McCain Tells Ukraine Protesters ‘America Is With You’
This was before the coup.
“If Russia orchestrated a coup in Mexico and tried to get them to reclaim the Southwest, do you think we’d buzz some Russian warships in the Gulf of Mexico?”
1. The United States did not organize a coup in the Ukraine.
2. The only coup which occurred in the Ukraine were those coups conducted by Russia during the past 20 years to put Yanukovych in office through the use of massive vote fraud and other corruption.
3. No, the United States would not violate the standard rules of engagement with Russian warships during peaceful relations, because doing so would result in unintended risk of an incident of naval conflict and a war. The current Russian actions serve as dangerous provocations outside the scope of the well understood standard rules of engagement.
4. Imperial Germany and Imperial Japan previously attempted to enlist Mexico as an ally against the United Stats with a promise of restoring the American Southwest territories to Mexican dominion in return for basing their armies in Mexico. The United States exercised restraint in those cases by establishing a U.S. Naval base for a destroyer squadron at San Diego to overwatch Magdalena Bay in Baja California and conducted the Mexico 1916-1917 14 March 1916-7 February 1917 in addition to the earlier cavalry patrols along the Mexican border searching for German spies and Japanese Army patrols.
McCain Tells Ukraine Protesters ‘America Is With You’
This was before the coup.