In three years leading U.S. Embassy Stockholm, Ambassador Erik Ramanathan P’27 saw enviable diplomatic wins. Persuading Sweden to send crucial arms to defend Ukraine despite longstanding pacifist prohibitions. Shepherding Sweden into NATO after 210 years of neutrality, buffeted by two years of concerted resistance. And guiding robust security and sustainability investments in the Arctic by a nation long focused on its Baltic south. Trust building in our transatlantic relationship was the essential stock-in-trade. That trust is now deeply imperiled. Has America abandoned Kyiv, empowering Russia’s westward imperialism? Was NATO expansion a waste of Nordic resources when anchor ally America threatens its integrity? Why collaborate on High North military operations, just to have that experience weaponized against Greenland? Ambassador Ramanathan will explore how the lens of his diplomatic journey informs existential questions about what lies ahead not only for the Nordics, but for the international order we have long championed together.