Rubio: NATO ‘Not Obsolete,’ ‘As Important as It’s Been Since the End of the Cold War’ – IOTW Report

Rubio: NATO ‘Not Obsolete,’ ‘As Important as It’s Been Since the End of the Cold War’

Tuesday, 17 January 2017, 12:00 MJA Uncategorized 28

Monday in Miami after attending a Martin Luther King Day event, while commenting on President-elect Donald Trump saying NATO is obsolete, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) said NATO was “not only not obsolete I believe it’s as important as it’s been since the end of the Cold War.”

Rubio said, “Well, NATO is not obsolete. It most certainly needs to be reinvigorated given the new challenges of the 21st century. But our Transatlantic alliance with our partners in Europe is not only not obsolete I believe it’s as important as it’s been since the end of the Cold War.”

Video @ Breitbart

28 Comments on Rubio: NATO ‘Not Obsolete,’ ‘As Important as It’s Been Since the End of the Cold War’

  1. This is interesting, Little Marco attacks Trump and then says the exact thing Trump said.
    It’s old, it’s not working, they aren’t paying their share, that’s what Trump said, you just have to get past the sound bite.

  2. I agree completely. NATO was barely important during the cold war and when the cold war ended it was not important at all. Today it’s just an unimportant as it’s been since the end of the cold war.

  9. after working as a contractor with (No Actions To Occur) in Iraq the first few months of 05, I can assure you that NATO is more fucked up than a soup sandwich. Always wanting something for nothing. They have a history of not paying their contractors. It seems like its hard to get 28 countries to agree on payments, contracts and the like. I’ll never have anything to do with them again.

  10. But wait! There’s more!
    Did Mr. Trump really call NATO obsolete?
    Yes. “I said a long time ago that NATO had problems,” Trump said during the interview with the Times of London and Germany’s Bild. “Number one, it was obsolete, because it was designed many, many years ago. Number two, the countries weren’t paying what they’re supposed to pay.””
    But then he followed with this (Breitbart): “Trump nonetheless stressed that NATO is “very important to me,” and that he feels “very strongly toward Europe,” comments that appear to have been omitted from or dismissed by many reports on the interview by American and European media outlets.” (Imagine that)

  12. both the senate meeting in

    both nato and the senate meeting in DC are obsolete. end nato and send the senate home. the senate can skype their votes in, much cheaper and harder to bribe them.

    nato has been nothing but a waste of tax dollars.

  15. NATO as it stands today is somewhat obsolete in some respects. Trump is right when he states that many countries (mine I’m sorry to say included) don’t fund their military to the GDP percent we promised. For that you can blame Trudeau the Elder and his Liberals from decades ago. However the organisation gives western countries an invaluable opportunity to train together on an ongoing basis which is a priceless advantage if a war should come. Having said that, NATO needs a top to bottom re-think of it’s mission, it’s goals and it’s structure along with it’s membership. Does anyone think it’s a good idea that Turkey remain a NATO full partner with that country trundling along to a Muslim dictatorship? Is Russia still the primary enemy? While the Cold War may well be over don’t presume that Russia is going to sit back on it’s haunches and do nothing. They’ve made more territorial gains since the Cold War ended and continue to agitate and threaten in Europe. How about China? While NATO is primarily a euro entity, it’s still the only integrated, multi-country war fighting entity the west has and could be called on to confront China.

    Trump is right in that it’s role and responsibilities need to be rethought however I would suspect that his use of the word obsolete was not a good one in the context of his speech but then I suspect Rubio knew that and decided this was a good time to show that “he’s his own man”. Political BS.

  16. It’s amazing to me that at this point in my life the top four congress critters I’d like to get rid of all have “R” by their names. Never did I think life would come to this.

  18. Nope – I think Trump had the right word – for the UN and NATO – obsolete. They have both been taken over by the kind of people they were designed to protect the world from in the first place.

    Rubio is irrelevant. Can’t wait to see the last of him and Ryan – along with a whole lot of other twatwaffles in DC.

  20. After two weeks of operations against the great power Libya France and England were out of bombs and spare parts. They would be absolutely indispensable in a real fight.

  21. GLadys JANUARY 17, 2017 AT 1:54 PM
    “Nope – I think Trump had the right word – for the UN and NATO – obsolete. They have both been taken over by the kind of people they were designed to protect the world from in the first place.”

    They have both been taken over by the kind of people they were designed to protect the world from in the first place!!!!

    Damn Ya!

  22. NATO existed for the sole purpose of resisting the expansionist USSR. The USSR is gone, and so is its reason to exist.

    Government (national and would-by global) entities defend their own existence and growth against all else. When they’re obsolete, they do so by inventing new “missions”.

    The only plausible repurposing of NATO would be to resist Islamic expansionism. If they want to make that case, start by ejecting Turkey.

  24. Ryan and Rubio are both trying to pretend they are President rather than Trump. I can’t wait til he slaps them upside the head and puts them in their place.

    Not only that – Trump should make sure someone decent runs against them in their next elections so they can be thrown out. Either that or dig up the criminal dirt on them and impeach or recall – whatever they do to fire them early.

  26. NATO has outlived its mission and it takes our focus off the real enemy today — islam, and the far left communist democrat enemy within. NATO is a ripoff and we should have been out years ago. Russia is not the enemy but there are still military people who cannot let go of this and are convinced that Ivan wants to take over the world (they also like those sweet taxpayer funded trips to Europe and the first class service and good Euro food and drink–that we pay for). If you explain this to them, they tell you that they are military and you are not, so there, they know better than you. We need to stop fighting the Cold War and face 2017 realities.

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