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Joe Biden: “I take some responsibility and credit for rebuilding NATO…”

Featuring: Joe Biden, Democrat | Former President of the United States | National

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Published | Video Starts at 20:33

The first meeting, I think it was in February, my first year, and I sat there and I looked and I said, america's back. Emmanuel looked at me and said, for how long? For how long? We. I take some responsibility and credit for rebuilding NATO. We added two significant powers to NATO. Ten days before Dr. Kissinger died, he called me and he said, not since Napoleon has Paris not looked over its shoulder at Moscow with a feeling of dread until you came along. (20:33–20:42)

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Asserts that Biden played a role in rebuilding NATO and adding two significant powers to it.

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