The Monica Perez. Hello everybody I am here with a returning guest and a very

wonderful person whom I really enjoy talking to and he's very smart so this is a treat for me hello parallel Mike.

Hey Monica how's it going?

Fine. Thank you. How are you and I guess it's six o'clock there you're in Poland I'm in LA so it's a little early for me but

It's a little teeny bit late for you. How's it going in Poland? Yeah, it's good it's good. uh, yeah, it's pretty quite over here, but we kind of live out in the countryside

so we don't get to see much of the politics or the city life.

So oftentimes people in America will call me up

and get in touch me saying, Mike, Mike, what's going on in Poland?

And I'm like, I have absolutely no idea.

You probably know more about Poland than I do at this time. But yeah, it's pretty quiet. I mean, we've got a lot going on with the war in Ukraine. So that's still, that's funny. That impacts Poland quite a lot because they are, I think there's a big influx of spending in

Poland right now in terms of renewing the military and that's going to be

like an ongoing European project. So yeah that's a little bit of this concept

and longer term. I just saw that you're up 4% GDP in military spending are close to it. I think Poland is like us in that, right?

I think you guys are really, really hammering down on that.

Yeah, it's just the UK, the US and Poland to actually achieve

their targets when it comes to the supposed minimum spend on military for NATO.

So it's only three countries and Poland's always been one of them.

So they're very strategically important for the US for sure.

I always I was one of the many many tells that Trump was just

whatever playing his role was when he was president and he and people this is the thing with the cult of personality people

will cheer for it even they'll try to find a reason to agree with somebody they have

a crush on then if just using their own

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