Nervous world leaders fret over what the Biden chaos means for NATO's future

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : Several foreign leaders, during their remarks upon arrival and at various panel discussions occurring on the summit sidelines this week, have addressed the growing possibility of Trump returning to the White House next year.
50% : "That nervousness about the prospect of Trump once again leading NATO's most indispensable member country is deeply felt among officials and many heads of state, whose confident statements about the alliance maintaining its recent momentum cut against other expressions of real uncertainty.
45% : Others responded mostly with platitudes about respecting America's democratic process and professions of faith that NATO will endure even if Trump is ushered back into office.
43% : "Ivo Daalder, a former U.S. ambassador to NATO under President Barack Obama, said that NATO allies, many of which have already accelerated defense spending in response to the war in Ukraine, would continue working toward greater strategic autonomy as it becomes more likely in their view that Trump may win.
34% : Many have touted how 23 of the 32 member nations have reached or exceeded the shared goal that countries spend at least 2 percent of GDP on defense -- a major sticking point for Trump, who threatened to pull the U.S. out of the alliance at the 2018 summit in Brussels unless other countries shared more of the burden.
32% : The overwhelming focus on Biden, some officials said, was diverting attention away from Trump and what it would mean if the Republican, who as president berated NATO allies for not spending enough on defense and threatened to withdraw from the alliance, returned to the White House.
25% : Alexander Stubb, the American-educated president of Finland, one of NATO's newest members, lamented the "toxic" level of political polarization in the U.S., while stating optimistically that Washington will continue to need European allies even if Trump wins in November.
17% : They all registered the continuing fallout from Biden's dismal June 27 debate performance two weeks ago, the ongoing drip of doubt among Democrats who no longer believe he can defeat Trump in November and the precarity of a moment when his candidacy seems to hang on every word and step.
15% : But nearly everyone who spoke got hit with the same awkward questions about Biden's weakened political position following his debate with Trump and what his electoral loss could mean for the alliance.

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