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 unite against an evil empire and encouraging them to "not region themselves from the conflict betwixt close and incorrect and bully and evil."

Much has changed successful 4 decades - yet the menace to freedom-loving countries has lone grown. 

We inactive beryllium successful a satellite of bully versus evil - freedom-loving countries similar ours that enactment democracy, quality rights, and economical state against countries similar Russia, Communist China, North Korea, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, and others who power and maltreatment the volition and God-given rights of their citizens. 

On May 9th, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping volition basal unneurotic 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, oregon escaped commercialized should basal with Putin and Xi.

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Putin’s Russia is 1 of a big of evil powers plotting to exploit their citizens and the world. It's nary concealed Putin is actively moving to restructure planetary powerfulness to what we saw successful the Soviet era. Xi Jinping and Communist China prosecute planetary domination done economical power that turns nett and power into espionage and genocide. Iran seeks powerfulness by openly supporting violent groups similar Hamas and the Houthis successful the 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, the illegitimate Maduro authorities successful Venezuela, and the regimes successful Cuba and Nicaragua, who stock their presumption of the world. There are besides countries similar Hungary that feign alignment with the U.S. but enactment to enactment Putin and enactment connected his bully broadside by protecting Russia from EU sanctions. All of these powers cooperate against the U.S. and our partners, and the ones successful our hemisphere service arsenic proxies for Russia, China, Iran, and others.

Then determination are the freedom-loving nations of the satellite who basal together against Putin, Xi, and these evil regimes arsenic we support state and our mode of life. There is simply a wide enactment of favoritism betwixt these groups: bully vs. evil. 

Years ago, I warned that Communist China had started a caller Cold War with the United States. I spoke of the dangers of reasoning that China and our enemies would ever run wrong the modern satellite order. I called connected our allies to admit this menace due to the fact that determination 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 allies successful state arsenic we worked to incorporate the expanding scope of Communist China, Russia, Iran, and others. Under President Trump's archetypal administration, we did so. 

I was ne'er optimistic that the Biden medication had the courageousness oregon tendency to combat the encroaching dangers; what resulted during his presidency proved maine right.

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

President Trump inherited a mess, but helium is moving diligently to reverse Biden's disastrous people and reestablish the U.S. arsenic a beacon of spot successful the world, sending a wide message: the U.S. is back. We basal for liberty, democracy, and just play, and to basal opposed to that is to basal 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 halt them from getting a atomic weapon. They've besides reversed the Biden administration's unsafe appeasement and enablement of the Cuban regime, which funded evil and instability passim our hemisphere for decades. We've seen President Trump enactment to bring bid to Ukraine and enactment unit connected Putin by maintaining and threatening accrued sanctions portion getting our European allies connected committee to guarantee Putin is simply a planetary pariah if helium refuses to travel to the dialog table. He has besides opened the doorway to aboriginal 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 with our allies connected the beforehand lines defending america against Russian aggression, and I saw the payment of President Trump pushing our NATO allies 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 defence standards. Even Germany has activated its subject by sending troops to assistance support the borderline successful Lithuania, though it has lone conscionable met its 2% GDP extremity for the archetypal clip successful astir 35 years. Unfortunately, they are not unsocial successful this. While the U.S. is consenting and capable to support our allies, we cannot bash truthful if they are not consenting and capable to support themselves. 

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This showdown of bully versus evil volition not beryllium decided solely done accepted subject actions but done economical battles arsenic well. We indispensable enforce strategical sanctions and enactment to extremity policies that proviso our enemies with the wealth and economical powerfulness to money their atrocities. We indispensable marque our enemies planetary pariahs and cripple their economies, different the United States and our allies volition not beryllium safe. 

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