Ron DeSantis says protecting Ukraine is not a 'vital' U.S. interest
Source: NBC via AOL
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a potential Republican presidential candidate, broke with many in his party Monday and told Fox News host Tucker Carlson that protecting Ukraine is not a "vital" national interest for the U.S.
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," DeSantis wrote in a questionnaire response Carlson posted on his Twitter feed.
"The Biden administrations virtual 'blank check' funding of this conflict for 'as long as it takes,' without any defined objectives or accountability, distracts from our countrys most pressing challenges," DeSantis continued.
He argued that "peace should be the objective" for the U.S. and expressed his opposition to sending "F-16s and long-range missiles" to help Ukraine defend itself against Russian President Vladimir Putin's war.
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Go piss up a rope. Defending democracy IS in our national interest.
oldsoftie
(12,674 posts)That implies Ukraine isnt a country.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,075 posts)Timeflyer
(2,044 posts)DemocraticPatriot
(4,537 posts)Aussie105
(5,499 posts)Listening to Ron DeSantis is not a 'vital' U.S. interest either.
The objectives?
Push Russia back behind its border.
Rebuild Ukraine.
Strengthen NATO so this doesn't happen again.
If Putin disappears in the process, so much the better.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,075 posts)Grokenstein
(5,730 posts)Republicans used to accuse us of capitulation, now GQP cretins call us warmongers because we're helping an independent nation resist a Russian invasion. What a world, what a world.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,075 posts)FDR and the Democratic Party were proven right then.
JRB and the Democratic Party are right now.
DemocraticPatriot
(4,537 posts)the biggest isolationists prior to World War II were Republicans....
Snoopy 7
(531 posts)de santis is only trying to get what russia's old political ally, trump, was getting- a lot of RUSSIAN MONEY. trump is doing his best to stay in the russian money line while de santis is elbowing his way into the line.
SWBTATTReg
(22,222 posts)is full of sh&t.
gibraltar72
(7,518 posts)when we can pay the big price later. God that man is stupid. Ukraine is destroying 3 million dollar Russian tanks with 1 hundred thousand dollar missiles.
tornado34jh
(978 posts)You probably have never been outside the US. How much Russian money did you receive? What do you know about Ukraine? I dare you to go to Ukraine and say that to Zelensky, coward! They are fighting more for democracy than you ever will! What about Taiwan? Is that a US interest? I swear, people like this drive me crazy. They have no idea what they are talking about, probably have never even left the US but think they know everything.
Eyeball_Kid
(7,440 posts)"How about some cash, Vlad?"
DeSantis would gladly disgrace the Constitution for a bag of money. That's who he is.
You want him, Florida? You can have him.
tornado34jh
(978 posts)In fact, really he probably likes Orban as well
CousinIT
(9,276 posts)There. I fixed it.
Lonestarblue
(10,170 posts)new vial interest, under which they can establish the s as a theocracy governed for the beliefs of white evangelicals.
Mike Nelson
(9,990 posts)... they've always had this secret, but I guess it's not in the open. There was a pro-Hitler group and a "conservative" anti-War group in the US. I think it was Bob Dole who once let the "Democrat Wars" comment slip... World War I being Woodrow Wilson's and World War II being FDR's war. They really don't like Democracy, I think, giving everyone a fair life.
SouthernDem4ever
(6,617 posts)This is getting old.
KPN
(15,679 posts)a fair life. They see no differences in life opportunities among races, genders, sexual orientations, etc. But by golly, only straight white male Christians can be in charge.
BlueMTexpat
(15,374 posts)a "vital" US citizen!
He should emigrate to Russia, where he belongs.
rurallib
(62,483 posts)Poland? Finland? The Baltic. states? East Germany? The Czech Republic?
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)to weasel out and thereby open the Ukrainian door to the raging tanks of yang-perverted XristoFascism, Inc. and allied wholesale slaughter of non-compliant entities. The repugs manifestly intend to bring facism home, wrapped in a hideous black flag and brandishing a Bible they do not actually honor.
SouthernDem4ever
(6,617 posts)Desatan must need the campaign money and social media support from a terrorist state. What an asshole.
Botany
(70,657 posts).... the election. He can talk all he wants about made up stuff CRT, Woke, and Fauci with his
"biomedical woke social control" but at the end of the day he is just like Trump and is pushing
the Christo Fascist right wing state.
DeSantis is an evil mother fucker.
The Jungle 1
(4,552 posts)They want to be just like russia.
Irish_Dem
(48,097 posts)Cha
(298,086 posts)The Jungle 1
(4,552 posts)IronLionZion
(45,667 posts)lark
(23,199 posts)He thinks christofascism is the way to go, democracy is so yesterday to him and his ilk.
Jarqui
(10,131 posts)Irish_Dem
(48,097 posts)brush
(53,978 posts)for decades, as well as it being a military threat to the US, NATO and Europe, perhaps for decades, not to mention the end of Putin.
We will therefore be able to concentrate on China as out prime military adversary. You'd think DeSantis, wanting to run for president, would have at least a rudimentary grasp on the US and our allies role in geopolitics.
Guess DeSantis and the rest of the anti-Ukraine boobs are more enamored with Putin than waning to render him a loser who the Kremlin insiders will dispose of quickly when the war is lost.
Eyeball_Kid
(7,440 posts)So he's making overtures to Putin. He doesn't care about Ukraine. He never did. He cares about money and he knows that Putin will pour money into his shirt if DeSantis says the right words. So DeSantis DID say the right words, and NO ONE will be able to keep track of the tens of millions in dark money that will be cascading into the DeSantis coffers. It will come from Russia.
70sEraVet
(3,548 posts)Russia and FOX.
Irish_Dem
(48,097 posts)He is an autocrat and sides with China and Russia.
Gore1FL
(21,177 posts)you don't know anything about foreign policy.
Freethinker65
(10,116 posts)are battling history classes in school, books with gay and minority characters from school shelves, denying medical care to a subset of the population, Disney, mask wearers, reporters and bloggers that disagree with him, etc.
Mysterian
(4,603 posts)Nothing he says could increase my contempt for him.
How sad that people voted for such a depraved person to be their governor. But the fact is there are tens of millions of depraved people in the USA who would throw away their freedom to install a hateful, fascist dictatorship.
andym
(5,447 posts)Would be able to tag him as soft on Russia-- anti-American in debates. Argument comes down to not stopping Russian aggression now, means possibly American boys and girls will have to fight them later.
ShazzieB
(16,660 posts)Right after the Orange Hellbeast.
RobinA
(9,909 posts)decide that Russia isn't a threat? Weren't a bunch of presidents mired in Vietnam because they didn't want Repubs to call them soft on Communism? Do these people have any actual ideas that they stick with?
Dustin The Wind
(30 posts)I hope he's just blowing smoke up the asses of the TrumPutinists.
kimbutgar
(21,285 posts)I seem to remember a similar demagogue invading Poland.
Stfu defascist.
republianmushroom
(13,900 posts)Cha
(298,086 posts)Marcuse
(7,561 posts)BidenRocks
(829 posts)Biglinda 52
(25 posts)......another Russian asset...with a tan.
sakabatou
(42,204 posts)Wonder Why
(3,337 posts)Or give it to the Hurricanes or the Seminoles. Hey, if the U.S. Government gives the central part including the Orlando area to the remaining Seminole people with full rights to administer it as an independent nation, they would own DisneyWorld and could collect tolls from all Floridians going beck and forth.
In our area, we spray for Floridians and other invasive insects every summer but they keep returning.
Yavin4
(35,455 posts)Grins
(7,263 posts)What a bag of phlegm.
LudwigPastorius
(9,264 posts)Somebody needs to see if Ron's got an offshore account being stuffed with money.
moondust
(20,028 posts)Gotta wonder if these GZPers against aid to Ukraine are pandering for Putin's interference in their coming elections.
dchill
(38,626 posts)Title edited for accuracy.
tonekat
(1,836 posts)MSNBC showed some videos of him absolutely making pro-Ukraine statements in the not too distant past. It would be nice if they were more widely shown to illustrate his hypocrisy.