Harris and Blinken seek to reaffirm the wounded leadership of the United States in Munich. The paralysis of aid to Ukraine, the controversial support for Netanyahu and the specter of Trump's return cloud Washington's global projection.

But there are no objective guarantees that this will be the case, neither for those who want it, nor those who hate it. Everyone watches. Everyone tries to calm concerns, including the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelmyrky, to try and calm concerns.