> i'd ask you to consider that China and her allies, Iran, Turkey, North Korea and Pakistan suddenly moved Radar equipment and denial of airspace missile batter

> i'd ask you to consider that China and her allies, Iran, Turkey, North Korea and Pakistan suddenly moved Radar equipment and denial of airspace missile batteries to Mexico, Canada and Cuba tomorrow. This would be seen as extremely destabilizing. But the key for me is: who agrees to uphold international law, respect borders? The reason Russian missiles in Mexico should worry Americans but NATO forces in Lithuania should not worry Russia is simple: NATO doesn’t have a history of annexing countries. This is no trivial difference. The dialog playing out is really Ru: promise to stop putting forces on our borders NATO: would you promise to never move a border by force in these neighbors? Ru: No. We don’t really recognize “borders” or “sovereignty” of other countries. No war is going to be started here until someone crosses a border.