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Originally Posted by Damien
Well I would like to assume that we wouldn't do anything. I am not sure under what merit we could invade a Foreign country for enacting their democratic rights. Besides I don't think it will happen and, if it did, it wouldn't be so bad anyway. Russia would have to be a very different country for everyone to suddenly be so keen to rejoin the Soviet Union. As a rule people tend not to vote to disenfranchise themselves.
As far as I am concerned the concept of self-determination, the right to decide who governs you and democracy are not just a Western trait and a different way of looking at the world. It's a fundamental right that populations naturally desire or gravitate towards whether it's the fall of the Soviet Union and the subsequent Westward focus of it's former states or the Arab Spring. Few want to go in the other direction.
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Well that's clearly depend on what we perceived the threat to our interests to be and how serious it was. Clearly the US thought missiles in Cuba posed a serious enough risk to their way of life to trump any concerns they had about anything else, including Cuba's right to choose.