Does Russia have the right to apply policies equivalent to the US' own Monroe Doctrine, or doesn't it? No country has a "right" to apply the Monroe Doctrine, a

Does Russia have the right to apply policies equivalent to the US' own Monroe Doctrine, or doesn't it? No country has a "right" to apply the Monroe Doctrine, anywhere, of course. The idea that we should defend or empathize with (or "understand") Russia's current smash-and-grab operation underway in Ukraine, based on a perceived similarity between its actions and whatever bad things other empires have done, way back when -- I find to be really quite bizarre. Why do you think Russia doesn't have that right, when the USA does? I don't think the US has any such right -- and I find it quite strange that pretend to "know" that I would.