Hello, everybody. It's Michael Tracy. I am here in the Netherlands for the annual NATO summit. That's right.

I, Michael Tracy, was admitted to attend and cover this year's annual NATO summit in the Hague of all places.

After having been rejected from attending last year

when the NATO summit was held in my home country of the United States, namely in Washington,

D.C. They didn't let me into that one. They didn't let me into the one the year prior,

which was in Lithuania. They did let me into the one the year prior to that, which was in Spain. So who

knows exactly what the calculus is here. There's maybe some inside baseball that explains some

of it that I'll share at a later date. But for now, I wanted to give you a couple of highlights of my initial forays into this

year's NATO summit.

As I record this, I'm about to head out for the second day of the festivities, which includes the big, like, parliamentary style meeting of all the

NATO member states.

Trump is here.

He were told I'm not sure if this is true, but it's amusing.

Regardless, supposedly he slept overnight at the King's residence or something.

Well, don't, don't hold me to that one.

But, yeah, there's a lot going on today, so I'll be heading out.

But I wanted to give a couple of highlights of the first day.

And so obviously one of the big topics on everybody's mind,

understandably enough is the fact that the U.S. just bombed Iran that Israel launched a

preemptive strike, as they called it, on June 12th with the U.S. aiding and abetting,

Israel as usual, with overwhelming levels of coordination and intelligence and

arm supplies. And then as we all know, that culminated in Trump bombing Iran over the weekend.

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