Sen. Rick Scott in the Washington Examiner: NATO is Stronger Because Trump Demanded More

WASHINGTON, D.C.- Today, Senator Rick Scott published an op-ed in the Washington Examiner highlighting how NATO has grown stronger because President Trump leaned on alliance members to make good on their defense commitments.

As NATO meets in Turkey for an alliance-wide summit, Senator Scott argues that, because member nations are now seriously investing in their own defense, the alliance is stronger than the sum of its parts.

Senator Scott wrote, "Here's the deal: For many years, NATO was about charity. The United States and a select few European countries provided for the alliance. However, NATO can and should be a hard-nosed security arrangement that advances American and the other members' interests, and it only works when every ally carries its fair share of the burden.

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"Trump did what his predecessors could not. He made it clear that every NATO ally must live up to its commitments, including Article 3 of the North Atlantic Treaty, which requires every member to build and maintain its own capacity to defend itself first.

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"NATO remains the strongest military alliance in history, bringing together 32 countries committed to defending themselves and one another. At a time when communist China is expanding its military and Putin's Russia continues its aggression in Europe, projecting decisive strength matters more than ever."

Read the full op-ed HERE.

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