Biden Expected To Show for Glad-Handing as NATO Marks Its 75th Birthday Next Week at Washington

President Zelensky, though Ukraine is yet to become a member, will be there looking for weapons.

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NATO headquarters at Brussels. Via Wikimedia Commons

President Biden will be glad-handing and back-slapping next week in the kind of setting he likes best — a gathering of world leaders at which superficial displays of friendship and diplomacy should trump nasty politics. 

The occasion will be the 75th anniversary of the founding of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a conglomeration of 32 countries. Their leaders are converging on Washington next week to see how or if they can agree on the defense of Western Europe against Russia. 

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