Mark Brzezinski, United States Ambassador to Poland. U.S. Embassy
PORTRAIT – The war that broke out a year ago in Ukraine has tightened ties between the two countries, says the US ambassador in Warsaw.
Special Envoy to Warsaw
For a year, not a day has passed, “not for a second”, without the United States Ambassador to Warsaw, Mark Brzezinski, 57, son of the famous American strategist Zbigniew Brzezinski, thinking of his grandfather and father. “I follow in their footsteps”«informed by the knowledge of the history of this region that they transmitted to me”he explains, recalling “how important it is in this part of Europe, where history in many aspects repeats itself, even if some dimensions are unique and new”.
“You have to understand that for the Poles it’s 1939 again!” he notes, speaking of a “Back to the future”, with the brutal imperial aggression of Russia. His grandfather Tadeusz was a diplomat like him, but in the service of Poland between the wars, which he first represented in Kharkiv, where he witnessed the deportation of part of the Ukrainian population, before being appointed, during the rise of Nazism, consul…
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