Ron DeSantis went to Japan, ostensibly to sell Florida “freedom” to the Japanese, and said nice things about his hosts. Under normal conditions, this would be utterly unremarkable, but DeSantis is trying desperately to emulate Trump, and Trump thinks foreigners who aren’t autocrats do nothing but screw us over.
Does this mean that a President DeSantis would have a slightly more mainstream foreign policy than Trump, his comments about Russia and Ukraine notwithstanding? Probably. Will he admit it by attacking Trump on that issue? Probably not; it would make him sound too much like a “globalist.”