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Because this one in the thought leadership world, in the creator world, is so hard.

And at first, folks, you all know that I speak Polish and lived in Poland.

And I first read this as Polish got cheap.

And I was like, what?

It was done to weaken the Soviet Union.

They knew that having a pope from Poland, which was a Soviet satellite state at the time, would... would reap untold benefits because it would distract the soviets and then at exactly the same time the solidarity movement took root in beginning in the gdansk shipyard in poland and so there was no downside for the west to john paul being pope if anything this was like a gift And the recognition of Israel, I remember how controversial that was at the time.

That was just like an extra added freebie that we got on top of everything that we got with the Soviets.

So yeah, I think that was the case.

So on the one hand, they had a public policy of opposing Hitler for many years, but then secretly they were also having compacts with him, because they wanted him to do that, Quigley says.

Quigley says they wanted him to go in, invade, go into Poland, go into these countries and start World War II, because that was the position that the Royal Society wanted.

And they had a secret treaty with him, which is admitted.

We're not saying Hitler's good, but the globalists set him up.

which is kind of a funny name.

But it is about a woman by the name of Becky, who is now a CIA field agent who goes undercover in Poland to infiltrate a family running an inn at the Wolf's Lair, one of Hitler's World War II bunkers.

When she learns the father, Wilhelm Raus, plans to spark the Fourth Reich, Becky must stop him.

So this movie is obviously an action film, but it's also a comedy.

You know, Michael, I've traveled many times in both Ukraine and Russia.

What is fascinating to me is Ukraine was under the, well, and many other European nations, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Romania, Hungary, In traveling in those countries, talking to their soldiers, to their government officials, they know what they went through during the time of the Warsaw Pact and the Soviet bloc of nations.

They knew that they were perceiving lies coming over the airways.

And it became almost a cultural dynamic that they knew that they couldn't counter it, they couldn't speak up against it, but they knew it was all bullshit.

You know, in the past conflicts, we've had a lot of reporters and journalists embedded with the soldiers who were fighting.

Right now, what we're unfortunately seeing is a lot of journalists and reporters in big cities reporting on how the population is being oppressed or killed.

From all of my feedback and all the intelligence I'm getting from friends in both Ukraine and especially Poland about what's happening, the Ukrainian forces, the army and their territorial defense forces, are absolutely kicking some ass.

They are doing a phenomenal job.

Yes.

Look at the constitutional crisis unfolding in Poland right now, as reported in Público.

We aren't just talking about a bitter debate in parliament.

We are talking about police physically occupying the constitutional court.

They are treating it as a massive referendum that could radically alter the institutional functioning of the United States.

But help me connect the dots here.

How do these high-level institutional gridlocks, you know, police storming courts in Poland or massive mid-mandate referendums in the US, reflect the exact same systemic stress we are seeing with the housing protests here in Portugal?

It all comes down to a crisis of legitimacy.

But the liturgical recurrence brought to mind one of the more vivid images of John Paul's many meetings with civil leaders.

In 1983, John Paul returned to Poland for the second time.

His homeland was under martial law, declared by Moscow's man in Warsaw, General Wojciech Jaruzelski.

When the two met at the presidential palace to exchange formal addresses, John Paul was somber and serene.

For forty years, 1911 to 1951, as Archbishop of Krakow, he witnessed more blood spilled than any bishop in the history of the Church.

Two world wars unfolded on his territory, which included Auschwitz.

While the influence of Poland's primate of the millennium, Blessed Stefan Wyszynski, on John Paul is widely known, it is Sapieha who had the greater formative impact.

George Weigel's biography, Witness to Hope, opens with dramatic scenes that marked Karol Wojtyła's young years in Kraków, Amongst them is included one of the great dinners in the thousand-year history of Poland.

He made that announcement today during a visit to Turkey.

And protests across Europe today, including in Poland, where a fight is underway over the country's constitutional tribunal.

People took to the streets to protest the suspension of the court's president.

The government has said the suspension is necessary to restore judicial independence Critics have compared it to a coup d'etat.

OK, enough with the names.

Keith in Poland says, Prime Minister Burnham and Chancellor Healey recently revealed their enjoyment of pub snacks.

Do you think that the American Secretary of War, Pete Hogsbreath, might have a worrying pork scratching habit? I've got no idea what that means.

Or what anything on this show so far has meant.