Sen Rick Scott: Red Square Goes Global As The World's Worst Regimes Gather On May 9

Forty-two years ago, Ronald Reagan stood successful a ballroom successful Orlando, Florida, calling for countries to merge against an evil empire and encouraging them to "not region themselves from nan struggle betwixt correct and incorrect and bully and evil."

Much has changed successful 4 decades - yet nan threat to freedom-loving countries has only grown. 

We still beryllium successful a world of good versus evil - freedom-loving countries for illustration ours that support democracy, quality rights, and economical state against countries for illustration Russia, Communist China, North Korea, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, and others who power and maltreatment nan will and God-given authorities of their citizens. 

On May 9th, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping will guidelines together successful Red Square, celebrating Russia's subject and commemorating its triumph successful World War II. Pay attraction to those who attend, arsenic nary state that supports democracy, freedom, aliases free waste and acquisition should guidelines pinch Putin and Xi.

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Putin’s Russia is 1 of a big of evil powers plotting to utilization their citizens and nan world. It's nary concealed Putin is actively moving to restructure world powerfulness to what we saw successful nan Soviet era. Xi Jinping and Communist China prosecute world domination done economical power that turns profit and power into espionage and genocide. Iran seeks powerfulness by openly supporting violent groups for illustration Hamas and nan Houthis successful nan sidesplitting of innocents, attacking Israel, targeting U.S. ships, and disrupting trade. There is North Korea, who precocious supplied troops for Russia’s penetration of Ukraine, nan illegitimate Maduro authorities successful Venezuela, and nan regimes successful Cuba and Nicaragua, who stock their position of nan world. There are besides countries for illustration Hungary that feign alignment pinch nan U.S. but enactment to support Putin and enactment connected his bully broadside by protecting Russia from EU sanctions. All of these powers cooperate against nan U.S. and our partners, and nan ones successful our hemisphere service arsenic proxies for Russia, China, Iran, and others.

Then location are nan freedom-loving nations of nan world who guidelines together against Putin, Xi, and these evil regimes arsenic we take sides state and our measurement of life. There is simply a clear statement of favoritism betwixt these groups: good vs. evil. 

Years ago, I warned that Communist China had started a caller Cold War pinch nan United States. I said of nan dangers of reasoning that China and our enemies would ever run wrong nan modern world order. I called connected our friends to admit this threat because location would travel a time of reckoning. I besides called for our authorities to show America's spot and resoluteness and a renewed committedness to our friends successful state arsenic we worked to incorporate nan expanding scope of Communist China, Russia, Iran, and others. Under President Trump's first administration, we did so. 

I was ne'er optimistic that nan Biden management had nan courageousness aliases desire to combat nan encroaching dangers; what resulted during his presidency proved maine right.

Our enemies saw nan weaknesses of Joe Biden and his administration, and they took afloat advantage. These evil nations seized each opportunity to tear down nan interests and information of nan U.S. and our allies, fueling panic and evil astir nan world, including nan penetration of a sovereign nation.

President Trump inherited a mess, but he is moving diligently to reverse Biden's disastrous people and reestablish nan U.S. arsenic a beacon of spot successful nan world, sending a clear message: nan U.S. is back. We guidelines for liberty, democracy, and adjacent play, and to guidelines opposed to that is to guidelines opposed to us. 

President Trump is already moving to ace down connected Communist China's abuses. He and Secretary of State Marco Rubio person acted to portion Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro of each assets he's utilizing to cling to power, and they've exerted maximum unit connected Iran to extremity them from getting a atomic weapon. They've besides reversed nan Biden administration's vulnerable appeasement and enablement of nan Cuban regime, which funded evil and instability passim our hemisphere for decades. We've seen President Trump activity to bring bid to Ukraine and put unit connected Putin by maintaining and threatening accrued sanctions while getting our European friends connected committee to guarantee Putin is simply a world pariah if he refuses to travel to nan speech table. He has besides opened nan doorway to early subject assistance for Ukraine, which could and should beryllium underwritten financially by our European allies.

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On my recent trip to Finland, Estonia, and Denmark, I met pinch our friends connected nan beforehand lines defending america against Russian aggression, and I saw nan use of President Trump pushing our NATO friends to measurement up and lend much to their ain defenses. These 3 countries are leaders successful responding to President Trump's calls, gathering and surpassing NATO minimum defense standards. Even Germany has activated its subject by sending troops to thief protect nan separator successful Lithuania, though it has only conscionable met its 2% GDP extremity for nan first clip successful almost 35 years. Unfortunately, they are not unsocial successful this. While nan U.S. is consenting and capable to protect our allies, we cannot do truthful if they are not consenting and capable to take sides themselves. 

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This showdown of bully versus evil will not beryllium decided solely done accepted subject actions but done economical battles arsenic well. We must enforce strategical sanctions and activity to extremity policies that proviso our enemies pinch nan money and economical powerfulness to money their atrocities. We must make our enemies world pariahs and cripple their economies, different nan United States and our friends will not beryllium safe. 

The United States will ever guidelines connected nan broadside of state and democracy; it is not only a noble fight, but an basal one. And we will ever guidelines against those who wish america destroyed. I, for one, will beryllium watching arsenic each federation makes clear which broadside they're connected travel May 9th successful Red Square.