Imagine what our neighbors would think in 10 years from now, what kind of army is growing in the center of Europe in Germany.

Hi, I'm Ian Brimmer, and welcome to the GZero World podcast.

It's an audio version of what you can find on public television, where I analyze global topics,

sit down with big guests, and make use of small furry puppets.

This week, I sit down with Sigmar Gabriel.

He's the former vice chancellor and foreign minister of Germany and is an outspoken member of the Bundestag.

It's like the US House of Representatives with a two-bier minimum.

Let's get to it.

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Hear directly from First Republic's clients by visiting first republic.com. I'm glad to be here today with Sigmar Gabriel, the former foreign minister as well as

Vice-Chancellor of Germany.

Sir, thanks so much.

Thanks for inviting me.

So you were there when the wall came down.

Now walls are coming back up.

How does it feel to be a German today?

To be honest, I grew up directly at the border to East Germany, at the fence directly there.

I never felt insecure.

I always had a very feeling of a, to live in a very secure and safe country

because we knew that there was NATO, there was the European Union, there were the US.

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