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Marco Rubio: “Without the United States, the countries of Europe would…”

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio Testifies on Venezuela

Published | Video Starts at 35:23

I mean, Spain is still not doing the 5%. I mean there are countries that are still not doing. And in fact, Mark Rute yesterday pointed out that Without the United States, the countries of Europe would have to spend 10% of their GDP for the next 20 years to be able to make up the whole. So I do think there needs to be a rebalancing, and hopefully we'll have cooperation. I think we will. Ruthe has done a great job of. (35:23–35:31)

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Asserts that European countries would need to spend 10% of GDP for 20 years to compensate for the absence of U.S. support.

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