re: Why are center-right boomers so concerned with Ukraine

Most moderates in both parties hold onto the post-cold war consensus that briefly reigned with a lot of neo-con and neo-lib input, that the US is a force for good in the world, and that foreign policy should be the promotion of human rights and free trade and international law. One of the interesting things about the war in Ukraine is that you can literally see the uni-party moderates agreeing with each other more than their respective bases. Ie the actual right doesn’t want any foreign entanglements, and the hard right actively wants Putin to win because he is a based despot, and the hard left also wants Putin to win because it hurts American imperialism and NATO (an organization which again the right and left oppose and moderates support)