Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis clarified his recent comments on the Russia–Ukraine conflict after having called it a mere “territorial dispute.”
In an interview with Piers Morgan on the March 23 edition of the Fox Nation program “Piers Morgan Uncensored”—which Morgan previewed in a New York Post article on March 22—DeSantis said his words had been mischaracterized.
“Obviously, Russia invaded—that was wrong,” said DeSantis. “They invaded Crimea and took that in 2014—that was wrong.”
In his interview with Morgan, the governor was more critical of Russia than in a previous statement he sent to Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, which Carlson published on March 13….