But if the Russians gave war guarantees to Mexico and began arming and training Mexican troops, would any Russian assurance diminish our determination to run them out of our hemisphere?....Offering NATO memberships to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and, as some urge, Ukraine is rashness bordering on madness. - Patrick J. Buchanan, A Republic, Not An Empire: Reclaiming America’s Destiny (Regnery Publishing, 1999) p. 18, 22