never had the kind of devastates world wars we saw as a result of germ aggression or possibility of soviet russia aggression in aftermath of world war ii, it has gone far afield and outside of europe, we need european partners in nato to focus on european security. because united states has to increasingly focus on china as worst threat to international security instability. mark: in 1994 ukraine gave up its nuclear arms. because russia wanted them back. after the soviet union collapsed as a result of reagan s foreign policies, ukraine broke off as did all captive states. and so ukraine agreed to