Roy Blunt: “I want to join with my five colleagues who have been here today and the two people who were with us, Senator Durbin and…”

“I want to join with my five colleagues who have been here today and the two people who were with us, Senator Durbin and Senator Fischer. I would say one of the great things about this effort was the unanimous feeling that all seven of us had about both what is happening in NATO and our commitment to win in Ukraine. We were able to demonstrate that to every group we met with from every country we met with. I think with the strong leadership of Chairmen Shaheen and Tillis that it made an impression on where we were and the unity we have on this. It would be interesting to know if Putin was more surprised by the Ukrainian resistance, the poor performance of his own military, or my guess would be he may have been most surprised by what has happened at NATO--the great turnaround of the NATO--the current NATO countries and their commitment to NATO, their commitment to what they have been willing to do and pledged to do with NATO and then to see these two incredibly important security contributors join NATO after 73 years of being neutral and an important part of the world and saw that as part of their long-term commitment.…”