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To understand DeSantis' pivot on Ukraine, you must first understand MAGA's pivot on wars we get involved in that don't start with us being attacked, and even then, after Afghanistan, MAGA is very skeptical of wars we get into because we got attacked. We're coming up on the 20-year anniversary of the Iraq War, a war that was mostly fought by and for old school republicans. It turned out that the leaders they had faith in (the Bush admin) were not only wrong about why we went into Iraq, they were…
Don't forget that it was GWB who deliberately didn't ask us to sacrifice stateside (during Iraq). He told us to go shopping, so we fucked off at the mall. This is not in contradiction to your larger point - in fact it probably supports it. Not only did the "volunteer" (coercion of poverty aside) army do all the heavy lifting, we didn't pretend at home that we had any responsibility, either by raising taxes to pay for it or by doing anything else other than saying "thank you for your service" to soldiers when we saw them. And, I still think it's a terrible idea to sacrifice Ukraine to Putin.