fix the damage wrought by the rump!!

Joe Biden's first overseas trip as US President -- a whistle-stop diplomatic tour of Europe -- achieved its primary goal of signaling to America's closest friends that it was ready once moreto lead the Western alliance.

Yet, while European leaders were delighted to see a US President speaking about the values of multilateralism and Western stability, it's going to take a lot more than a week-long visit to fully repair the damage done by four years of erratic hostility under Biden's predecessor, Donald rump.

In a speech delivered at NATO headquarters in Brussels, the commander-in-chief of the world's most advanced army said, "We have to prove to the world and to our own people that democracy can still prevail against the challenges of our time and deliver for the needs of our people."

Pointing to Biden's five different engagements over the week -- meetings in the UK, the G7, meetings with the EU and NATO, then the summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin -- a second European diplomat said, "all of them carefully built on each other to send the same message: the US is back, the US is returning to the fold of democracies, and it's committed to leading them."




 

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