President Joe Biden enters Tuesday’s virtual summit with G-7 and EU leaders facing a wave of frustration from his closest allies and no easy solutions
friendly fist bumps and back slaps have been replaced by backbiting and thinly-veiled accusations of immorality and incompetence.
Leaders in Berlin, Paris, London and Brussels — initially dissatisfied by Washington’s lack of consultation over Washington’s decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan — are now appalled by missteps in the operation, which they believe has undercut the credibility of Western alliances. The ghosts of previous foreign policy debacles are haunting the summit: for the Biden administration, it’s comparisons to Saigon 1975 that officials can’t escape. For Boris Johnson’s U.K. government it’s theLondon might have been blindsided by the speed of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, but Boris Johnson is determined to play a leading role coordinating the international response — casting himself in a Churchillian light.
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