Posted on 03/22/2023 9:11:09 PM PDT by conservative98
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis toughened his stance on Russian President Vladimir Putin, calling Putin a “war criminal” who should be “held accountable” for the invasion of Ukraine, just days after he claimed the Ukraine war is not a “vital national interest.”
DeSantis angered Republican hawks, Never Trumpers, and neocons less than two weeks ago when he characterized the Ukraine-Russia conflict as a “territorial dispute” that is not a “vital” U.S. interests.
DeSantis told Fox News’s Tucker Carlson:
While the U.S. has many vital national interests — securing our border, addressing the crisis of readiness within our military, achieving energy security and independence, 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.
After DeSantis’s initial comments, Never Trumper Adam Kinzinger (IL) dismissed DeSantis as being “in with the crazies,” and former GOP congresswoman Liz Cheney scolded DeSantis for seemingly forgetting “the lessons of Ronald Reagan.”
However, during an interview with Piers Morgan, DeSantis took a tougher position on the Ukraine conflict. In that interview, set to air on Fox Nation on Thursday, DeSantis branded Putin as a “war criminal” and demanded he be “held accountable” for invading Ukraine.
DeSantis also said his critics “mischaracterized” his use of the phrase “territorial dispute.”
“Well, I think it’s been mischaracterized,” DeSantis said when asked if he regretted using that language. “Obviously, Russia invaded (last year) — that was wrong. They invaded Crimea and took that in 2014 — That was wrong.”
DeSantis clarified that his remarks were about the fighting in Ukraine’s eastern border region.
DeSantis told Morgan:
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Well, that didn't take long. It looks like the Bush donors sent DeSantis to reprogramming class 👇https://t.co/eqShWlFmCg— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) March 22, 2023
Mouthing the same slogans as everyone else.
That’s not the way to distinguish yourself, Ron.
DeSantimonious is trying to out flip flop John Fn Kerry, it appears.
I TOLD YOU SO!!!
Fanatical Putin Stooges Worst Affected
In theory he’s right, but unfortunately the possession of nuclear weapons is a sort of blank cheque for bad actors to do whatever comes into their minds, pretty much, and all the moral outrage in the world, justified or not, will not hold those individuals accountable in this world. Next world, different story. Maybe one of Vlad’s priest buddies can explain, although somehow I doubt it.
Now if Lukashenko had gone in there and done what Putin did, he would be eating pancakes for the rest of his life. Cuz he don’t got them nukes, see?
Get a new tailor, Ron.
What a horrid fit that cheap suit is.
The puppet of the GOPe is struggling.
Ron DeSantis 180°
Possibly. But he understands the 2 biggest threats, Cultural Marxism and Chi Com Communism.Same Marxist virus. Same threat. Russia is a distraction.
Xi was yanking his lapdogso hard that Putin turned blue.
Who ya gonna boogie with when the globalist neocons bring ya to the dance?
But DeSantis led FL red and it would be a shame if he messed that up.
This is not a contradiction.
Talking out of both sides of his mouth...Typical lawyer turned professional politician.
Just like we’ve seen a thousand times before.
Both are true. There is no good guy in this fight.
He is all over the place. He is looking bad.
Seems like DeSantis’ inner GWB has been set loose!
Right out of the gate he falls face first with very inconsistent statements. Not a good sign.
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