Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ripped into Vladimir Putin Wednesday, labeling Russia’s head of state an “authoritarian gas station attendant.”
“If you look at their country, it’s a hollowed-out country but for the energy,” the Republican said, referring to the nation currently invading and occupying parts of its western neighbor Ukraine.
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“So, [Putin] is in a situation where his ideology, I think, is to try and reassemble some of the lost glory of what they had” during the days of the Soviet Union, DeSantis said.
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The USSR was by no means a “glorious entity,” and Putin feels that the dissolution of the Soviet Union was a bad thing, according to the governor.
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Europe is bankrolling Russia’s growth under Putin, and the United States is not serious about energy independence, he said.
Russia is putting a tremendous amount of machinery and manpower into Ukraine, but DeSantis believes that holding the nation down is going to be like swallowing a porcupine.
“You’re going to end up with like these Ukrainians engaging in guerrilla warfare, and I think it’s gonna be like death by a thousand cuts,” he said.
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