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The flags of Lithuania and NATO at the annual NATO Summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, on Monday, July 10, 2023.
Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/BloombergAnna Edgerton
This is Washington Edition, the newsletter about money, power and politics in the nation’s capital. Today, national-security reporter Anna Edgerton looks at the evolving views of NATO among Republicans as President Joe Biden heads into a summit of the alliance. Sign up here and follow us at @bpolitics. Email our editors
NATO leaders will gather in Lithuania this week to discuss the morality of cluster bombs, Sweden's candidacy and whether Ukraine should eventually join. There's one big question that won't come up, but will still be in the background of everything that happens: Can they rely on the US long term?
