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Come for the gaff, stay for Emmanuel Macron suggesting to Mathias Gjesdal Hammer that *even he* can make a mistake on a name.

"We all make mistakes. It’s happened to me, it’ll probably happen to me again tomorrow,” France's President Emmanuel Macron said when I asked him about Biden's flub at a press briefing.

“Biden has had a strong presence in all the discussions and set the agenda with his comments,” Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre told Mathias Gjesdal Hammer on the sidelines of the summit. semafor.com/article/07/12/…

Mathias Gjesdal Hammer French President Emmanuel Macron told Semafor that he had spoken with Biden “at length” and “saw as always a president who is in charge, clear on the issues he knows well.” semafor.com/article/07/12/…

The U.S. plans to deploy long-range missiles in Germany for the first time since the Cold War. Mathias Gjesdal Hammer writes about the possible consequences Semafor with assessments from me and Jon B. Wolfsthal 🟦🇨🇿 semafor.com/article/07/12/…

Interested in Asia? If so, we have the event for you! Join Kori Schake 🌻🇺🇦 @kschake.bsky.social and me American Enterprise Institute for a conversation with the top U.S. officials on Asia: - Dan Kritenbrink Department of State - Ely Ratner Department of Defense 🇺🇸 - Mira Rapp-Hooper The White House More info here: aei.org/events/deliver…

China has further elaborated on its “No First Use” proposal in a new working paper submitted to this year’s NPT PrepCom:

Ursula von der Leyen’s political guidelines are here. A thread on some of the important news on Security, Defence, and Foreign Policy 🧵 1/

My latest CSS report traces the journey of a UKR volunteer group known as Aerorozvidka, from its deployment of drones and installing stationary cameras with sat-uplinks on the battlefield, to developing the situational awareness platform Delta. Link: css.ethz.ch/content/dam/et…

New: Joe Biden has received a national security memorandum on AI, a US official told me. The document is expected to set out how to manage “AI's security risks,” and outline actions that DoD, State, and the IC should take to manage the benefits and risks of AI.

NATO’s new map of 32 allies – w/ Finland & Sweden now in – may need to be connected, but drawing lines on the map is rife with political tension. How do they put Norway's 17,000-mi coastline, Sweden's 267,000 islands, and Finland's 830 mi border with Russia on one map? (🧵)

1/ Great reporting from Joseph Zeballos-Roig Semafor, who continues breaking the news to the rest of the world about what we American Compass call The Return of the Fiscal Conservatives. This story has it all...🧵

In 1959 and 1960, Soviet trawlers cut multiple transatlantic cables including one that carried nuclear early warning data from Thule Greenland to North America. I write about it here: tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

"Treasury officials have advocated tougher maritime sanctions to reduce Russian oil revenue. The White House has thus far resisted such efforts. That’s a mistake."

🚨We raised the security level at NATO Airbase Geilenkirchen based on intelligence information indicating potential threat. All non-mission essential staff have been sent home as a precautionary measure. The safety of our staff is our top priority. Operations continue as planned.

🇩🇪🇪🇺 SCOOP: German digital policy officials are holding (very early) talks on ways to push social media platforms to add image authentication tools that could differentiate between real and fake photos semafor.com/article/08/29/…

US-UK nuke tech sharing agreement to be extended indefinitely: ft.com/content/2ebca4…

🇸🇪 #Sweden’s Foreign Minister Tobias Billström announces he will leave his post, parliament and politics altogether, citing no specific reasons for his exit.