Dan Sullivan: NATO Allies Have to ‘Step up and Do Their Part’ as the Alliance Supports Ukraine

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SULLIVAN: “My big message to all the leaders in NATO during the summit — and it's something we talked about with the president, Jake Sullivan, when we were over there — one of the critical issues that we have to keep pushing with regard to NATO is to get the rest of our allies to step up and do their part. You know, we want this alliance, which is one of the most successful military alliances in history, to be strong, to be sustainable, but it's undermined the sustainability of NATO when only seven of 31 members of NATO currently meet their 2% of GDP obligation for defense spending. And, look, that in my view has the potential to undermine even support for Ukraine in the near term and, longer term, the support for NATO. So, we need our other NATO allies to step up. Some are doing it, Sweden's joining, as you know, they're going to hit 2% right off the bat. Some are laggards. Canada is barely above 1%. It's unacceptable. And we drove that message home, by the way, in a bipartisan way, in every meeting we had."