DeSantis has no real objection to Biden’s Ukraine policy but he feels he has to come up with something so that he isn’t simply endorsing the president’s position.
"George H.W. Bush was a mostly successful foreign policy president, and he was arguably one of the best foreign policy presidents of the postwar era"
Bush's foreign policy vis-a-vis the collapsing Soviet Empire and his policy towards Iraq were two very different things. Bush's intervention in Iraq was a serious exercise in petroleum politics, dressed up as a defense of "democracy". Bush explicitly encouraged dissident groups in Iraq to rise up against Saddam, even though his administration had already agreed that Saddam would be kept in power. A million Kurds escaped into Turkey following Bush's "splendid victory". Keeping U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia after the invasion to calm the nervous Saudis led directly to 9/11. If you haven't read Christian Alfonsi's "Circle in the Sand", I recommend it highly.
Ukraine gets another $9.5 billion on top of the $40 billion they got earlier this year, all to non-stop fawning media coverage.
The folks in East Palestine cannot get so much as a hotel voucher, and suffer a near news blackout besides.
This underscores where the Empire's priorities lie.
"George H.W. Bush was a mostly successful foreign policy president, and he was arguably one of the best foreign policy presidents of the postwar era"
Bush's foreign policy vis-a-vis the collapsing Soviet Empire and his policy towards Iraq were two very different things. Bush's intervention in Iraq was a serious exercise in petroleum politics, dressed up as a defense of "democracy". Bush explicitly encouraged dissident groups in Iraq to rise up against Saddam, even though his administration had already agreed that Saddam would be kept in power. A million Kurds escaped into Turkey following Bush's "splendid victory". Keeping U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia after the invasion to calm the nervous Saudis led directly to 9/11. If you haven't read Christian Alfonsi's "Circle in the Sand", I recommend it highly.