Marco Rubio
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I've been a strong supporter of NATO throughout my career in the Senate and even now.
One of the advantages of being in NATO is that it allows us to have forces deployed in Europe and bases that allow us a logistical ability to project power in case of contingencies.
But we had a contingency.
And some countries in Europe, some countries in Europe, like Spain as an example, denied us the use of those bases for a very important contingency that in some ways the denial of those bases actually impeded the mission, not severely, but had a cost and in fact even created some unnecessary dangers.
So if one of the main reasons why the US is in NATO is the ability to have forces deployed
in Europe that we could project to other contingencies.
And now that's no longer the case, at least when it comes to some NATO members, that's a problem and it has to be examined.
But ultimately that's a decision for the president to make.
Normalize.
a country claiming to control an international waterway.
Because if you normalize that, you've set a precedent that's gonna get repeated in a dozen other places.
And if the answer is, no, we don't wanna normalize it, then you better have something more than just strongly worded statements to back it up.
Here's a more fundamental problem.
Iran now claims that they own, that they have a right to control an international waterway.
They claim that they have a right to control it.
What is the world going to do about that?
Is the world going to accept that Iran now controls an international waterway?
Because if the world is prepared to accept that, then be ready, because there's like 10 other countries that are going to start doing the same thing in their international waterways, or in international waterways near their countries.
That's an unacceptable thing that they're trying to normalize.
So if the answer is no, we don't think Iran should be able to control the Straits of Hormuz, then the next question is going to be for everyone, well, what are you going to do about it?