Isolationist Hypocrisy: Fico Courts Russia and Sells Ammo to Ukraine

An interview with Róbert Ondrejcsák 

15 May 2025

Wojciech Przybylski

Editor-in-Chief

Róbert Ondrejcsák offers a sharp assessment of shifting alliances, strategic confusion in Bratislava and what’s at stake for NATO unity.

In this conversation, Wojciech Przybylski speaks with Róbert Ondrejcsák – Executive Director of the European Leadership Network, former Slovak Ambassador to the UK and former Deputy Defence Minister of Slovakia – about the state of transatlantic relations, shifting security dynamics in Europe and the controversial foreign policy direction of Slovakia under Prime Minister Robert Fico.

From tensions over tariffs and military spending to strategic ambiguity towards Russia, the discussion explores how Europe is navigating uncertainty in its alliance with the United States and within its own ranks.

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Wojciech Przybylski

Editor-in-Chief

Political analyst heading Visegrad Insight's policy foresight on European affairs. His expertise includes foreign policy and political culture. Editor-in-Chief of Visegrad Insight and President of the Res Publica Foundation. Europe's Future Fellow at IWM - Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna and Erste Foundation. Wojciech also co-authored a book 'Understanding Central Europe’, Routledge 2017. He has been published in Foreign Policy, Politico Europe, Journal of Democracy, EUObserver, Project Syndicate, VoxEurop, Hospodarske noviny, Internazionale, Zeit, Dziennik Gazeta Prawna, Onet, Gazeta Wyborcza and regularly appears in BBC, Al Jazeera Europe, Euronews, TRT World, TVN24, TOK FM, Swedish Radio and others.

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