We are not exactly sure why Obama would be "noticeably absent" from the start of this week's NATO-Ukraine commission (from The Hill [4]):
President Obama was nowhere to be found during the beginning of a meeting of the NATO-Ukraine commission in Wales on Thursday.
Obama was "noticeably absent" from the start of the meeting, according to a White House pool report, although U.S. Ambassador to NATO Douglas Lute was in attendance.
... but the following could provide some much needed clues (as we noted previously) [5]...
First this:
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