Warsaw's Man in Washington on European Security and Poland's Defense Buildup

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🗓️ 11 March 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Ryan visited Ambassador Marek Magierowski at the Polish Embassy in Washington. They spoke about Poland's military build-up and the challenges posed by Russia's ongoing war against Ukraine. Much of their conversation focused on defense industrial issues, which sit at the heart of NATO's most difficult hurdles.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the War in the Rocks podcast on strategy, defense, and foreign affairs.
0:15.7	My name is Ryan Evans, I'm the founder of War in the Rocks, and in this episode I spoke with Ambassador
0:20.9	Merrick Magyevsky, the Polish Ambassador to the United States, who was kind
0:26.0	enough to host me at the embassy for an extended conversation on the Polish Defence Build-Up
0:30.9	and European Security Affairs.
0:32.4	Mr. Ambassador, thank you so much for... build up in European security affairs.
0:33.0	Mr. Ambassador, thank you so much for joining us today.
0:36.0	My pleasure, thank you.
0:37.0	Could you tell me a little bit about yourself,
0:39.0	you know, you've sort of had a circuitous route to becoming a diplomat.
0:42.8	I've been here in Washington, D.C. for roughly a year and a half.
0:47.2	My mission began in November 2021.
0:50.7	Just after the pandemic, which is an important element of this story.
0:54.0	Previously I was the Polish ambassador to Israel for three years between 18 and 21.
0:59.0	And in my previous Incan nation I was also Deputy Foreign Minister and a spokesperson of the
1:05.2	Polish President, the toughest job in my life, in particular because I had been a journalist for
1:10.5	20 years.
1:11.5	And why did you decide to leave journalism?
1:14.0	Well, actually, this is the saddest part of this introduction.
1:18.0	It was in 2015 when I got very lucrative and very attractive offer from the presidential
1:24.7	chancery to become the media advisor of President Duda who is going to visit
1:29.5	the sea shortly by the way and my impression was and it was a period in which I already knew
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