{"id":1887619,"date":"2023-03-15T13:14:05","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T17:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-invited-to-ukraine-amid-backlash-over-his-skepticism-of-us-role\/"},"modified":"2023-03-15T13:16:50","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T17:16:50","slug":"desantis-invited-to-ukraine-amid-backlash-over-his-skepticism-of-us-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-invited-to-ukraine-amid-backlash-over-his-skepticism-of-us-role\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis invited to Ukraine amid backlash over his skepticism of US role"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fdesantis-invited-to-ukraine-amid-backlash-over-his-skepticism-of-us-role%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=1887619&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<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<div id=\"Brid_78832277\" class=\"brid\" style=\"width:16; height:9;\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\">                <meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"GOP congressman says Ukraine funding should stay out of debt ceiling talks as rift emerges\">               <meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Ukraine funding levels should not be part of debt ceiling conversations, according to Rep. 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We invite him to visit Ukraine to get a deeper understanding of Russia&#8217;s full-scale invasion and the threats it poses to U.S. interests,&#8221; Nikolenko tweets <\/p>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As a former military officer, we are certain that Governor was deployed to a combat area. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RonDeSantisFL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RonDeSantisFL<\/a> knows the difference between a \u2018dispute&#8217; and war. To gain a better understanding of Russia&#8217;s invasion in its entirety and the threats it poses US interests, we invite him visit Ukraine. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BLLam9G8lV\">https:\/\/t.co\/BLLam9G8lV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Oleg Nikolenko (@OlegNikolenko_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OlegNikolenko_\/status\/1635707773806575624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 14, 2023<\/a>              <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>               <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>              <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>DeSantis joined Navy in 2004 as a legal advisor to Seal Team One. He had earlier gotten into the Ukraine war and called for peace. Tucker Carlson, Fox News&#8217; Tucker Carlson, then pressed him to answer questions from a group of 2024 GOP hopefuls about Ukraine. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While the U.S. has many vital national interests \u2014 securing our borders, addressing the crisis of readiness with our military, achieving energy security and independence, and checking the economic, cultural, and military power of the Chinese Communist Party \u2014 becoming further entangled in a territorial dispute between Ukraine and Russia is not one of them,&#8221; DeSantis replied. <\/p>\n<p>There are many Republicans like Sens. Nikki Haley, 2024 Republican candidate, and Lindsey Graham (R-SC). Roger Wicker, Lindsey Graham (R.SC), and Marco Rubio [R.FL] appeared to differ from DeSantis on Ukraine. This demonstrates the growing divide among conservatives about Ukraine. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to find out more about it, but I hope he feels like he doesn&#8217;t need to take that Tucker Carlson line to be competitive in the primary. It&#8217;s important for us to continue to support Ukrainians for our own security,&#8221; Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/minutes\/congress\/03-14-2023\/rubio-hits-desantis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Telled<\/a> <i>Politico<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p>While some Republicans, such as\u00a0House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX), have urged the U.S. to be supportive of Ukraine, others within the party, such as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), have been skeptical about giving Ukraine a &#8220;blank check.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION FROM THE WASHINGTON XAMINER<\/a><\/b> <\/p>\n<p>DeSantis is not expected to announce his 2024 plans but it is being rumored that he may be considering a campaign launch sometime in the summer. He finished second in a hypothetical GOP primary behind Donald Trump. <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2024\/president\/us\/2024_republican_presidential_nomination-7548.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According<\/a> To the latest <i>RealClearPolitics<\/i> Polling aggregate. <\/p>\n<p>The <i>Washington Examiner<\/i> We reached out to a spokesperson from DeSantis for comment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&#8220;Read More from&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/foreign\/foreign-minister-invites-desantis-ukraine-backlash\">DeSantis invited Ukraine to protest his suspicions about the US role<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px\"><em>&#8220;The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author of the article and not necessarily shared or endorsed by Conservative News Daily&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine\u2019s foreign ministry invited Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) to visit the war-torn nation amid backlash over his comments that &#8220;becoming further entangled in a territorial dispute&#8221; is not in United States interests. Oleg Nikolenko, a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, countered that the war is more than a mere &#8220;dispute&#8221; and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1897242,"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":[538],"tags":[4265,4980,8691,5528,8703,6991],"class_list":["post-1887619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-backlash","tag-desantis","tag-invited","tag-role","tag-skepticism","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\/1887619","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1887619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1897242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1887619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1887619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1887619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}