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I understand there's domestic politics, after decades of building up vast social safety nets that maybe don't want to take away from that and invest more in national security,
Rubio said while speaking at a NATO foreign ministers event in Brussels This included ... No one expects that you're going to be able to do this in one year or two. But the pathway has to be real."
My personal preference would be that our representatives of the Coalition of the Willing would be doing that. In other words France or the United Kingdom,
The United States is as active in NATO as it has ever been,
Rubio told reporters as he greeted NATO chief Mark Rutte before the meeting began The U.S expects European allies to take more responsibility for their own security,
Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp said, ... which means We need to preempt a rapid retreat, but we’ve had nothing precise from the U.S. yet,
a senior NATO diplomat said ahead of the meeting, briefing reporters on his country’s expectations on condition that he not be named President Trump’s made clear he supports NATO,
We want NATO to be stronger, we want NATO to be more visible and the only way NATO can get stronger, more visible is if our partners, the nation states that comprise this important alliance, have more capability,
The focus here of all 32 [NATO members] is how to defend NATO territory against the Russians, our long-term threat, which will be there even after, I hope there will be a deal on Ukraine,
Absolutely, they are."
He has to be careful that he doesn’t say anything, either publicly or, frankly, privately, that gets leaked that in any way contradicts the president’s main message,
We’re not at the negotiating table yet. That’s hard to swallow, but that’s a fact of life,
the NATO diplomat said, lamenting that European negotiators We need to engage them in a conversation on timeline and capabilities. The homework is being done in a number of countries,
The last American to leave Europe should be SACEUR,
He’s against a NATO that does not have the capabilities that it needs to fulfill the obligations that the treaty imposes upon each and every member state,
Rubio said, pointing to Trump’s demand that alliance members attain the ability to defend themselves We’ve moved from a pure denial,
he said of European views on the prospect of U.S. disengagement They’re talking about the fact that Europe can no longer rely on the United States,
he said, and seeing it as a power We should be agile and think what are the military effects we need to be able to produce very quickly,
We also have domestic needs but we prioritize defense,
There are no plans for them to all of a sudden draw down their presence here in Europe,
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