Re: Freedom is what Ukraine seeks..

America has several times interfered much farther afield than Mexico, for example, by funding the Contras in Nicaragua, and by plotting the overthrow of Allende. So much for Nicaragua's and Chile's "sovereignty". "If Ukraine seeks NATO membership, Russia has no right whatsoever to invade". So if Mexico decided to join an anti-US military coalition led by China, you would agree that America has no right to interfere? This is not how America operates. It is not how any regionally powerful state operates. States do not permit intolerable security threats to build up on their borders if they can help it. "No rational thinking person believes that NATO would ever intentionally invade Russia." And would no rational thinking person believe that NATO would intentionally bomb Serbia? And yet NATO did bomb Serbia, despite the fact that Serbia was not threatening the territory of any NATO member state. Right now, in countries like Georgia, a battle is going on which is effectively a geopolitical struggle between America and Russia. America can only finally be sure of its regional influence by breaking Russia up into its constituent parts. For Russia, Ukraine's coming into America's orbit is a security threat, and if the West wanted to reassure the Kremlin that it meant no harm to Russia, then maybe expanding NATO, and refusing to consider a broader security structure that included Russia, were not the right moves.