Jim says that Ramaswammy was shameful to call parts of Ukraine really “Russian” but are we really so committed to the idea of preserving borders as drawn by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet in 1954?
Ramaswamy mentions a “strategy of denial” in the Pacific. Elbridge Colby is smiling.
The U.S. is still far ahead in ship quality and expertise, but Haley is correct when she says China has a larger navy when simply counting hulls.
Haley just took the lightest swipe imaginable at DeSantis on fentanyl, which reminds me about the dog that has not yet barked: any kind of real fireworks onstage between Haley and RDS.
“We need to bring this war to an end,” DeSantis says of Russia’s war of conquest in Ukraine. Left unanswered, how? One efficient means of doing so would be to cut off Ukraine, negotiate directly with Russia the terms of Ukraine’s surrender, and impose them on Europe. Another more face-saving remedy would be to increase support for Ukraine’s defense with the goal of altering conditions on the ground and compelling Russia to retrench, compelling the Kremlin to reconsider the viability of its project in Europe. Neither are clean, but one is unthinkably cowardly while the other isn’t.
Someone, probably VR, is going to bring up Haley’s enticing of Chinese investment in SC when she was governor.
Hoping for a nuclear triad question from Hewitt.
“We are not going to send your sons and daughters to Ukraine.”
-DeSantis
Dynamic of this debate so far the same as others—DeSantis doesn’t want to mix it up with anyone, Vivek throwing haymakers for maximum attention, Haley happy to throw it back at him
Ramaswamy’s argument that eastern Ukraine was always really part of Russia is particularly shameless, and shameful.