Welcome to another episode of Lurie Breaks It Down, a podcast where we dig deeply to connect the dots on the issues that shape our world.

I'm Lurie Daniel Favors, author, activist, attorney, and the host of the Lurie Daniel Favors show on Sirius XM's Urban View, Channel 126. If you like what you're about to hear, go ahead and give us five stars and then tell everybody that you know. And if you don't like it, just, child, keep it to yourself and pray our strength. Okay, thank you so much. Also, don't forget to check out my YouTube page, Lurie Daniel Favor's Media, where you should subscribe, like, and share, because then you'll get notified when I post videos from my show, which I do just about every single day and when I go live with my YouTube audience. Hello, beautiful podcast community. I hope everybody's doing well. Today is Thursday,

September 11th. So obviously we are in a bit of commemoration here in these United States,

because that remains the date where we experienced an attack in the United States soil proper,

meaning it wasn't an attack that a U.S. base experience somewhere else.

This was an attack that happened here on the homeland, as people are aware.

And 24 years later, that incident still reverberates.

And it frankly reminds us of the challenges, the extraordinarily problematic nature of living in a world where political violence

seems to be what people are leaning into to resolve their issues, to resolve their challenges,

their problems. And we've seen a lot of that. And if you've been watching the news at any point

over the past 24 to 36 hours, you've been bombarded with a lot of that. So let's get started outside of the

United States. And let's talk about what happened with Russia yesterday before we get into the more

local things looking. We're going to look at Missouri a little bit. We got to talk about what happened

with Charlie Kirk, of course. So lots to get into on this podcast episode. Now, the question we have

to ask ourselves is, did Russia just trigger war moves with Poland?

And you might be wondering, why to hell would we care if Russia triggers war moves with Poland?

And frankly, I would just say, friends, we should care whenever a nuclear power is triggering war moves.

But we should particularly care if they are triggering war moves with Poland because Poland is a part of NATO,

the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. And you know who else is a part of NATO? These United States,

one of the things that NATO has at its core is this agreement that if one of its members are

attacked, then all the other members are supposed to have that members back. So if the United States,

for example, were attacked, then the United States would be able to reach out to all of its

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