[quadrant]

Pushing NATO into Ukraine is to borrow a phrase “a bridge too far.” No Russian leader - be he Czar, commissar, or president - can tolerate a the penetration of a hostile alliance so deep into the Russian heartland. I have great sympathy for the people of Ukraine, but NATO membership is (or should be) out of the question.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

It would be as if Russia reestablished the Warsaw Pact with Mexico as a member.