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60. Brazil has no hostile neighbors.

India has hostile neighbors but no buffer states exist because of geography. In China's case, there really isn't a border state that is capable of fighting China so a buffer state is unnecessary -- except perhaps on the Russian border where Mongolia has remained as a buffer state, not siding with either side, in peace.

You may think the US and its European allies are benevolent but US is a hostile state focused on the destruction of Russia for a long long time, by military buildup, sanctions, espionage and all available means. Americans are all too focused on "winning" rather than peaceful coexistence. When a coexistence is reluctantly and non-consensually observed (i.e. vis à vis Cuba), everything is done to undermine the other nation short of overt military invasion.

Ukraine had discontented people and Yanukovytch agreed to vote early elections. Why was it necessary for the CIA to stage a coup and effect regime change? Couldn't we have waited for the elections if we are so democratic and all?

The world outside of Western Europe, Canada and Australia knows that US cannot be trusted and has unclean hands. Go figure.