Posted on 03/22/2023 6:11:33 PM PDT by McGruff
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis sought to clean up comments where he called Russia's brutal war on Ukraine a 'territorial dispute' after drawing rebukes against 'isolationism' but praise from Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
'Well, I think it's been mischaracterized. Obviously, Russia invaded — that was wrong. They invaded Crimea and took that in 2014 — That was wrong,' DeSantis told Piers Morgan in an interview more than a week after his initial comments.
He also rolled out tough talk against Russian President Vladimir Putin, calling him a 'war criminal' and saying he should be 'held accountable,' while dissing Russia as 'basically a gas station with a bunch of nuclear weapons' during a week when Putin huddled with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Moscow.
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Sounds like he’s through trying to be MAGA and is back to what his DONORS demand of him.
Oh well, it was fun while it lasted...hope he likes the weather in Florida!
I doubt they’re actually ‘his’ statements. Trump has donors but not megadonors/handlers. That’s likely what this is.
I hate to be picky but Russia gave us a run for our money during the cold war. They have a rich cultural history and in any event it is not statesmanlike to call them a gas station with nukes.
Must have been a money tree drought here in the Sunshine State.
Quoting McCain is not a winning strategy.
Another Fng neocon jackass in the making?
NO damn Thanks👎🏻
Putin “held accountable”
fat chance
I’m beginning to feel like DeSantis, who used to seem like a fairly authentic man, has started listening to “advisors” recommended by the ever-more-woke RNC. This is not a good path for him to take.
Whoops!
LOL
It’s just a little misunderstanding.
Yep...keep your eyes and ears wide open folks. Ask questions...and lots of them.
Yep...keep your eyes and ears wide open folks. Ask questions...and lots of them.
To be accurate, it was the Soviet Union not Russia, that "gave us a run for our money".
it is not statesmanlike to call them a gas station with nukes.
Maybe its not statesmanlike, but its accurate
“DeSantis’ Ukraine u-turn...”
This is the Deep State telling DeSantis that he has no chance becoming the GOP nominee UNLESS he kowtows to the globalist money changers and gives fealty to the Golden Calf rulers.
DeSantis has been bought. Watch him become more liberal and stab conservatives in the back, as he goes to Rat states campaigning.
This sounds like Jeb, Rubio, Kasich 2016 trying to “out-Trump Trump”. Cringe.
I really wanted to like this guy but he started to lose me with his silly “throw the elf across the Potomic” line.
This isn’t 2016 anymore and the scripted zingers and clarifications only work for Dims. He needs to do better.
Where’s the guy who was the best governor during Covid?
I don’t think he’s ready for Washington, and for sure Rubio and Jeb!
Meatball Ron has really been flailing lately
I agree with you, but I think it's actually worse than that. It's more than just him listening to advisors. On the matter of Ukraine specifically, DeSantis has been given a "good talking to." In the GOP, a person repudiates the neo-Con warmonger class at his or her peril. DeSantis obviously caved, and almost immediately, by the looks of it.
If the man ever did have any authenticity to his political persona, he's kicked that well and truly to the curb. He's just another pol, who knows what lines can't be crossed. Let's just say that the wellbeing of the American people is not his highest priority. He owes his allegiance to an altogether different tribe.
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