Last Friday, Democratic Governor of Michigan Gretchen Whitmer appeared on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” where she claimed that Republican Governor of Florida Ron DeSantis was endangering the country by “using rhetoric that comes from the Kremlin.”
“I asked her, you know, Ron DeSantis made many remarks over the course, well, actually in a questionnaire to Tucker Carlson, he made these comments where he called it a territorial problem, which is what Putin calls it, too,” Jen Psaki remarked during her interview with Ron DeSantis. As the governor put it, “You just say what Moscow instructs you to say.”
Psaki said that she thinks Ron DeSantis may be an excellent pick as well. I’ll refer to him as a fellow governor for the time being. Helping Ukraine was not the top priority he outlined for the United States last week. So the question is how you break it to them.
Whitmer warned that it was risky for politicians to parrot the Kremlin’s statements, saying, “I’m not a specialist on foreign affairs.” Claiming that a border dispute prompted Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a poor justification. It’s irritating and insulting to come from an area with a high concentration of Ukrainians, and it poses a serious threat to our national security.