Ron DeSantis says protecting Ukraine is not a 'vital' U.S. interest

[AZLD4Candidate]

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 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 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.

Read more: https://www.aol.com/news/ron-desantis-says-protecting-ukraine-030911355.html

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Go piss up a rope. Defending democracy IS in our national interest.

[oldsoftie]

1. "Territorial dispute". I guess thats how the idiots will phrase it now.

That implies Ukraine isnt a country.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. "Why defend democracy there when I and Republicans are destroying it here?", he might say. . . nt

[Timeflyer]

22. Yup--he's got his hands full turning Florida fascist.

[DemocraticPatriot]

47. You nailed it +1000000

[Aussie105]

2. Guess what?

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]

3. DeSantis Neville Chamberlain moment. . . . nt

[Grokenstein]

9. Funny how things change, eh?

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]

12. 1930s Rs resisted combatting Germany (Lindberg) while Ds supported UK

FDR and the Democratic Party were proven right then.

JRB and the Democratic Party are right now.

[DemocraticPatriot]

49. Funny how they also stay the same...

the biggest isolationists prior to World War II were Republicans....

[Snoopy 7]

56. Don't forget

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]

4. Oh, so now the moronic governor of FL is an expert on international relationships, etc.

[Delphinus]

42. He

is full of sh&t.

[gibraltar72]

6. Ron d SANTIS why fight them now on the cheap by proxy

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]

7. Shut the hell up Ron!

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]

43. DeSantis is holding out the basket toward Putin.

"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]

52. Same with Orban

In fact, really he probably likes Orban as well

[CousinIT]

8. Ron DeSantis says Democracy is not a vital US interest.

There. I fixed it.

[Lonestarblue]

10. No Republican believes anymore that democracy is a vital interest. Authoritarianism is their

new vial interest, under which they can establish the s as a theocracy governed for the beliefs of white evangelicals.

[Mike Nelson]

11. Well...

... 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]

17. Then when it finally affects their rights they whine like a bunch of babies

This is getting old.

[KPN]

20. That's the essence of it all ... they really don't like giving everyone

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]

13. DeSatan is NOT

a "vital" US citizen!

He should emigrate to Russia, where he belongs.

[rurallib]

14. wonder at what point it becomes 'vital' to the US?

Poland? Finland? The Baltic. states? East Germany? The Czech Republic?

[Achilleaze]

15. G.O.P.'s Sleepy Surrender Weasels like Tiny D are eager...

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]

16. He's trying to be a better russian asset than trump

Desatan must need the campaign money and social media support from a terrorist state. What an asshole.

[Botany]

18. Yup! He is now Fox News' new golden boy and in doing so he will get Russian "help" in ...

.... 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]

19. Republicans love russia!

They want to be just like russia.

[Irish_Dem]

29. Yes the GOP wants total permanent power, control, wealth like Putin has in Russia.

[Cha]

40. They Should Move to Russia.

[The Jungle 1]

57. I am gonna use that it is a good line.

[IronLionZion]

21. Protecting America from "woke" is vital apparently

[lark]

23. Because he thinks Democracy is not vital to the US.

He thinks christofascism is the way to go, democracy is so yesterday to him and his ilk.

[Jarqui]

24. Ron "Vlad, can you give me hand like you did Donald?" ..nt

[Irish_Dem]

28. Exactly, DeSantis is asking China and Russia to install him into the WH.

[brush]

25. These idiots don't realize if Russia loses, that's the end of Russia's economy...

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]

44. DeSantis doesn't care about any of it. He cares about pulling in the Trump fascists.

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]

26. DeSantis is appealing to two anti-American forces in his bid for the US Presidency -

Russia and FOX.

[Irish_Dem]

27. Defending democracy is not a vital interest for DeSantis.

He is an autocrat and sides with China and Russia.

[Gore1FL]

30. Hey Ron!, Say you don't know anything about foreign policy without saying

you don't know anything about foreign policy.

[Freethinker65]

31. What do you expect from a Governor of Fl who thinks his own State's priorities

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]

32. DeSantis is human garbage

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]

33. Good to get him on the wrong side of this issue from a patriotism POV

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]

34. DeSatan is #2 on my list of people who need to be yeeted into the sun.

Right after the Orange Hellbeast.

[RobinA]

35. Since When Did Repubs

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]

36. Ugh!

I hope he's just blowing smoke up the asses of the TrumPutinists.

[kimbutgar]

37. Obviously he doesn't know history

I seem to remember a similar demagogue invading Poland.

Stfu defascist.

[republianmushroom]

38. DeSantis has his head up his rectum.

[Cha]

39. Oh YES it is, deStupid.

[Marcuse]

41. It's the border of the free world, you twit!

[BidenRocks]

45. This is why schoolbooks are made in Texas! nt

[Biglinda 52]

46. Follow the money....

......another Russian asset...with a tan.

[sakabatou]

48. So how many rubles has DeSatan taken in?

[Wonder Why]

50. Protecting Florida is not a "vital" U.S. Interest. Give it back to Spain. Build a Wall, Biden!

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]

51. Putin is cutting that campaign donation check as we speak. n/t

[Grins]

53. Even PUTIN doesn't call it a "territorial dispute."

What a bag of phlegm.

[LudwigPastorius]

54. DeSantis Putin's New Golden Boy/Agent of Chaos

Somebody needs to see if Ron's got an offshore account being stuffed with money.

[moondust]

55. Begging Pooty for election help?

Gotta wonder if these GZPers against aid to Ukraine are pandering for Putin's interference in their coming elections.

[dchill]

58. Ron DeSantis is not a 'vital' U.S. interest.

Title edited for accuracy.

[tonekat]

59. I saw him singing a different tune

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.