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To: Always A Marine
Do you understand what the Monroe Doctrine is and its almost two centuries of enforcement?

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.

18 posted on 04/26/2014 8:02:44 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: FreeReign
Beyond all of that any country as the inalienable right to ask anybody to help DEFEND itself. Do you understand inalienable rights.

Of course Ukraine has the inalienable right to ask for whatever it wants. But it does not gave the inalienable right to claim that it is another's duty to provide what it asks. Are you just as eager to fight for the inalienable rights of Ugandans, Burmese or North Koreans?

US can't annex Canada, Mexico...any country.

How do you think we got California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah and Colorado? The short answer is that we bought those territories for $18,500,000 in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, but the full answer is that we invaded Mexico in a two year war, occupied the capital of Mexico City, and dictated the treaty's terms to the vanquished Mexican government.

There is nothing that can happen in Ukraine that can threaten the security of the United States, therefore its affairs are none of our business. On the other hand, the alignment of Ukraine is vital to Russia's defense and worth fighting over to Russia. This calculation should be instructive.

I was perfectly willing to fight to protect Great Britain, West Germany, Holland and Italy from Soviet invasion, but I am not willing to waste one American life for Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia or Croatia in some accidental war instigated by our treaty-bound new "allies." The original NATO franchise has been inflated and devalued by the addition of so many new countries that we have no real intention to defend in a fight to the finish.

22 posted on 04/26/2014 11:00:58 PM PDT by Always A Marine
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