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Tell that to the Ukrainians and Georgians who didn’t ask for all those Russians, and who suffered millions of deaths as a result of Russsian action.

I have no problem doing that. There are limits to what we can do in the world.

NATO was set up as a defensive shield to prevent the Soviet Union from spreading West. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, however, it has shifted it policies and has been trying to move its Eastern border as far East as possible. With each country that is brought on, we have to invest significant resources to support their memberships. They become permanent liabilities for us and future generations.

Georgia brings up another point. How many Americans are we willing to sacrifice if Georgia's out of control president picks a fight with the Russia just to force a NATO response? NATO, of course, claims that NATO membership is stabilizing these new members politically and that the weak governments in Ukraine and Georgia will be better after they join NATO. It certainly has not worked out that way in Latvia.

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NATO has outlived its stated purpose.
It should have been disbanded or severely restrained after the collapse of the USSR.
Russians are naturally paranoid enough.
Pushing for the admittance into NATO of the old Warsaw Pact and Soviet Bloc countries has fed that paranoia.