In this installment of Best Of The Gist, we return to March 2017 to listen back to Mike's interview with The Atlantic staff writer and U.S. Naval War College emeritus professor Tom Nichols, in which they tried to understand why Russia finds NATO so deeply offensive. Then, we replay Mike's show opener from this past Tuesday, when he wondered about NATO … and Sweden … and nazis.

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