Biden’s Ukraine strategy is faltering ahead of the NATO summit

US President Joe Biden (left) and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the G7 summit in Hiroshima in May

The US President is being held back by the opposition, while politicians from his own party are demanding more support for Ukraine.

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Brussels, Washington “As long as necessary,” assures Joe Biden, the United States will stand by Ukraine. When he travels to the NATO summit in Vilnius this Tuesday and Wednesday, he will focus on America’s leadership role. The European partners “look to the United States and what we decide, what we do, how we move forward,” Biden said before his departure.

America is indispensable, people in Europe know that. “The transatlantic alliance is stronger than ever before,” said NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen and Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz formulate it practically identically.

And they know who they owe their cohesion to: Joe Biden. Under his predecessor Donald Trump, the United States would hardly have been willing to once again assume the role of Europe’s protecting power.

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