Do you understand what the Monroe Doctrine is and its almost two centuries of enforcement? The United States considers any such outside meddling in our hemisphere as an act of war against the United States itself. Yet Russia is supposed to relax as a hostile alliance seeks to encircle it with forces along its borders? Who has been provoking whom for the past twenty years?
Russia promised to honor Ukraines borders in the Budapest Memorandum 20 years ago.
They broke that promise.
Anyway here's the FreeReign Doctrine.
Russia can't annex Ukraine, Georgia..any country.
US can't annex Canada, Mexico...any country.
Beyond all of that any country as the inalienable right to ask anybody to help DEFEND itself.
Do you understand inalienable rights.
Apparently you think they have been delightful global partners at some point in the past.
Got news for you......lol
This entire mess is due to Russia's strategic desire to wake the “Bear” from it's 20 year sleep.
There is not a single country in the region that wants that to happen because they have memories that are not all that old.
For the US to turn it's back while a past and present foe tries to rebuild it's power base and black sea fleet, and resume it's longer term strategic goals using it's signature threat and intimidation model, would be just about the dumbest move ever made by any western power.
Grandpa but you see, Canada will never join an anti-American alliance... why ? Because It doesn't feel threatened by America... why ? Because civilized countries usually get along well.
Russia's only allies are shitty dictatorships, often installed by Russians themselves. The whole idea of “it's our fault, we have been provoking them” is nonsense. NATO was expanded because the whole bunch of countries was begging to be allowed in. Why ? Because they felt threatened by Russia, which found their independent existence alone to be provocative. And they were proved right, at this point Estonia would have been very likely re-annexed Crimean style If they weren't a part of NATO.