John J. Mearsheimer: The Ukraine Crisis is the West's fault
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Khrushchev violated the century old Monroe Doctrine trying to put missiles into Cuba. People forget that part as well. And it wasn’t the first time the United States was willing to go to war with a European power over their meddling in the Western Hemisphere.
He did violate the Monroe Doctrine.
Which is just the US asserting its right to keep other countries out. It's not any sort of law. Putin can also say that he doesn't want NATO at his borders, and that would have equal validity.
And the other counties who just gained independence after a half century of occupation might not give a damn what Their former occupiers wanted too…
I am not sure you can refer to a region that was under Russian control between 1720 (or thereabouts) and 1991 as being 'occupied'.
An occupation is an occupation regardless of length, especially when some of those countries had periods of individual statehood.