DeSantis calls Russia war 'territorial dispute,' suggests Biden curtail Ukraine funding

Potential GOP presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says Russia's invasion of Ukraine is "a territorial dispute" in which the U.S. should not get further entangled and is critical of the Biden administration's vow to continue funding Ukraine's resistance. 

"While the U.S. has many vital national interests ... becoming further entangled in a territorial dispute between Ukraine and Russia is not one of them," DeSantis said, according to a questionnaire on Ukraine published Monday by Fox News host Tucker Carlson.

Among those national interests cited by the governor are securing American borders, U.S. military readiness and the Chinese Communist Party.

"The Biden administration’s virtual 'blank check' funding of this conflict for 'as long as it takes,' without any defined objectives or accountability, distracts from our country’s most pressing challenges," he also about the roughly 13-month-long war.

DeSantis in the questionnaire also reportedly wrote: "Our citizens are also entitled to know how the billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars are being utilized in Ukraine.

"We cannot prioritize intervention in an escalating foreign war over the defense of our own homeland, especially as tens of thousands of Americans are dying every year from narcotics smuggled across our open border and our weapons arsenals critical for our own security are rapidly being depleted."