By The Financial District
Mar 26, 20231 min
New Hampshire Republican Gov. Chris Sununu has torched defeated former President Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for isolationist views on the war in Ukraine, writing in an op-ed that opposing US aid “is not a viable foreign policy,” Stephen Neukam reported for The Hill.
Photo Insert: DeSantis argued in the same survey that supporting Ukraine was not in the “vital national interests” of the US. The Florida governor also referred to the war as a “territorial dispute.”
“Simply opposing aid to Ukraine because President Biden supports it is not a viable foreign policy,” Sununu, who is mulling a potential presidential run, wrote in The New York Times.
“To abandon Ukraine would set off a negative chain of events for US interests domestically and abroad.”
Trump has been widely criticized for saying the Ukraine invasion was a “savvy” move by Putin, whom he calls a “genius,” and Russian oligarch money has been pumped into losing Trump businesses.
Sununu’s targeting of the rising tide of anti-Ukrainian sentiment in the Republican Party comes after Trump and DeSantis made comments in the past weeks that have stirred controversy on the issue.
Trump said in response to a Fox News survey of declared and potential 2024 presidential candidates that Europe was relying on the US to defend it against Russia, which he said is “unfair to us.”
DeSantis argued in the same survey that supporting Ukraine was not in the “vital national interests” of the US. The Florida governor also referred to the war as a “territorial dispute.”