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.