Gov. Ron DeSantis continues to urge restraint when it comes to American troop commitments on the behalf of Israel.
Asked on Monday night whether the United States should take an active role in supporting Israeli offensives against their enemies, DeSantis suggested that the U.S. shouldn’t get “enmeshed” in the Middle Eastern war, given the looming threat of China, which DeSantis has consistently said is America’s major strategic competitor at present.
“I think that we have to be careful about getting enmeshed in a war in the Middle East, partially because China is really going to take advantage of this situation and you just find yourself $33 trillion in debt as it is (with) a very weakened defense industrial base,” DeSantis said on Newsmax Monday night.
The Governor alleged that President Joe Biden “not leading on anything … is an invitation for Chinese aggression.”
“We’ve got to be careful about how that plays out, but I do think Israel is, is capable of defending itself the way it needs to in this situation without needlessly provoking some type of wider war,” DeSantis added.
This is the second time in recent days in which DeSantis has tried to put limits on how far American forces would go.
During a NewsNation interview last week, he was asked specifically about “Special Forces,” and while the Governor didn’t rule that out either, he stressed that any U.S. military entanglement would be “classified and secret.”
“Or others who can be involved in hostage rescue attempts and there may be something where this is being done by Israel and that wouldn’t be necessary,” DeSantis said. “All that, of course, would be something that would be classified and secret as it should be.”
Though DeSantis left the door open to the American military being engaged in “hostage rescue attempts,” he stressed then that any engagement should necessarily be in a limited, support role, and that “you wouldn’t see ground troops fighting in Israel if I were President.”
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