{"id":1854347,"date":"2023-02-20T16:48:49","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T21:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1854347"},"modified":"2023-02-20T16:49:51","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T21:49:51","slug":"not-acceptable-desantis-slams-biden-for-handing-ukraine-a-blank-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/not-acceptable-desantis-slams-biden-for-handing-ukraine-a-blank-check\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Not Acceptable\u2019: DeSantis Slams Biden For Handing Ukraine A \u2018Blank Check\u2019\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnot-acceptable-desantis-slams-biden-for-handing-ukraine-a-blank-check%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1854347&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>On Monday&#8217;s Fox and Friends interview, Ron DeSantis, Florida Governor, blasted President Joe Biden over his decision to give Ukraine an &#8220;A&#8221; rating. &#8220;blank check,&#8221; Gallivanting about Ukraine, while the U.S. borders are in disarray and the United States is involved in an alarming proxy battle with China.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WATCH: Gov. Ron DeSantis claims the U.S. has no &#8220;interest&#8221; Participate in &#8220;proxy war,&#8221; Slams &#8220;blank checks&#8221; From Biden admin, Ukraine<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What is the strategic objective? [\u2026] Just saying it&#8217;s an open-ended blank check [to Ukraine] is unacceptable.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aXq7g4Epnz\">pic.twitter.com\/aXq7g4Epnz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Florida&#8217;s Voice (@FLVoiceNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FLVoiceNews\/status\/1627677033747689473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 20, 2023<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>On Monday, President Biden\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/3866266-biden-announces-500m-in-new-military-aid-to-ukraine-during-surprise-visit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced<\/a>\u00a0the U.S. would be providing half a billion dollars in military aid to Ukraine (that&#8217;s in addition to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crfb.org\/blogs\/congress-approved-113-billion-aid-ukraine-2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$113 billion<\/a> we&#8217;ve already given). According to DeSantis, Biden&#8217;s &#8220;blank check&#8221; policy with Ukraine is not only irresponsible but dangerous. &#8220;They have effectively a blank check policy with no clear, strategic objective identified, and these things can escalate, and I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s in our interests to be getting into a proxy war with China, getting involved over things like the borderlands or over Crimea,&#8221; DeSantis said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So I think it would behoove them to identify what is the strategic objective that they&#8217;re trying to achieve,&#8221; he continued, &#8220;but just saying it&#8217;s an open-ended blank check, that is not acceptable.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis also heavily criticized Biden&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/02\/20\/politics\/biden-ukraine-zelensky-visit-one-year-war-anniversary-intl-hnk\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">surprise visit<\/a>&#8221; to Ukraine \u2014 a trip that&#8217;s awarded the president melodramatic praise from the corporate press, Even though it is pretty transparently a publicity stunt to cover for the president&#8217;s disastrous handling of the Chinese spy balloon and the East Palestine chemical leak. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s very concerned about those borders halfway around the world. He&#8217;s not done anything to secure our own border here at home,&#8221; said DeSantis. &#8220;We&#8217;ve had millions and millions of people pour in, tens of thousands of Americans dead because of fentanyl, and then, of course, we just suffered a national humiliation of having China fly a spy balloon clear across the continental United States.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, upon taking office, Biden dismantled former President Donald Trump&#8217;s border security provisions and reinstated the Obama-era catch-and-release system, causing a massive spike in illegal immigration and, consequently, human and drug trafficking.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis also noted that the war in Ukraine may never have started had Biden not shown so much weakness in office, particularly in his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/top-biden-officials-answer-deadly-failures-afghanistan-oversight-gop-widens-probe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">embarrassing and deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan.<\/a>\u00a0&#8220;I don&#8217;t think any of this would have happened but for the weakness that the president showed during his first year in office, culminating, of course, in the disastrous withdrawal in Afghanistan,&#8221; DeSantis said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/3864815-blinken-claims-china-strongly-considering-providing-russia-with-lethal-assistance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">According<\/a> to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, there are growing concerns that\u00a0China is sending aid to Russia\u00a0via a form of &#8220;lethal assistance,&#8221; and it could further impact the United States&#8217; increasingly antagonistic relationship with China.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis notes that Russia has proven it is not a serious threat to America. The real threat is China, and putting America in a proxy war with China is a dangerous game to play. &#8220;The fear of Russia going into NATO countries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Governor Ron DeSantis slammed Biden for handing Ukraine a &#8216;blank check&#8217; and involving the U.S. in a dangerous proxy war with China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1623,"featured_media":1854350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[10108,7446,19172,3620,5335,4980,16040,3944,6991],"class_list":["post-1854347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-blank","tag-not","tag-acceptable","tag-biden","tag-check","tag-desantis","tag-handing","tag-slams","tag-ukraine"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1854347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1854350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1854347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1854347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1854347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}