Florida governor and likely presidential candidate Ron DeSantis has said further support for Ukraine is not in America’s “vital national interests”, in a clear break with congressional Republicans that underscores a growing rift between isolationists and hawks that could threaten future aid to Kyiv.
In a statement issued to Tucker Carlson, the firebrand Fox News host who has used his primetime television show to praise Vladimir Putin and cast doubt on US support for Ukraine, DeSantis described the war as a “territorial dispute”, and said that “becoming further entangled” was not in America’s “vital interests”.
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