Who needs Europe? We pay to defend them and absorb $200 billion in annual trade deficits.

Just three years ago, Rubio and Tim Kaine succeeded in getting Congress to prohibit the president from unilaterally suspending, terminating, denouncing, or withdrawing the U.S. from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization without the approval of two-thirds of the Senate.

Trump has a hard enough time getting one-third of the Senate to agree with him, let alone two.

But he has a phone and a pen. And he has a growing plurality of Americans who believe NATO’s time ended when the Soviet Union died.

Trump will make sure he gives men and women of the military the credit they deserve: US ambassador

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The Ironic Curtain; Europeans who lived under communism hate it. Those spared pursue it.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s speech at the Munich Security Conference shook up the European leadership by reminding them of the dangers of communism. He did this because his grandpa, Pedro Víctor García, a refugee from Castro’s Cuba, taught him well about the dangers of communism.

Four Fires, One Ally With a Hose: Why NATO Has to Grow Up So America Can Survive

At the Munich Security Conference, Secretary of State Marco Rubio did something unusual in modern diplomacy: he told the truth politely. He reaffirmed America’s commitment to Europe, praised NATO, spoke warmly about shared history and civilization—and then, in effect, slid a note across the table that read: You’re going to have to handle more of your own business.

NATO Was Yesterday: The New Fight Starts in the Western Hemisphere

The National Security Strategy tells you what’s coming, what matters, and—most importantly—what’s about to get funded. Not because the NSS is magical. Because in Washington, priorities aren’t real until money gets thrown at them like confetti at a parade.

From Farmer Strikes to Fighter Jets: Meet NATO’s New Boss, Mark Rutte

Hey, remember that wild farmer strike in the Netherlands a couple years back? The one where thousands of angry Dutch farmers rolled their tractors onto highways, blocked airports, and sprayed manure at government buildings because the government wanted to shut down half their farms to “save the environment”? Well — guess who was running that …

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The War That Never Was”–An alternative history grounded in the real NATO, Part III

In February 2014, while Western leaders debated sanctions over Ukrainian protests, unmarked soldiers began seizing airfields and government buildings in Crimea. No insignia, no declarations, just discipline and precision — “little green men.”

World War III Watch: Britain goes all out neocon

Prussian Field Marshall Helmuth von Moltke the Elder wrote, “No plan of operations extends with certainty beyond the first encounter with the enemy’s main strength,” which is frequently bastardized as “No plan survives contact with the enemy.” I’m old enough to remember when debates in the United States were all about matching the Soviets in …

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