EXCERPT:
DESANTIS: “Look, I think he’s got grand ambitions. I think he’s hostile to the United States, but I think the thing that we’ve seen is he doesn’t have the conventional capability to realize his ambitions. And so, he’s basically a gas station with a bunch of nuclear weapons. And so, for us, one of the things we could be doing better is utilizing our own energy resources in the United States. We could be permitting natural gas pipelines from Marcellus, doing a lot in Alaska. That’s where he gets all his power, and obviously he’s influenced Europe by having so much energy. So, the way to hit Putin is to hit him with energy. But I do think, you look back, all the defense analysts, and me in the past, we overestimated his conventional capability. This has been a huge blunder for him. Huge costs and we’ll see what ends up happening with his longevity and power, but this has been — this has been a loss for them.”