Today's D Brief: Biden at NATO HQ; Israel’s new PM; Vaccine diplomacy; F-22's in the danger zone; And a bit more.
By Ben Watson
June 14, 2021
The D Brief
U.S. President Joe Biden and his defense secretary are at NATO HQs in Brussels today, the second of three destinations before ending his first trip abroad since taking office in January. “NATO is critically important for U.S. interests in and of itself,” Biden said in a press conference Monday while standing beside NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg. “If there weren’t one, we’d have to invent one. It allows America to — to conduct its business around the world in a way that never would have occurred were it not for NATO.”
Also on Biden’s agenda today: Meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Politico previews that one, here.
What sort of changes are ahead for NATO? A formal “Cyber Defense Policy” intended to combat “disruptive ransomware attacks against critical infrastructure”; a “Defense Innovation Accelerator” will also be introduced this year, according to a White House statement Sunday.
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