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End of debate between you and I.

Unless you believe that the United States or NATO should extend any such help to the government in Kiev. I hold that the future of Ukraine is not our fight and is none of our business.

That would be a new debate.

Quckly...

If the Ukrainian people wanted to be part of NATO, I would extend an invite. However currently, I believe the majority of Ukrainian people don't want to be part of NATO...although that may change given Putin's actions.

I would tell NATO countries that they need to spend more on their own defense.

If I was Ukrainian, I would want to join NATO, I would not want to be annexed by Russia and I would NOT want to be be part of the EU.

NATO has outlived its purpose, which was to defend Western Europe from Soviet invasion. Without that founding purpose since the early 1990s, NATO has embarked upon a rapid expansion to the borders of Russia and is now attempting to spread to Russia's southern flank along the Black Sea. In any historical context this is a provocative and threatening move, and a precursor to war. And no matter how likely or unlikely that war might seem at a given moment, nations must plan their defenses for an uncertain future.

Admission of additional NATO treaty members has only increased the likelihood of unintentional war. Why have we committed American sons and treasure to war on behalf of Slovenia or Bulgaria or Romania? Nothing that can happen in any of those countries will affect our national security, but those nations may now drag us into war over disputes in which we have absolutely no interest. NATO must be disbanded before its treaty drags us into a war that we do not want to fight and should not have to fight.

This permanent war treaty -- which lingers on without its original purpose -- is exactly what George Washington warned against in his Farewell Address. And it was Washington's wisdom which Thomas Jefferson confirmed when he declared "peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none." We would do well to revisit our founders' wise words in these dangerous times.