Rep. King: Trump Is Right that NATO Needs To Be Updated

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KING: "It has severe weaknesses. If you talk to European leaders they'll tell you that. The fact is, there are only a few countries who really are in any way even coming close to paying what they're supposed to be paying. If you go back to the war in Kosovo, I remember that the United States carried out 95 percent of air missions in that war, and that wasn't air attack war. So the United States carries an unusually large burden. Having said that, NATO is essential to our defense. So we can send a wake-up call to NATO. Maybe Donald Trump could have done it more quietly, but you talk to top foreign ministers and defense leaders from European countries and they will tell you there are only a few countries in NATO that really do have the fighting capacity and are living up to what they should be doing."