Knives Out For DeSantis: Top Republicans Rage Over His Comments About Ukraine

At the outset, the Republican Party establishment was furious Florida Governor Ron DeSantis After he said that Ukraine was not in the U.S.’s vital interests, Tucker Carlson asked him if the White House should try to broker peace rather than offering an offer of peace. “blank check.”

Carlson, Fox News host We asked several potential candidates for the 2024 GOP presidency to answer our questions. They were asked a dozen questions, one of which was about Ukraine. His Answer of 369 words on Ukraine, DeSantis wrote that a secure southern border, military readiness, energy independence, and countering the threat posed by the Chinese Communist Party are among the nation’s vital national interests, but becoming further entangled in a “territorial dispute” The border between Russia and Ukraine is not.

“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,” Carlson was informed by DeSantis. “Without question, peace should be the objective.”

DeSantis has previously criticized the Biden government, which pledged at most $113 billion in aid for Ukraine. “blank check” There is little to no accountability as to how the money is spent. His expanded comments in the answer-to-Carlson put him at odds to GOP hawks including potential 2024 rivals Nikki Haley and Chris Christie. He also clashed with Republican Senators Marco Rubio of Florida, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Thom Tillis of North Carolina, and John Cornyn of Texas.

Trump also criticised DeSantis’ response, which drew fire from Trump, who like DeSantis called for peace but has been increasingly critical of DeSantis since polls show them at the top of the 2024 polls. Trump Claim DeSantis had “flip-flop[ped]” This is based upon remarks he made in 2015. He said these comments seven years ago, which was seven years before Russia’s current invasion.

Trump made the 2015 remarks after Russia took Crimea from President Viktor Yanukovych, a pro-Russian Ukraine leader. DeSantis, who was a congressman and served on the House Foreign Affairs Committee at the time, urged the White House to provide arms to Ukraine in order to help the country defend itself. DeSantis said in his most recent comments that the U.S. should not stop arms shipments to Ukraine. But, those weapons should only serve to defend Ukrainian territory and not launch attacks into Russia.

Haley, a former governor of South Carolina and U.N. ambassador, charged DeSantis with imitating Trump’s stance.

“President Trump is right when he says Governor DeSantis is copying him — first in his style, then on entitlement reform, and now on Ukraine,” Haley said that Carlson did not respond to her questions. “I have a different style than President Trump, and while I agree with him on most policies, I do not on those. Republicans deserve a choice, not an echo.”

Christie, an ex-Gouvernor of New Jersey, ran for President in 2016. criticized DeSantis claimed that the Florida governor “sounds like Neville Chamberlain talking about when Germany had designs on Czechoslovakia.”

Sen. Marco Rubio (R.FL), also ran in 2016. Not noted Hugh Hewitt interviewed DeSantis. “doesn’t deal with foreign policy every day as governor.”

“I don’t know what he’s trying to do or what the goal is,” Rubio said. “I can’t compare that to something else he did or has said over the last few years, because he doesn’t deal with it every day. But I will say to you that in terms of my view of the overall issue is I think there’s nuance, because foreign policy is about nuance.”

DeSantis told Carlson the U.S. objective in Ukraine should be establishing peace. According to DeSantis, the U.S. “should not provide assistance that could require the deployment of American troops or enable Ukraine to engage in offensive operations beyond its borders,” Warning that direct conflict between Russia and the U.S. could lead to nuclear warfare

“That risk is unacceptable,” He stated.

DeSantis claimed that Russia regime change was a priority for him. “DC foreign policy interventionists,” Also, it increases the risk of nuclear war because the stakes are higher. He stated that the removal of Vladimir Putin, Russian President, could also lead to an even worse regime at Moscow.

DeSantis also blamed Biden’s policies for driving Russia, China and the alliance.

However recent polls have shown Americans support for funding the war on Ukraine. The establishment Republicans, Biden administration and Democrats within Congress all support Ukraine’s effort against the Russian invasion. Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell calls the war in Ukraine the “War on Terror.” “most important” America faces a major problem. Biden’s administration is not interested in trying to broker peace, insisting that the U.S. will finance Kyiv for “As long as it takes.”

Graham called for Russian military planes to be shot down after they downed a U.S. drone. Christie echoed Christie’s comparison of DeSantis and Chamberlain, the British prime minister from World War II who was known for his insistence on appeasing Nazi Germany.

Cornyn stated that he was “disturbed” DeSantis’ position.

“I think he’s a smart guy. I want to find out more about it, but I hope he feels like he doesn’t need to take that Tucker Carlson line to be competitive in the primary,” Cornyn said. “It’s important for us to continue to support Ukrainians for our own security.”

Tillis claimed that the U.S. is bound by the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, as well as alleged Russian war crimes. Cheney, a former House member from Wyoming, who was made a pariah for her war against Trump, claimed DeSantis. “forgotten the lessons of Ronald Reagan.”

“This is not ‘a territorial dispute,'” Cheney stated. “Weakness is provocative and American officials who advocate this type of weakness are Putin’s greatest weapon.”

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