Lonewolf_50, one can look at the 1994 security guarantee for Ukraine as simply a con to get them to give up their nukes, nothing more, nothing less.
Mil-26Man, the places you mention are on the doorstep of Russia, locations Russia is justified in being involved in. When it comes to things like ourselves in places like Iraq and Libya there is a hell of a lot less justification! Not exactly in our own back yard, no real threat to us, the latter had actually come onside in recent years, but still the west had to go and attack the place. Today both those places are far worse than before.