Responding to a questionnaire from Fox News host Tucker Carlson, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) recently accused President Joe Biden of issuing 'a blank check' to Ukraine over the war it is fighting against Russia.
DeSantis, widely regarded as an undeclared front-runner for the Republican Party's 2024 presidential nomination, suggested that this takes the United States too close to a direct confrontation with Russia. The actual U.S. objective, DeSantis said, should be a peace deal, not a Ukrainian military victory."While the U.S. has many vital national interests ... becoming further entangled in a territorial dispute between Ukraine and Russia is not one of them.
Others aren’t convinced of this line of reasoning. DeSantis is clearly skeptical of the current policy, believing the risk of getting into a tussle with the world’s largest nuclear-armed power isn’t worth enabling Ukraine’s maximalist military objectives. To be clear, even if one thinks Ukraine’s objectives are wholly justifiable on a moral level, as I do, they are nonetheless maximalist, given the blood, sweat, tears, and expense required to achieve them.
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