DeSantis: “We’d Flatten The Bahamas In Five Minutes”

Florida Politics reports:

Florida’s Governor continues to flesh out the seemingly unlikely scenario of a Bahamian attack on the United States, saying it wouldn’t take long to make residents of the island archipelago regret it.

“If people were firing rockets from the Bahamas into like Fort Lauderdale, we would never allow that. I mean, we would flatten them. Within like five minutes, we would flatten them,” he said in Eldridge on Sunday.

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.

Read the full article. Today marks at least the third time that DeSantis has publicly fantasized about blowing the Bahamas to oblivion. But this is the first time he’s given a duration of the bombardment.

.@RonDeSantis now says it would take ‘five minutes’ to ‘flatten’ the Bahamas if they attacked Florida

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