Opinion: NATO Leaders Care About One Thing: Can Biden Beat Trump?

As NATO’s leaders and their teams mix in the corridors and cocktail parties surrounding their 75th anniversary summit in Washington, DC. this week, their apprehension is palpable.

But it is not the prospect of further aggression by Vladimir Putin that is dominating their public and not-so-public expressions of concern—even though he is never far from their thoughts. It is not their inability to resolve internal debates over how much license they should give Ukraine’s military to use NATO contributed weapons to strike deep within Russia—even though it is clear such license is as essential as it is elusive.

It is not the fact that one of the heads of a NATO member state, Viktor Orbán, spent the last few days hobnobbing with Putin and later with Xi Jingping that has them ill at ease—although Orbán is a wildcard who could upset many of the plans of the consensus-driven alliance.

Read more at The Daily Beast.