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BRUSSELS — U.S. President Joe Biden and his NATO counterparts will bid a symbolic farewell to Afghanistan on Monday in their last summit before America winds up its longest “forever war” and the U.S. military pulls out for good.

The meeting is bound to renew questions about whether NATO’s most ambitious operation ever was worth it.

President Joe Biden and his NATO counterparts on Monday will hold their last summit before America winds up its longest

BRUSSELS (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden and his NATO counterparts will bid a symbolic...

BRUSSELS (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden and his NATO counterparts will bid a symbolic farewell to Afghanistan on Monday in their last summit before America winds up its longest “forever war” and the U.S. military pulls out for good.

Forever War cost the United States alone USD 2.26 trillion, and the price in lives includes 2,442 American troops and 1,144 personnel among US allies, according to figures from Brown University.

Bruised by its interactions with the previous U.S. administration, the EU is leery of fully hitching its wagon to Biden’s geopolitical agenda. But Europe should focus on the bigger picture.

June 8, 2021 Caleb Diamond: Thank you, Operator. And welcome, colleagues. We have a great briefing today on Biden’s first overseas trip, the upcoming G-7/NATO summits, and the bilateral meetings on the sidelines. So we’ll get right to it, but first I do want to introduce our speakers. So we have with us today Matt Goodman – he’s the CSIS senior vice president for economics; Rachel Ellehuus, our deputy director and senior fellow with the CSIS Europe Program; Heather Conley, senior vice p...

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Two major foreign policy developments worth highlighting at the traditional presidential milestone measuring stick — the decision to fully withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan and the effort to solidify U.S.-Japan-Australia-India “Quad” cooperation against China — build on policies Mr. Trump pushed vigorously in the four years leading up to Mr. Biden’s arrival in the White House. But the Biden administration’s supporters, including a Atlanticist foreign policy establishment largely...