What's the Message That We're Sending to Zolinski and Ukrane?

i took a lot of criticism, obviously, for the episode i did about the run up the last post cold war history between us and russia. I understand why people don't like it, because it's very hard to go back to when nine 11 happened yonow. But even leaving all that aside, no great power is going to tolerate a military alliance like taking over. We could put offensive s, nuclear weapons and in ukrane if we wanted to,. you know, if they were just fully allied to us, and they're just knot ging to allow that, we wouldn't allow it. You seen that werl we're talking about all options ar ound