what the polish government hopes, this will be a way for the president to make a strong and powerful statement, in effect showing he s helping this effort to sort of counter russia on energy security among other things in this region. and what s particularly striking though obviously is what the message is to western europe. this is taking place here what s called the three cs initiative summit with a lot of about 12 central and eastern european nations which are viewed by western european countries, a lot of those strong eu countries like germany, to send an anti-immigrant, anti-eu message. there s a real concern about that. obviously president trump was strongly in favor of the uk and brexit. they fear some of the western european countries that this is an effort in a way to reshift or shift the balance of power in the region as well. peter, let me read you something from the new york times and talk about it on the other side. new york times this morning reporting there s a q