By Athena Papakosta

It has been 13 days since the Biden-Trump teleconference in Atlanta, during which the president of the United States appeared to be slowly and excruciatingly collapsing on stage.

Since then the American president he has again confused his words even going so far as to “forget” even who he is by calling himself “the country’s first black female vice president».

Insisting on remaining in the race for the presidency of the United States, Joe Biden is struggling to survive politically and to convince himself that he is capable of running for a second term, while both at home and abroad his overall image is under scrutiny.

Already its Synod NATOin progress in Washington, has turned into a public check-up of his health and mental state.

In fact, the American network CNN, touching on the matter, does not hesitate to stand by the fact that while the Alliance is celebrating its 75th anniversary, Joe Biden is older by six years, underlining, in this regard, that “a president who is older than the Alliance itself will be under enormous pressure to prove that it has both the fortitude and the mental clarity’ to manage to give ‘a stand-alone press conference on Thursday’.

Needless to say, any time he appears disoriented or weak will ignite the already existing panic inside and outside the Democratic party, forcing him to lay down his arms and accept that he is now too old to run for the toughest job in the Democratic Party. planet.

Anxiety about Biden’s health has also been conveyed to the leaders of the 32 NATO countries who are in Washington and hope to see, up close, that there is no cause for concern.

After all, balances are fragile. The NATO Summit is crucial as it is being held in a climate of political uncertainty with all war fronts remaining open and its most powerful members, such as France and Germany, facing internal political problems.

At the same time, Donald Trump’s return to the White House is also causing concern. The former president of the United States leads in most opinion polls and scares the allies of the United States with his statements. On the one hand, he declares that he will end the war in Ukraine within 24 hours, and on the other hand, he has already made it clear that aid to NATO members who do not increase their defense spending to 2% of their GDP will end.

So it is easy to see why NATO leaders want Joe Biden to pass the test and save himself. But if he does not succeed then the credibility of the United States will receive a significant blow.