Trump’s possible return looms over deals Biden cut at G7 summit

BARI, Italy — For all the ambitious plans that President Joe Biden and his counterparts unfurled at the summit meeting that ended Saturday, the cold reality is that many of the leaders may not remain in office long enough to see them ripen.

BARI, Italy — For all the ambitious plans that President Joe Biden and his counterparts unfurled at the summit meeting that ended Saturday, the cold reality is that many of the leaders may not remain in office long enough to see them ripen.

A populist, far-right movement rippling through Europe and the U.S. threatens to unseat Biden and some of his closest allies, jeopardizing the deals on Ukraine’s defense forged over the past few days.

From left, Charles Michel, Olaf Scholz, Justin Trudeau, Emmanuel Macron, Giorgia Meloni, Joe Biden, Fumio Kishida, Rishi Sunak and Ursula von der Leyen at the G7 on June 13 in Borgo Egnazia, Italy.Alex Brandon / APThe traditional “family photo” taken at the Group of Seven (G7) summit of the wealthiest democracies largely portrays an embattled set of world leaders who’ve fallen out of step with some of their constituents. Successors would be free to take much of what they produced in southern Italy and tear it up if they saw fit.

According to April polling from NBC News, Biden’s approval rating stands in the low 40s and he’s running about even with former President Donald Trump. If he is defeated in November, Ukraine will lose its most valuable partner in keeping Russian President Vladimir Putin from overrunning the country.

Emmanuel Macron, France’s centrist president, recently called snap elections, giving rise to the prospect of the far right gaining control of France’s legislature and forcing him into a power-sharing arrangement.

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