Governor Ron DeSantis has been widely and rightly criticised – including by prominent members of his own party – for dismissing the Russian invasion of Ukraine as a “territorial dispute” of little concern to the United States. Yet, while he says countering Russia is not a “vital national interest”, he claims that “checking the economic, cultural, and military power of the Chinese Communist Party” is one. DeSantis worries that US aid to Ukraine could draw us into “a hot war” with a nuclear–armed state, but he expresses no such concern about US aid to Taiwan – even though, in the...