b. polonsky, i think the essence of my speech at tet was to explain to people who have never been in combat how quickly wars come to some countries and how quickly a country can fall apart. i think it is extremely difficult for people to understand, say in the united states or in some parts of europe . foreign invasion of the country they have never experienced a full-scale war so i tried to explain how wars happen and how they destroy the structure of society how banks suddenly close there is not enough food, and in some places where the cities are under siege, there is also not enough water, and people are already being sent to fight, almost every family loses someone, in fact, this conversation was about losses and the fact that war always brings a sense of great losses. how did you manage to effectively immerse yourself in the local context if the country to which you are going to cover the events is far away. the culture is unfamiliar to you here, the civilians suffer the most from the war, so i think i always wanted to write about people far from political vicissitudes from the negoti