WASHINGTON: Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday that the United States “is going to have to reexamine” its relationship with NATO once the war against Iran has concluded.
“I think there’s no doubt, unfortunately, after this conflict is concluded, we are going to have to reexamine that relationship. We’re going to have to reexamine the value of NATO in that alliance for our country,” Rubio said to host Sean Hannity on Fox News.
He added that “ultimately” it would be a decision for President Donald Trump to make.
The top US diplomat said he had been “one of the strongest defenders of NATO” while he was in the US Senate because he “found great value in it.”
Much of that value was in having military bases in Europe that allowed the US military “to project power into different parts of the world,” Rubio said.
