False. We do respect other countries' borders except when a country's regime chose to treat its citizens or a segment of its citizens in a brutal way, Georgia did not mistreat the South Ossetians who just wanted a closer tie with Russia than be governed by the Tbilisi government. We did not intervene there. Russia did. We intervened in Bosnia and Kosovo to stop the Serb's brutal ethnic cleansing of the Muslim residents. The Iraq war and perhaps the Vietnam war were mistakes made by neoconservatives who wanted to prevent Saddam Hussein from having WMD (which was not found) and to prevent the Communist North Vietnamese from overrunning South Vietnam. Putin, on the other hand, does not respect any other country's borders nd sovereignty. He just wants to bring them under Russia's control as in the Soviet time. He is, after all, a KGB thug who is used to be one of the top dogs in East Germany.