The statement Florida governor Ron DeSantis provided Fox News host Tucker Carlson regarding his outlook on Russia’s war against Ukraine and the West’s commitments in that conflict will be finely parsed for months to come. It deserves to be. DeSantis has staked out a position he will struggle to defend and, should he emerge as the GOP nominee next year, potentially represents a significant liability for his campaign.
“While the U.S. has many vital national interests,” DeSantis’s statement began, it has become clear that “becoming further entangled in a territorial dispute between Ukraine and Russia is not one of them.” DeSantis cites the urgent threat posed by the “economic, cultural, and military power of the Chinese Communist Party,” which is presumably going unmet because of the West’s commitments in Europe.
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