Huh?
Tell this to Moldova….
Tell this Poland….
Actually?
The Russian’s DO think they are NOW fighting NATO….
The Florida Governor is NO Foreign Affairs observer….(Like Trump?)
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, responding to the surprise news that President Joe Biden had arrived in Kyiv, downplayed Russia’s military threat to greater Europe on Monday as “third-rate” and criticized the administration’s aid to Ukraine as a “blank-check policy.”
“The fear of Russia going into NATO countries and all that and steamrolling, you know, that has not even come close to happening,” the Republican governor said on Fox’s “Fox & Friends,” appearing from New York. “I think they’ve shown themselves to be a third-rate military power.”…
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The war also prompted Finland and Sweden to apply to join NATO, the Western military alliance. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday urged the expansion to be accepted, speaking in Turkey — one of the holdout states for ratification. Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin said last month she believed that Ukraine would not have been invaded if her country had been a member of NATO.
DeSantis, who is considered a likely candidate for the Republican presidential nomination next year, criticized Biden and his administration for visiting Ukraine instead of focusing on other priorities….
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Moldova’s pro-European Union government resigned this month following pressure from Russia, though its Parliament soon approved another pro-Western prime minister. Moldovan President Maia Sandu said earlier this month that Russia wanted to stage a coup in her country; Zelenskyy said days earlier that Russia planned to “destroy” Moldova….