Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, during an interview announcing his 2024 presidential bid on May 24, said that he hopes for a settlement of the Russia-Ukraine war.
“I want to see a settlement of this,” DeSantis said. “I do not want to see a wider war.”
While he admitted that it’s “unknowable” what the situation could look like come January 2025, DeSantis said, “I do not want to see the U.S. with our troops get meshed in a war in Ukraine.”
In March, the Florida governor caused controversy when he referred to the conflict as a “territorial dispute.”
In response to a question on the conflict delivered to Fox News opinion host Tucker Carlson, DeSantis said that “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.”…