Ron DeSantis now says it would take '12 hours' to 'flatten' the Bahamas
Ron DeSantis continues to maintain that the Bahamas would be no match for the United States in the event of armed conflict or insurgent attack.
“If someone was firing missiles from the Bahamas into like Fort Lauderdale, we would never accept that. We would flatten. Anything that happened. It would be done like literally within 12 hours, it would be done,” the 2024 presidential candidate said Saturday in Manchester, New Hampshire.
Despite the need for the U.S. Embassy in Nassau to clarify that his comments don’t reflect American foreign policy, the Governor continues to use this metaphor to draw a parallel between hypothetical attacks on the U.S. from Nassau and the situation in Israel.
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