To his credit, President Joe Biden spent 25 minutes greeting Lithuanian citizens on arriving in the Eastern European nation on Monday.
Lithuania's capital, Vilnius, will host this year's NATO leaders summit on Tuesday and Wednesday. And while Ukraine's desire to enter the alliance will be top of the agenda, NATO's existing credibility is also of critical concern.PUTIN REINFORCES HIS DEEP VULNERABILITY VIA YEVGENY PRIGOZHIN MEETING
In essence, Lithuania represents everything that is right with NATO, and Spain represents everything that is wrong with NATO. When he's not acting like a European viceroy of China, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is still trying to figure out how to enact promised defense spending boosts . While France's Emmanuel Macron obsesses over his vision of European"strategic autonomy" , he only sent one aircraft to a recent NATO exercise simulating a Russian invasion of Western Europe . While France recently passed increases to defense spending, as with Germany, it is long overdue .
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