“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 was right.
LOL. You miss President Trump’s point entirely. His entire point was you can’t negotiate with someone you’re disrespecting. Calling that country a Gas Station with Nuclear Weapons is not a position from which you can engage in fruitful discussions. Trump is well-versed in the Art of the Deal.
Negotiation is something the man is astute at. There is a reason he avoided WAR during his term though he was attacked 24/7/365 by the Deep State, the dems and RINO’s of his own party. His praising dictators fed their ego’s. Put them in a position where they were willing to listen and talk.
Desantis’ copycat rhetoric of McCain and Romney is indeed completely counterproductive.
>> Calling that country a Gas Station with Nuclear Weapons <<
Your entire argument, while probably reading Trump correctly, is based on a lie. DeSantis never called Russia that. He called Putin that. So it’s Trump who’s making it difficult for a future DeSantis presidency to negotiate with Russia by lying to the Russians about him.
I was commenting about DeSantis’s initial position not his flipped statement.
“After calling the Russia-Ukraine war a ‘territorial dispute,’ DeSantis says Putin is a ‘war criminal’ and ‘basically a gas station with a bunch of nuclear weapons’”