
DeSantis questions US diplomatic relationship with 'off-the-rails' Australia over military COVID lockdowns
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Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., questioned if the United States should rethink its diplomatic relationship with Australia given its strict, military-enforced COVID-19 lockdown orders.
"And who knows where we would be right now?" he asked.
"You say, like, ‘It can’t happen here,'" DeSantis continued. "You know, you guys, look what’s going on in Australia right now. You know, they’re enforcing, after a year and a half, they’re still enforcing lockdowns by the military."
"That’s not a free country. It’s not a free country at all. In fact, I mean, I wonder why we would still have the same diplomatic relations when they’re doing that. Is Australia freer than China, communist China, right now? I don’t know. The fact that that’s even a question tells you something has gone dramatically off the rails with some of this stuff."