Biden will address Europeans directly for the first time since taking office with a keynote scheduled for Friday at the Munich Security Conference. He’ll have a lot of convincing to do.
The virtual appearance will be a homecoming of sorts for Biden, who for decades has been a regular at the annual affair — the Western security wonk’s answer to the World Economic Forum in Davos.
“I promise you … We’ll be back. We’ll be back,” Biden famously told the conference two years ago, speaking after then-Vice President Mike Pence.
Biden may have proved his skeptics wrong, but the doubts remain. The biggest fear is that Trump too will be back.
“Who’s to say we won’t end up right where we were four years from now?” asked one senior German defense official.
