Americans have superpower bias. They think that every country can ally and antagonize any other country they want. When you're a buffer state, you don't have th

Americans have superpower bias. They think that every country can ally and antagonize any other country they want. When you're a buffer state, you don't have that privilege. If Mexico started talking about a military alliance with Russia, they would have some American freedom missiles delivered very shortly. Ukraine is Russia's Mexico.