“So, you would be content if this scenario played out, every step of it “legal”.
Don’t put words in my mouth.
“Ultimately, Chinese communist troops, tanks and missiles would be located on our borders, and you would not object.”
Russia put troops, tanks, and missiles on the Ukrainian border. They objected.
“As you know, Ukraine never existed as an independent nation in history before 1991.”
America didn’t exist as a country before 1783. Did that make it okay for the British to burn down DC in 1812?
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Ukraine was shelling the Russians in the Russian Donbass, killing thousands of Russians, from the U.S. sponsored Maidan Coup in 2014 onward.
On the hypothetical map, the U.N. recognizes “Aztlan” as independent. Radicals begin to shell American towns on what used to be our side of the border. Eventually, as America emerges from depression and collapse, the U.S. Army moves into “Independent Aztlan” to stop the shelling.
You would object to this as “illegal.”