Link , Link , [What America’s Allies Want and Need to Hear from Biden The president's speech at the Munich Security Conference offers an opportunity to repair transatlantic relations, in part by addressing sources of tension directly....I’m pleased to return, even if remotely, to the Munich Security Conference, a forum I have attended many times when I was a U.S. senator and as vice president. I fondly recall traveling to Munich many times with the late Sen. John McCain in a bipartisan display of support for vibrant transatlantic relations. I know the past few years have been a rocky time in our relationship. I acknowledge that even when I was vice president, the “pivot” to Asia did not sit well in European capitals. But I promise you, as I did recently in remarks at the U.S. Department of State, that diplomacy is back. I pledge that I will not denigrate our friends and allies in Europe. I pledge full U.S. support to NATO, the greatest defensive alliance in history. In calls to many of your leaders, I have affirmed that America’s partnership with the European Union and NATO forms “the cornerstone of our collective security and shared democratic values.”]