Biden, fragile at home, faces historic leadership task in Europe

WASHINGTON, 24 June 2022, (TON): Leader of the free world sounds like a superhero character, but the Joe Biden heading this week to twin European summits is in reality a politically fragile president tasked, somehow, with resolving an unenviable string of diplomatic problems.

Biden arrives in Germany for the G7 summit of major Western powers, followed next week by the NATO military alliance summit in Madrid.

Both sessions will take place in the shadow of Russia’s Ukraine invasion, but also a global surge in inflation, fears of recession, and the ever-growing challenge of containing China while avoiding open conflict.

According to a senior US official “for sure, Biden will tout the success of a monumental effort to rally the West and breathe new life into NATO a high water mark in transatlantic solidarity in the post-Cold War period.”

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