Neighbourism

Neighbourism: noun. The idea that the justness of international military action is solely determined by the proximity of one country to the other. As a rule, Neighbourists are strongly opposed to military action when the aggressor is far away from its victim, but are more than happy to support invasions by the victim’s neighbour. This basically summarises a prominent view in Russia (the majority of whose population happens to be neighbourist) stating that the Russian Federation has a natural right to wage war on its neighbours (and often the neighbours of their neighbours) with which countries farther away have no right to meddle.