During his military service, Ihor “Batko” Zhaloba was not only fighting – he was also traveling on foreign missions and lecturing across Europe about the war. Now demobilized and back in academic life, he remains a tireless advocate for Ukraine on the continent, drawing on both his scholarly expertise and his firsthand experience of the front. In the second part of a conversation with Kyiv Post, he turns his attention outward: to Europe’s unpreparedness, NATO’s uncertain future, and what