Hello and welcome to the G0 World podcast.

This is where you can find extended versions of my interviews on public television.

I'm coming to you from Washington, D.C., where some of America's closest allies convened for the annual NATO summit.

This year marks the 75th anniversary, who says that's old these days, of the North Atlantic

treaty organization's founding, the most successful and enduring security alliance in the modern

era. And it comes at a time of deep political uncertainty, both here in the United States and abroad.

With Biden's re-election hopes in freefall, European allies are confronting the prospect of

another Trump presidency.

And as the war in Ukraine drags on with no end in sight, that means European leaders face

supporting a costly and increasingly unpopular conflict against Russia without their most important

ally. Here to talk about all that and more is

Radak Sikorsky, Foreign Minister of Poland, one of those 32 NATO member states. Poland has become, in

many ways, the beating heart of Europe's and NATO's stand against Russia, taking in almost a million

Ukrainian refugees and sending critical weaponry and support to Ukraine's

front lines. Europe's sixth largest economy is also on track to build up the continent's largest

land army, and they harbor no illusions that Putin's imperial ambitions will stop at Ukraine's

borders. And after eight years of far-right isolationist rule in Poland,

Sikorsky's centrist pro-European party took the reins of power last fall.

We'll get into all that and much more.

Let's get to it.

The Foreign Minister Radak Sikorski, great to have you on the show.

My pleasure. Good morning.

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