> Imagine if you will, Mexico wanted to join China's security umbrella and it was receiving Chinese troops, tanks, hardware right across the US-Mexico border. N

> Imagine if you will, Mexico wanted to join China's security umbrella and it was receiving Chinese troops, tanks, hardware right across the US-Mexico border. Next Canada joins the party. Imagine how much raping, murdering and pillaging the US would have to do beforehand to force Canada seek isolation from the US at all cost. Whataboutists always seem to forget Russia's past actions. EE countries seeking security guarantees is not something that happened in vacuum.