FL Gov. Ron DeSantis told Tucker Carlson's audience he views what is happening in Ukraine as a "border dispute." That has a lot in common with calling a rape a "sexual encounter."
Russia and Ukraine are two products of the geopolitical divorce of the Soviet Union. Russia is acting like the bully ex-husband who says "If I can't have you, nobody can have you. You're with me or you're dead."
Russia wants to own much or all of Ukraine and those living there are fighting like anything to resist being swallowed up. If we let it happen, what awaits other former SSRs or Warsaw Pact members?
The U.S. has a national interest in the principle that nations cannot invade their neighbors and that we side with the invaded. Nobody has suggested we send troops. We view what's happening in Ukraine as the geopolitical equivalent of a violent rape, and the view DeSantis expressed is just plain wrong.
