NATO allies decided to craft Russia strategy with next US president

As the 75th anniversary summit of NATO leaders approached, President Joe Biden and other alliance heads took a calculated risk: the allies would develop a strategy to contain threats from Russia — but not this year.

“Because of the elections in the United States…The strategy was to avoid any kind of controversy during the summit, and that would be a success to the Biden administration,” a senior Central European official told the Washington Examiner on the sidelines of the summit. “And that’s why we have the NATO summit that we have — with the decisions that have been made, and the decisions that have been postponed — to avoid controversy.”