Hamster Buddha
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No such assurances exist in foreign policy, that's naive.
Is it? Since we went on our Imperialistic phase at the turn of the 20th century, we've since returned control of the Philippines, Panama, France, Germany, Italy( you know what, let's just go with all of Western Europe shall we?), Iraq, Afghanistan, Japan, South Korea, there's much Eastern Europe after the fall of the Wall so that's about what... another ten countries there, I could probably name fifty countries if you push me where we've been involved with militarily only to return power to the people and not try to enforce our will upon them. And by the way, we see the difference between the US allies and, let's say Russia's allies, in the fact that we often have disagreements with our supposed friends because we think of them as equals and not pawns.
Come to think of it, has Russia ever given up a country without having to either lose it militarily or simply not being able to afford it any longer? I'm having a hard time thinking of an example.
Bottom line, that assurance does carry a lot of weight as it has been proven now time and time and time and time and time..... again.