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DeSantis flip-flopped on aid to Ukraine after previously offering full-throated support for arming Kyiv
We need to make sure Trump or DeSantis or any other isolationist is not president of our country?!!
Continuing to send aid to Ukraine is in the best interest of the US and our European allies too, you stop Russia now or pay a higher price in the future in money and in lives too?!!
One other thing, I don't want to see our country become another Florida either?!!
Ron DeSantis says it's not in the "vital" interests of the US to help Ukraine defend itself from Russia.
The Florida governor's position echoes Trump's rhetoric on the war in Ukraine.
But as a member of Congress in 2015, DeSantis offered strong support for arming Kyiv.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis now argues that helping Ukraine defend itself from Russia's ongoing invasion is not in the of the US. But he was singing a much different tune while he was a member of Congress in 2015, and critical of the Obama administration for not sending lethal aid to Ukraine.
Back then, DeSantis was a Republican hawk who demanded the US send Ukraine weapons as it fought a war against Kremlin-backed rebels in the country's eastern Donbas region, a conflict that was in many ways a prelude to Russia's large-scale invasion last year.
"We in the Congress have been urging the president, I've been, to provide arms to Ukraine. They want to fight their good fight. They're not asking us to fight it for them. And the president has steadfastly refused. And I think that that's a mistake," DeSantis said in a 2015 radio interview with conservative talk radio host Bill Bennett, which was recently unearthed and reported on by CNN.
DeSantis — who is widely expected to run for the GOP presidential nomination in 2024 — at the time said that arming Ukraine would send a "strong signal" to Russian President Vladimir Putin "that he shouldn't be going any further."
The Obama administration was facing criticism in those days over its reluctance to provide anything beyond non-lethal assistance to Ukraine, fearing that sending weapons to Kyiv would exacerbate the conflict and raise tensions with Moscow.
https://news.yahoo.com/desantis-flip-flopped-aid-ukraine-182143975.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
We need to make sure Trump or DeSantis or any other isolationist is not president of our country?!!
Continuing to send aid to Ukraine is in the best interest of the US and our European allies too, you stop Russia now or pay a higher price in the future in money and in lives too?!!
One other thing, I don't want to see our country become another Florida either?!!
Ron DeSantis says it's not in the "vital" interests of the US to help Ukraine defend itself from Russia.
The Florida governor's position echoes Trump's rhetoric on the war in Ukraine.
But as a member of Congress in 2015, DeSantis offered strong support for arming Kyiv.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis now argues that helping Ukraine defend itself from Russia's ongoing invasion is not in the of the US. But he was singing a much different tune while he was a member of Congress in 2015, and critical of the Obama administration for not sending lethal aid to Ukraine.
Back then, DeSantis was a Republican hawk who demanded the US send Ukraine weapons as it fought a war against Kremlin-backed rebels in the country's eastern Donbas region, a conflict that was in many ways a prelude to Russia's large-scale invasion last year.
"We in the Congress have been urging the president, I've been, to provide arms to Ukraine. They want to fight their good fight. They're not asking us to fight it for them. And the president has steadfastly refused. And I think that that's a mistake," DeSantis said in a 2015 radio interview with conservative talk radio host Bill Bennett, which was recently unearthed and reported on by CNN.
DeSantis — who is widely expected to run for the GOP presidential nomination in 2024 — at the time said that arming Ukraine would send a "strong signal" to Russian President Vladimir Putin "that he shouldn't be going any further."
The Obama administration was facing criticism in those days over its reluctance to provide anything beyond non-lethal assistance to Ukraine, fearing that sending weapons to Kyiv would exacerbate the conflict and raise tensions with Moscow.
https://news.yahoo.com/desantis-flip-flopped-aid-ukraine-182143975.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
