Florida Republican Governor and guy who thinks he’s being coy Ron DeSantis replied to a question from Fox propagandist Tucker Carlson about what position potential 2024 presidential candidates would take regarding Ukraine. DeSantis broke with the Republican establishment, declaring the US would not provide aid to the nascent democratic government battling invaders:
While the U.S. has many vital national interests – securing our borders, addressing the crisis of readiness within our military, achieving energy security and independence, and checking the economic, cultural, and military power of the Chinese Communist Party – becoming further entangled in a territorial dispute between Ukraine and Russia is not one of them. The Biden administration’s virtual “blank check” funding of this conflict for “as long as it takes,” without any defined objectives or accountability, distracts from our country’s most pressing challenges.
DeSantis goes on to say there’s no way America should pursue two things no one in Washington is talking about: regime change in Moscow and putting US troops on the ground in Ukraine. DeSantis disfavor the latter because he says it would lead to an endless morass and he doesn’t like the former because he’s answering a questionnaire from a Putin fanboy and knows how to stroke Carlson’s wattles.