Ukraine invited the US, and other allies, to assist them. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this.



Whether Russia likes it or not, Ukraine is NOT THEIRS. They do not get to decide what military allegiances Ukraine has, who goes there, who trains their military or who assists their people and government.



This is the fundamental problem with the thinking in Russia, and here amongst those resolutely critical of everything the US does - Ukraine does not belong to Russia. It does not have a say, it does not have any right to be dictating to any country who they can or cannot associate with.



The Russian mentality is that they have a "right" to all these territories, that they should all bow down to Putin and the Kremlin, that they are satellite states of the former USSR and somehow this gives them some claim of ownership. Let me say it again, Ukraine is a sovereign nation and Russia has absolutely no right to be b**ching about the US assisting an ally against an occupation and invasion of their territory.



And here's a novel idea... maybe, just maybe, if you don't want the US on "your doorstep", stop invading other countries, threatening other countries, and forcing those countries to move closer to the west for defensive reasons. Maybe if Putin had not invaded Ukraine and stolen a chunk of their territory, all these former Soviet states would not all now be clambering to get support from the rest of the world.