However, what we should receive is access to build a huge American military base in Eastern Ukraine instead. Forget about NATO. Putin has nothing to say. And, then, we can simply gather up all of OUR unused arsenal, plus all the allied stuff, we can study it, maybe even salvage things, oh, I don’t know, like mines, and park it right there—boom, bitch, a free, fully-stocked, highly-strategic base. That’s something how Caesar would act. And this is also how America has always acted, lend-lease for Caribbean islands—however, we never did get those islands (Bahamas is table scraps for what we did), ever equivocation; or we win a war, we plant a base a la Guantanamo Bay. “If your neighbor’s house is burning, you lend him whatever—and later collect the FEE.” (FDR, paraphrasing—he meant what he said, not to promote vagueness, Leftistism…free American taxpayer piggy bank, fat. Revolution! No taxation without representation!)