the Ryan Lair Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. On today's show, we'll take

your temperature on this well-during day. On your evolving relationships with the tech

giants. Are you one of the hundred million people, we are given that number, hundred million

people who signed up for threads since it debuted last week. If so, what's it like for you?

And did you leave Twitter or just add on? Also a call in for this fake holiday known

as Amazon Prime Day on how you're cutting back on online shopping as the pandemic emergency

has eased. But let's start with World Affairs. Let's pick up where the BBC left off.

President Biden is at the NATO Summit in Vilnius, Lithuania today, as you've heard, as

one headline on Vox sarcastically put it. After all of that, Turkey will support Sweden's

NATO bid. But why do we care where Turkey thinks? Why are they in NATO? The North Atlantic

treaty organization is Turkey even in the North Atlantic? It also wants to be in the EU.

You can make a case that Turkey is geographically in Europe at least, with part of it on the

Balkan peninsula there in Southeast Europe. But why does Turkey want in when the talk

in England and some other places is about getting out? What does it mean in 2023 to be European?

And for that matter, who does it matter to whether the famously neutral Sweden is in NATO?

Are they going to be sending cluster bombs to Vladimir Zelensky? In any case, remember

when Donald Trump is president said NATO is obsolete? Apparently, it's not. And how much

is this meeting about Sweden and Turkey at all? Isn't it really about Russia and Ukraine?

U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan kind of made it sound like that when he spoke

in Vilnius yesterday?

Soon, we will be able to say that since this war began, since Russia invaded Ukraine,

we have welcomed two new members of NATO with strong militaries, expanding both the size

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