{"id":54415,"date":"2023-03-15T00:38:43","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T00:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54415"},"modified":"2023-03-15T00:38:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T00:38:43","slug":"ukraine-war-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54415","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s no &#8216;territorial dispute&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Ron DeSantis has provided a grotesque misrepresentation of the war that is raging between two nations in eastern Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida governor and pending Republican presidential candidate calls the war between Ukraine and Russia a &#8220;territorial dispute&#8221; that does not deserve the United States&#8217;s commitment to shoring up Ukraine against the Russians.<\/p>\n<p>Wow! For the record, I intend to look back briefly at what happened in February 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Russia invaded Ukraine, intending to overthrow the government in Kyiv and installing a pro-Kremlin puppet to replace Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. It wasn&#8217;t a territorial dispute. It was a blatant, flagrant attempt to overthrow a sovereign government.<\/p>\n<p>What has commenced is a war between democracy and autocracy.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, the United States has a compelling interest to stand beside Ukraine as it fights for its survival against forces launched by Russian strongman Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>So, for DeSantis to suggest that the war is anything less than what it is &#8212; an intense ideological struggle between good and evil &#8212; is to appeal only to the MAGA base of what passes for his Republican Party.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis is demonstrating a disgusting fealty to Putin and his ham-handed view of governance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ron DeSantis has provided a grotesque misrepresentation of the war that is raging between two nations in eastern Europe. The Florida governor and pending Republican presidential candidate calls the war between Ukraine and Russia a &#8220;territorial dispute&#8221; that does not deserve the United States&#8217;s commitment to shoring up Ukraine against the Russians. Wow! For the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54415\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It&#8217;s no &#8216;territorial dispute&#8217;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2696,7018,9758,9899,9908],"class_list":["post-54415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-kremlin","tag-putin","tag-ron-desantis","tag-ukraine-war","tag-zelenskyy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54416,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54415\/revisions\/54416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}