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    Beset at home, can Biden in Europe renew faith in US leadership?

    by Howard LaFranchi Jun 28, 2022 5 minutes

    American leadership in a Europe confronting Russia’s aggression in Ukraine has been a rare triumph in Joe Biden’s presidency.

    His stand for the rules-based U.S.-led international order that has reigned since World War II – and for the democratic values underpinning the transatlantic alliance for seven decades – steeled the spine of European allies and reinvigorated the NATO defense alliance.

    Now with President Biden in Europe this week – first for a G-7 summit in Germany that ended today, and then a NATO summit in Madrid beginning Wednesday – the question for some is whether the global stage again affords him the opportunity to burnish his leadership skills.

    For many, the context is more complicated now compared with the naked challenge Mr. Biden originally faced: the stark unacceptability of Russia’s

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