Biggest fight No. 1 — Kaja Kallas vs. Mike Waltz
That testy panel saw Kallas go toe-to-toe with Waltz on everything from Trump’s controversial Board of Peace for Gaza to Washington’s attitude toward its allies. “When, for example, Russia goes to war, they go alone because they don’t have allies; when America goes to wars, then, you know, a lot of us go with you, and we lose our people on the way,” she told Waltz as applause filled the room. “That means you also need us to be this superpower.”
She also lambasted Trump’s Board of Peace for its lopsided power structure, arguing it doesn’t treat countries as equals. “That is, I think, the difference [in] how we see the world,” she said, once again pointedly addressing Waltz.
In another eyebrow-raising moment, Waltz gifted the panel a blue baseball cap emblazoned with “Make the UN Great Again,” which Kallas took and set down without a word of thanks.
Biggest fight No. 2 — Radosław Sikorski vs. Petr Macinka
Poland’s Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski schooled Czech Deputy Prime Minister Petr Macinka on the workings of the European Union.
Macinka, who represents the populist Motorists’ Party, attacked the EU for not being democratic, alleging there are no connections between voters and Brussels institutions. Sikorski retorted that the European Parliament is democratically elected and that commissioners are chosen by “democratically elected governments.”
The killer blow came when Sikorski reminded Macinka that, much like EU commissioners, Czech ministers are also not directly elected. “I don’t say it isn’t a democratic system,” Macinka mumbled as an amused Hillary Clinton looked on.
