Media Talks About Cicada Hotspots And Discusses People Eating Bugs

 https://nationalfile.com/mainstream-media-talks-about-cicada-hotspots-and-discusses-people-eating-bugs/

The mainstream media is determined to continue bringing up the concept of eating cicadas for protein, as they also predictive-program a massive cicada presence in our country this spring.

The mainstream corporate media has been horrifyingly pitching the idea of “snacking” on cicadas as the globalists try to prepare the human people for food and other supply shortages. A Maryland television “news” lady reported on some “hotspots for cicadas” in the Baltimore area. She then talked about how cicadas might give you food allergies if you’re allergic to seafood, because cicadas are supposedly related to “shrimp and lobsters.”

The mainstream media says that 2021 is the year where “billions” of cicadas are supposed to emerge as they do every 17 years. The mainstream media is even calling this a “Biblical swarm.” Talk about propaganda!

The mainstream media is hyping the benefits of eating bugs while a new report shows the “insect protein” market projected to grow to billion-dollar size in the foreseeable future. This trend does not necessarily spell hope for the future of humanity as we move into a global New World Order in which individuals are disempowered and the so-called “Great Reset” strips humans of their economic potential, especially considering that stopping “climate change” seems to be one of the talking points promoting insect consumption.

In 2013, National Geographic ran the headline “U.N. Urges Eating Insects; 8 Popular Bugs to Try.” As the years have gone on, the trend has garnered more publicity, and it’s reaching a crescendo these days. Here are some recent headlines from our media overlords: “Cole Sprouse Talks Photography, Riverdale, and Eating Bugs” in Vogue, “How to eat cicadas: Just in time for the swarm, tips on cooking the bug-eyed bugs” in WBIR, “They’re Healthy. They’re Sustainable. So Why Don’t Humans Eat More Bugs?” in TIME for a “TIME 2030” feature, which notes that “climate change” could be combated through insect farming.

A press release issued Friday promotes a new report from Vision Research Reports promoting the growth potential in the insect protein market and discusses “easy availability of edible insects” and how this could reduce “greenhouse gases.” The press release states: “The global Insect Protein market size is expected to be worth around US$ 1 billion by 2027, according to a new report by Vision Research Reports. The global Insect Protein market size was valued at US$ 210.6 million in 2019 and is anticipated to grow at a CAGR of 25.0% during forecast period 2020 to 2027. The growth is majorly driven by the willingness of the wealth investors to capitalize with developing insect protein manufacturers. As per the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), minimum two billion people around the world consume insect protein in various forms. Shift in the consumer preference for alternative sources of protein, rising trend of consuming insect-based food, and easy availability of edible insects are some of the key factors driving the growth of the market. The low environmental stress and nutritious benefits of insects are the factors further projected to boost the demand. Flexitarians eat lesser meat and are usually more aware of food sustainability and sourcing, as is the case with those purchasing organic products or following a paleo diet. This alteration in attitudes around food, is expected to create novel opportunities for the insect protein market in near future…

On the basis of product, the market is segmented into Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, Hymenoptera, Orthoptera, Hemiptera, Diptera, and others. Orthoptera refers to the order of insects that includes grasshoppers, crickets, and locusts. It is expected to hold a considerable market share over the forecast period. Crickets in particular have a superior nutrient profile and can contain about 65% protein, offering a complete portion of protein and essential amino acids. Protein ingredients sourced from crickets are being increasingly marketed as alternatives to animal-based protein. Furthermore, production of these protein ingredients requires relatively less water and it also emits less greenhouse gases in comparison with animal-based protein ingredients…Coleoptera refers to the insect order consisting of beetles and weevils. It is the largest order of insects representing about 40% of the species. Edible beetles have been traditionally consumed in various countries owing to their high protein content. For instance, in China, Holotrichia parallela Motschulsky (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea), an edible beetle species, has been traditionally consumed for its high nutrition. While the consumption of live insects of such species has been prevalent, the extraction of proteins from them is relatively a new concept…Major players are concentrating on expanding their total market and productivity through technological innovation. Key market players include Aspire Food Group Protifarm, EntomoFarms, Chapul Cricket Protein, Jimini’s, and Swarm Nutrition GmbH, EnviroFlight LLC, AgriProtein Holdings Ltd. Ÿnsect, Hexafly, Innovafeed, and Protix.” PRESS RELEASE PASSAGE ENDS

Nurse: Houston Hospital Instructs Employees Not To List Vaccine Adverse Reactions

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Houston Methodist Hospital is forbidding its workers from listing any adverse reactions to the Coronavirus vaccine on official records, according to a Houston Methodist nurse. Nurse Jennifer Bridges appeared on The Highwire with Del Bigree to drop the shocking revelation. 

“But every time a nurse or another employee comes out with an adverse reaction, they basically tell them in the ER, they’re like, ‘No, it’s not an adverse reaction. This is just an intolerance.’ And they don’t report it properly and they don’t address it properly,” Jennifer Bridges told Del Bigtree. (WATCH A CLIP OF HER INTERVIEW HERE).

“And I’ve actually been in contact with somebody in the hospital system that deals with, like, the charting and the finalization of people’s charts…They have told me that officially Methodist has told them, ‘Do not list any adverse reactions on anybody’s chart related to the vaccine.’ Like, people are being told to not talk about this, not address it, and not label it on charts basically. Like, us ourselves as employees, have to go to the system and document these adverse reactions because Methodist is not doing it,” nurse Jennifer Bridges told Bigtree.

117 Houston Methodist employees are reportedly suing the hospital to fight the institution’s vaccine mandate.

No, the COVID-19 vaccine is not linked to the mark of the beast – but a first-century Roman tyrant probably is

https://www.yahoo.com/news/no-covid-19-vaccine-not-123036338.html

Eric M. Vanden Eykel, Associate Professor of Religion, Ferrum College

Sun, June 6, 2021, 3:56 PM

A medieval tapestry, which shows John, the Dragon and the Beast of the Sea. Kimon Berlin, user:Gribeco, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

The mass rollout of COVID-19 vaccines has led to concerns from some people that can be described as rational: What are the side effects? How effective will the shot be? And then there are those who are worried that the vaccine will brand people with the “mark of the beast” as described in the New Testament’s Book of Revelation.

The mark of the beast – a cryptic mark in Revelation which indicates allegiance to Satan – has been invoked by fringe Christian figures throughout the pandemic in reference to what they deem to be the evil of masks and vaccines. It ranges from the seemingly metaphorical likening of vaccine passports by a Republican House representative to something like “Biden’s mark of the beast” to the more literal interpretation that those getting a vaccine would be marked as followers of Satan.

It is tempting to dismiss such beliefs out of hand. After all, it is a fringe idea promoted by conspiracy theorists. But the idea has gained enough traction that some medical establishments have felt the need to address it head on. Minneapolis-based Hennepin Healthcare, for example, states in an online fact sheet that “the COVID-19 vaccines do not contain … The Mark of the Beast.”

As a scholar of early Christian literature, I would note that the mark of the beast in Revelation has throughout history been misunderstood as referring to various events and phenomena. Its connection to the COVID-19 vaccine is but the latest example of such misunderstanding.

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Moreover, I argue that the mark in Revelation is best understood in the first-century context in which it was used, as a polemic against the Roman Empire.

Reading Revelation with first-century eyes

The Book of Revelation is a complicated text. Written toward the end of the first century by an author who calls himself John, the text is filled with symbolic imagery that has mystified readers for centuries.

Using visions of angels and demons, death and destruction, John tells a story of an ongoing cosmic battle between good and evil that will end with good triumphing eventually. The beast and its mark are both understood by this author to be evil, and they are some of the most well-known and most misunderstood parts of his story.

In Revelation 13, John describes the beast as having seven heads and 10 horns, a leopard’s body, the feet of a bear and a lion’s mouth. The beast in this text is powerful, Satanic and is an object of worship.

There is also a second beast that promotes worship of the first. The most notable thing about the second beast is that it causes people to receive a mark on their forehead or right hand with “the name of the beast or the number of its name.”

John concludes this chapter with a riddle: “Let anyone with understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a person. Its number is six hundred sixty-six.” (Rev 13:18).

The beast and the empire

Throughout history, this number has been used to demonize phenomena that readers are either wary of or don’t fully understand. It should come as no surprise, then, that some have tried to connect the COVID-19 vaccine to the mark in a similar way.

This interpretation is problematic, however, and for two reasons: First, the COVID-19 vaccines are modern phenomena that the author of Revelation and his earliest readers would have no familiarity with. Second, there is another explanation for the beast and its number that makes far more sense historically.

Many biblical scholars maintain that the first beast is a symbolic representation of first-century Roman emperors. In this reading, each head would represent one emperor. While there is some debate in scholarship on which specific emperors the author of Revelation is alluding to, there is fairly widespread agreement that Emperor Nero is one of them.

This conclusion is drawn not only from other references to Nero in Revelation, but also from his reputation in the first century for persecuting Christians in Rome.

In A.D. 64, when Nero was emperor, a great fire took hold in Rome and burned for nearly a week. Roman historians Suetonius, Cassius Dio and Tacitus claim that Nero himself was the one responsible for igniting the blaze, Tacitus adds that Nero attempted to free himself of blame by placing guilt on the Christians living in the city.

Nero’s number

There are a number of other points in Revelation where the author seems to allude to Nero. There is a possible reference to the great fire of Rome later in the text, for example, in Revelation 17:16. John’s description of one of the beast’s heads being “wounded” may likewise be a reference to Nero’s death, which Suetonius describes as a self-inflicted stab to the neck.

But perhaps the clearest reference to Nero in Revelation is the infamous “666,” the number of the beast that constitutes the beast’s mark.

Past, not future

Although there has been much speculation over the number’s significance in the past, there is a growing body of scholars who believe it to be a direct reference to Nero.

There is a well-known practice in the ancient world called “gematria,” in which letters are assigned numerical values. This allows authors to refer to individuals by using “the number of their name,” rather than their actual name. And biblical scholars have long noted that in Hebrew characters, the numerical value of Nero’s formal title – Caesar Nero – is 666.

This, along with the other allusions to Nero in Revelation, leaves little doubt, I argue, as to who the author is referencing with this number.

There is, however, one piece of this riddle left, and that is what exactly the mark of the beast in Revelation is. Given the symbolic nature of the book as a whole, the reference to being marked on the forehead or hand is likely not something to be taken at face value.

More important is John’s claim that no one would be able to buy or sell anything without having the mark that bears the name of the beast. So, what does one need to buy and sell that would also have the name of the beast on it? One possible answer to that question is money – and we have numerous examples in the archaeological record of Roman coinage that bears the name Caesar Nero.

One of the reasons that Revelation is often confusing to those trying to interpret the book today is that they frequently are trained to see it as a book about the future, when in fact it is primarily a book about the past. Clearly, John and his first-century readers would have been able to know the answer to “What is the mark of the beast?” in their first-century context. Otherwise the text wouldn’t have made much sense to anyone when it was first written.

In other words: when John gives his “number of the beast” riddle to readers in the first century, he anticipates that it is a riddle they will be equipped to solve in the first century.

While some may have lingering questions about COVID-19 vaccines, the question of whether those vaccines are linked to the mark of the beast shouldn’t be one of them.

This article is republished from The Conversation, a nonprofit news site dedicated to sharing ideas from academic experts. It was written by: Eric M. Vanden Eykel, Ferrum College.

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Georgia: Shaye Moss Subpoenaed In Civil Case Over 2020 Election, Must Attend Deposition

https://nationalfile.com/georgia-shaye-moss-subpoenaed-in-civil-case-over-2020-election-must-attend-deposition/

Shaye Moss was seen on video with her mother, Ruby Freeman, appearing to count suitcase ballots after observers were sent home

Wandrea Shaye Moss, the daughter and supervisor of Ruby Freeman, who was recorded on video appearing to tabulate concealed ballots hidden in suitcases under a table cloth during the 2020 election after the media and observers were sent home due to the false claim of a water line breaking, has now been subpoenaed in a civil case relating to the 2020 election, and will be subject to a deposition in which she will be recorded on video.

After The Gateway Pundit identified Ruby Freeman as one of the women in the video, National File identified Shaye Moss as the daughter of Freeman and her immediate supervisor during the election. Moss and Freeman were seen appearing to stop their work, then retrieve suitcases full of ballots that were concealed under a table cloth, and begining to tabulate those ballots in video released during the aftermath of the 2020 election. (READ MORE: Vote Counter Who Provided Suitcase Ballots Is DAUGHTER Of Vote Counter Ruby Freeman)

The subpoena reveals that “Petitioners will take the videotaped deposition upon oral examination of Wandrea Shaye Moss, on Thursday, June 10, 2021” at the “Fulton County Attorney’s Office”. The document continues, “The witness will be examined upon deposition for purposes of discovery, and immediately thereafter will be deposed for preservation of testimony for use at trial”.

Moss is also ordered to provide “A thumb drive containing separately an electronic bit by bit image of all communications for the time period of January 1, 2020, through December 31, 2020 made and received by Wandrea Shaye Moss relating to the November 3, 2020 general election contained on Wandrea Shaye Moss’s cellphones, emails, tablets, desktop computer or drive, laptops, computers, Snap Chat account, WhatsApp account, Face Book account, INstagram account, You Tube postings or account, other social media communications and any and all other electronic devices and electronic accounts under the custody and control of Wandrea Shaye Moss at any time.” She is also ordered to provide “all electronic devices under the custody and control of Wandrea Shaye Moss which were utilized during your activities from approximately January 1, 2020, through December 31, 2020.”

Both President Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani identified Moss and demanded she be subpoenaed in the aftermath of the election, with Giuliani doing so publicly, and President Trump in leaked audio. “We had at least 18 thousand that’s on tape…. 18 thousand voters having to do with (bleep),” Trump said. “She’s a vote scammer, a professional vote scammer and hustler, (bleep).” 

Killing of elders suspected of witchcraft condemned

 

South Africa: Killing of elders suspected of witchcraft condemned – IFP 

Les Govender | 

06 June 2021

Party says seventy-eight-year-old woman’s mutilated body was found in her home in KwaDambuza

The Inkatha Freedom Party condemns in the strongest possible terms the persecution of elderly persons who are accused of witchcraft practices.

This comes after a seventy-eight-year-old woman’s mutilated body was found in her home in KwaDambuza, Edendale. The elderly woman was accused of allegedly practising witchcraft and bewitching people in her area.

Many innocent people have lost their lives due to accusations of practising witchcraft without any evidence. Torturing and various forms of violence against elderly women and men accused of witchcraft constitutes an infringement of their fundamental Human Rights. Section 12 (1) of the Constitution provides that no one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment from either public or private sources. Despite this and other similar legislation, persecution of elderly women suspected of witchcraft continues unabated in KwaZulu-Natal Province and this is unacceptable. Furthermore, there is little or no intervention from government to address this issue. It is our earnest belief that dealing with this horrible and problematic trend requires community dialogue and awareness at a local level.

We are calling on the law enforcement agencies to ensure that killings related to witchcraft are prioritised, investigated, prosecuted and punished accordingly by all legal institutions tasked to carry forth such mandates.

Elderly women and men are subjected to beatings and, in the worst cases, burnt alive by people taking the law into their own hands. This must come to an end. Furthermore, elderly people must be protected at all costs due to their vulnerable status in society. Some elderly people who are suffering from dementia and behave in a particular manner cannot be accused of being witches.

We call upon the Traditional Healers Association in KwaZulu-Natal to enforce laws and take action against some traditional healers who are still practising umhlahlo "witch sniffing" through which witches are identified. We believe that this process is contributing to the killing of people as they are made aware of who allegedly bewitched them.

The IFP calls upon the police to work around the clock to apprehend the killers of the seventy-eight-year-old Henrietta Nzimande who was killed in KwaDambuza.

Issued by Les Govender, IFP KZN Provincial Spokesperson for Social Development, 3 June 2021

ISRAEL'S NETANYAHU DENIES 'INCITEMENT' AS POLITICAL TENSIONS BOIL

 

ISRAEL'S NETANYAHU DENIES 'INCITEMENT' AS POLITICAL TENSIONS BOIL

In power for 12 consecutive years, Benjamin Netanyahu faces being toppled by a motley coalition of lawmakers united only by their shared hostility towards him.

FILE: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament, to deliver a political statement in Jerusalem, on 30 May 2021. Picture: Yonatan Sindel/AFP

JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday rejected accusations of incitement against his political opponents, after security services warned of an escalation in violent discourse.

In power for 12 consecutive years, Netanyahu faces being toppled by a motley coalition of lawmakers united only by their shared hostility towards him.

Mired in a court battle on corruption charges that could see him face prison time, the veteran political mastermind has mobilised his supporters to peel off defectors ahead of a confirmation vote.

On Saturday, the head of Israel's Shin Bet internal security agency Nadav Argaman issued a rare public statement warning of a "severe escalation in violent and inciting discourse" on social media.

"This discourse could be understood by certain groups or individuals as enabling illegal violence that could even cost a life," Argaman said, calling on public officials to "issue a clear call to stop this discourse".

A spokesperson for the Shin Bet would not tell AFP whether Argaman was referring to a certain group or person being threatened, merely saying: "This is a general atmosphere that must stop."

Politicians opposing Netanyahu and some local media outlets, however, have interpreted Argaman's statement as a warning to the premier.

"There is a very thin line between political criticism and inciting violence," Netanyahu said Sunday.

"We can't say that when criticism comes from the right, it's incitement to violence, and when it comes from the left, that it's a justified use of freedom of expression," he told a meeting of Likud party members.

"I condemn all incitement to violence," he added.

Netanyahu claimed he himself was the target of an "even more serious" campaign and again called the coalition that seeks to replace him a "dangerous left-wing government".

The alliance comprises three right-wing, two centrist and two left-wing parties as well as an Arab Islamic conservative party.

Under the coalition agreement, Naftali Bennett of the right-wing nationalist Yamina party would be premier for two years, to be replaced by the centrist Lapid in 2023.

Netanyahu's supporters have been working hard to win defections from Yamina deputies uncomfortable working with Arabs and Jewish leftists.

Some have held demonstrations outside the homes of Yamina lawmakers.

A parliamentary vote of confidence, the last step to formalise the new government, could be held on Wednesday or the following Monday, according to Israeli media.

Parliament's security committee said it would hold an emergency meeting Monday at 9:00 am (0600 GMT) "in light of the unusual warning issued by the head of Shin Bet" as well as over calls from far-right figures for a march in Israeli-occupied east Jerusalem on Thursday.

https://ewn.co.za/2021/06/06/israel-s-netanyahu-denies-incitement-as-political-tensions-boil

 

Biden Is Embracing Europe, but Then What? NATO and the E.U. Have Concerns.

After the Trump trauma, Europe will welcome Biden’s warm words, but tough topics remain, from China and Russia to trade disputes, Covid-19 vaccine diplomacy and transitions to carbon-neutral economies.

BRUSSELS — Four years ago, European leaders were traumatized by President Donald J. Trump, who cheered Brexit and eviscerated NATO, declaring the alliance “obsolete,” calling member countries deadbeats and at first refusing to explicitly endorse NATO’s bedrock mutual defense principle.

As they prepare to welcome President Biden, the simple fact that he regards Europe as an ally and NATO as a vital element of Western security is almost a revelation. Yet the wrenching experience of the last presidential administration has left scars that some experts say will not soon heal.

“Don’t underestimate the Trump years as a shock to the E.U.,” said Rosa Balfour, the director of Carnegie Europe. “There is the shadow of his return and the E.U. will be left in the cold again. So the E.U. is more cautious in embracing U.S. demands.”

And there are serious issues to discuss, ranging from the Afghanistan pullout to military spending, Russia and China, from trade disputes and tariff issues to climate and vaccine diplomacy.

Yet as much as the Europeans appreciate Mr. Biden’s vows of constancy and affection, they have just witnessed how 75 years of American foreign policy can vanish overnight with a change in the presidency.

And they fear that it can happen again — that America has changed, and that Mr. Biden is “an intermezzo” between more populist, nationalist presidents, said Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff, vice president of the German Marshall Fund.

They know that Mr. Biden’s policies will have price tags discreetly attached. They are not sure, for example, how his commitment to a “foreign policy for the middle class” differs from Mr. Trump’s “America first.”

They also know that the electoral clock is ticking, with Germany set to replace Chancellor Angela Merkel in September, next May’s French presidential election and the American midterms, only 17 months away, which could limit Mr. Biden’s room to maneuver.

Still, Mr. Biden’s visits to NATO on June 14 and then the European Union for brief summits, following his attendance at the Group of 7 in Britain, will be more than symbolic. The meetings are synchronized so that he can arrive in Geneva on June 16 with allied consultation and support for his first meeting as president with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.

“The hopeful, optimistic view is that Biden is kicking off a new relationship, showing faith in Brussels and NATO, saying the right words and kicking off the key strategic process” of renovating the alliance for the next decade, said Jana Puglierin, Berlin director of the European Council on Foreign Relations. “But Biden also wants to see bang for the buck, and we need to show tangible results. This is not unconditional love, but friends with benefits.”

François Heisbourg, a French defense analyst, sees only positives from the Biden trip.

Mr. Heisbourg, a special adviser to the Foundation for Strategic Research in Paris. “Biden has some strong views, and he is determined to implement them. International affairs are not his priority, but his basic positioning is, ‘Let’s be friends again, to reestablish comity and civility with allies.’”

But eventually, Mr. Heisbourg said, “policy reviews have to become policy.”

Ivo H. Daalder, who was U.S. ambassador to NATO under President Barack Obama, sees the whole trip as “part of ‘We’re back,’ and important to show that alliances and partners matter, that we want to work with other countries and be nice to our friends. Even the G-7 will be like that.”

But he and others note that Mr. Biden has not yet named ambassadors to either NATO or the European Union — or to most European countries, for that matter — let alone had them confirmed. For now, officials insist, that absence is not vital, and many of the most likely candidates are well-known.

At some point, Mr. Daalder said, allies need ambassadors whom they know can get on the phone immediately with the secretaries of state and defense and, if necessary, Mr. Biden himself.

The NATO summit meeting of 30 leaders will be short, with one 2.5-hour session after an opening ceremony, which would leave just five minutes for each leader to speak.

The leaders will agree on a communiqué now being negotiated, discuss the Afghanistan withdrawal and sign off on an important study, to last a year, on how to remodel NATO’s strategic concept to meet new challenges in cyberwarfare, artificial intelligence, antimissile defense, disinformation, “emerging disruptive technologies” and numerous other issues.

In 2010, when the strategic concept was last revised, NATO assumed that Russia could be a partner and China was barely mentioned. The new one will begin with very different assumptions.

Still, NATO officials and ambassadors say, there is much to discuss down the road, questions like how much and where a regional trans-Atlantic alliance should try to counter China, or deciding what capabilities NATO needs and how many of them should come from common funding or remain the responsibility of member countries.

How to adapt to the European Union’s still vague desire for “strategic autonomy,” while encouraging European military spending and efficiency and avoiding duplication with NATO, are other concerns. So is the question of how to make NATO a more politically savvy institution, as President Emmanuel Macron of France has demanded, perhaps by establishing new meetings of key officials of member states, like national security advisers and political directors.

More quietly, leaders will begin to talk in bilateral sessions about replacing the current NATO secretary-general, Jens Stoltenberg, whose term was extended for two years to keep matters calm during the Trump presidency. His term ends in September 2022.

The other main issues for this brief NATO summit meeting will be topical — how to manage Afghanistan both during and after withdrawal, Mr. Putin’s Russia, Xi Jinping’s China and Aleksandr G. Lukashenko’s Belarus.

Anyone interested in trains running on time will find the NATO summit compelling, said one NATO-country ambassador. Those who are more interested in trains that collide will be disappointed.

The same will be true of Mr. Biden’s meeting the next day, June 15, which is grandly called a summit with the European Union. Mr. Biden is scheduled to meet with two of the European Union’s presidents, Charles Michel of the European Council, who represents the leaders of the 27-member states, and Ursula von der Leyen, who runs the European Commission, the bloc’s powerful bureaucracy.

Mr. Biden will have met 21 of the 27 E.U. leaders the previous day at NATO, since there is considerable overlap in the two organizations. Key exceptions are Turkey, a NATO member that is troublesome in its effort to balance relations with Russia and its enmity toward Greece, and Cyprus, an E.U. member that blocks most coordination with NATO because of its enmity toward Turkey.

The bloc has a wide range of issues to discuss, including tariff and trade disputes stemming from Airbus and Boeing, and steel and aluminum; and new issues like how to enforce a new a minimum global corporate tax rate under an important agreement reached Saturday by the Group of 7 finance ministers.

Other issues include data transfer; military spending and procurement; military mobility; transition to a carbon-neutral economy, including carbon pricing; how to regulate global technology giants and social media companies; how to reform key multilateral institutions like the World Trade Organization and the World Health Organization; and, of course, how best to deal with a rising China and an aggressive Russia.

There is wariness, too, and not just about the possibility that another Trump-like president could follow Mr. Biden. Despite warm words of consultation, German officials in particular believe that Mr. Biden’s decision to pull all U.S. troops out of Afghanistan by Sept. 11 was made unilaterally in the old pattern, with Washington deciding and the allies following along, Ms. Puglierin said.

Similarly, European leaders were angered and embarrassed by Mr. Biden’s decision to support the waiver of intellectual property rights on Covid-19 vaccines. That move, after mounting domestic criticism, was done without warning to allies, let alone consultation.

Europeans do not see China as the peer rival that Washington does and remain more dependent than the United States on both China and Russia for trade and energy. And some worry that Mr. Biden’s effort to define the world as a competition between democracy and authoritarianism is too black-and-white.

“Touching base with allies before the Putin summit is important and goes beyond symbolism,” said Nathalie Tocci, the director of Italy’s International Affairs Institute. “But Europeans are deluding themselves that things can go back the way they were.”

Europeans need to step up, she said, and work with Mr. Biden to get agreements on key issues like climate, vaccines and trade “that can create a Western critical mass that spills into a broader, global multilateral agreement.”

That is the best way, she said, to show that “democracy delivers.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/06/world/europe/biden-nato-eu-trump.html