The most important video on Ukraine | Prof. John Mearsheimer
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- John speaks with Prof. John Mearsheimer about the future of the Ukraine war.
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John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1982. He graduated from West Point in 1970 and then served five years as an officer in the U.S. Air Force. He then started graduate school in political science at Cornell University in 1975. He received his Ph.D. in 1980. He spent the 1979-1980 academic year as a research fellow at the Brookings Institution, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Centre for International Affairs from 1980 to 1982. During the 1998-1999 academic year, he was the Whitney H. Shepardson Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.
His recent and most notable works include, "The Tragedy of Great Power Politics" (2001), "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy" (2007), and "Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities" (2018).
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I'm a now retired Ph.D. Aerospace/Nuclear Engineer with a large American defense contractor. I have given briefings of a technical nature at the Pentagon, Langley, Ft. Meade, and Foggy Bottom, so I am pretty much up to speed with all things military American foreign policy. Professor Mearsheimer is spot on. I would actually go further and say the intel alphabet agencies along with clandestine U.S. State Department and corporate media influence installed Zelensky after executing a change of government (aka coup de tat) in Ukraine in 2014. If we don't get someone in the WH who puts his foot down and says enough of this insanity, we are going to have a nuclear exchange. America hegemony and stupidity and political greed is 100% responsible for the war in Ukraine.
Cool story, almost believable. Where do you get your news from, Russia Today?
@@piranhaofserengheti4878 No mostly just from knowledge about recent Nato history and some knowledge with how our intel agencies operate and what I have seen with my own two eyes. This is pretty much 100% on us.
Everything around us is by design to bring in the one world government, if the Lucis Trust timeframe is correct, in 2025. This is all Hegelian Dialectic.
Thesis Antithesis Synthesis
All about who is the owner of US Dollar and who is benefitient of this ...
Coup d'état. At least get the spelling right before you tout your foreign policy chops, Professor. A PhD who can't spell even basic political terms? Meh.
Can you imagine what the Americans would do if Russia backed a coup to overthrow the Mexican government and then supplied arms and training to Mexico's Army to be deployed right up to the U.S. border...?
or a change of government in Japan to a pro-Russian one, which is going to end the US occupation of Japan
For infinite years, that imagination never happens.
This argument doesn't work because whether or not the USA is hypocritical doesn't affect the issue that Ukraine has rights to be independent. Using your analogy it would be like USA annexing Mexico.
@@alanrobertson9790well that's what USA actually did
@@alanrobertson9790it would be much easier by just open the border to mexico, letting them to enter USA rather than annexing the country, wouldn’t it?
The U.S. keeps saying the Ukraine war is "unprovoked." Unfortunately, most Americans are still in the dark,
not just americans, my friend, europeans believe everything the west tells them, they do not have the capability of doing their own unbiased research... the future is grim for all of us
And they will stay there for a long, long time to come.
It is unprovoked, the people of Ukraine have the right to choose where they want to belong, they are not destined to have their future dictated from the Kremlin.
How would you know most so do a little division 350 million, so that would be 250 million people.
@@Jefffrrryyou know ukraine was murdering ethnic Russian Ukrainians right?
I'm from Belarus. And want to say, that Mr. Mearsheimer is absolutely right. Nobody needs this war in our region: nor russians, nor ukranians, nor us. Greetings! ❤❤❤
question are you proud to be from Belarus currently and do you live there right now?
@@Tyler-xf6fd Either way makes no more or less valid statement.
So, what's the problem? Russians just need to return to their borders and that's all, end of the war.
right about what? NATO expansion? You think Baltic countries would still be sovereign today if they hadn't joined NATO?
@@Tyler-xf6fdWhat's the problem about being proud of your mother land? Belarus is a great country, no matter what you can read in the Western media about it. Do you know that Belarus lost 1 in 3 citizen in WW2 and survived? An if the Western attempt of coup in Belarus failed, it doesn't mean that you may say everything you want about the country you know nothing except for the name of their president, who just goes with the prefix - dictator in all western channels. So, what do you know about Belarus?
Add Merkel statement that they had no intent to honour the Minsk 2 accords.
lol, you clearly have no idea what you are talking about. merkel's assessment was very accurate that was proven later as any agreement with kremlin has less value as a used piece of toilet paper.
Despite the Minsk agreement and despite the presence of the OECD Observer Mission. Ukraine lost between the Russian insurgent to the Donbas and the full scale unprovoked Russian invasion in Feb. 22 over 14 000 civil and military person in this war. Russia lost from their invasion army in the Donbas at the same time somewhat over 2 000 soldiers which have been transported back to Russia as Cargo 200 in high secret. Lev Schlossberg, Member of the Duma documented in his riding bordering Estonia the funeral ov several fallen soldiers and was from thugs nearly beaten to dead. So much to the commitment or violation of Russia to the MINSK agreement
Exactement 👍👍
And neither did Russia. And Russia was lying through its teeth when it said it was not militarily involved in Eastern Ukraine.
@@drmodestoesq, you need to educate yourself on the subject - Russia wasn't a side of Minsk accords, it was between Ukraine and the rebel republics.
People who've been stating this geopolitical position have all been smugly written off as conspiracy theorists. Congratulations to John Anderson for giving this accurate world view a platform.
Me included.
You can only maintain a falsehood for so long. Eventually the truth emerges, by leaks, events or public scrutiny. That's where we are now, the truth is becoming clear.
NATO is not a threat to Russian Sovereignty, only Russian Imperialism. How much do you know about realism? Don’t let the name fool you. But I guess Eastern Europe has no agency. Russia should be allowed to have a sphere of influence regardless of their actions because it’s “realistic”.
which game is your pfp from?
Mearsheimer is a bootlicking toady.
Ive listened to prof merschheimer many times and he never approved or disapproved anything that Russia or Ukraine did. Neither did he ever say one is right and the other is wrong. He's simply saying that actions have consequences and whether the reaction by a country like Russia to Ukraine wanting to join NATO was right or wrong, he simply was saying that Russia saw them as a threat to their homeland and responded to that perceived threat. The professor is spot on and his knowledge of geopolitics is excellent. The bottom line is that wars are waged by politicians and their corporate sponsors who benefit from it and not ordinary people of Russia or Ukraine or of any other country. This world would be better off without politicians but the reality is that we all have to live under their tyranny
He is a crackpot. Read real experts like Timothy Snyder on Ukraine-Russian affairs
As a Ukrainian whose family was severely messed up (to not say f word) by this war (by our government to be precise) I thank you for spreading the truth.
Stay strong and safe!:) ❤
Thank you for telling the truth. I believe you.
What is that truth?
@@Alex-rk8mp The video is 6:30 long. Is it still too long for you to watch and listen.?
@@rodolphegilles ah so maybe you can tell me. What is the truth?
Putin has been saying this for years.
And Putin's media have been making his message plain which obviouslyMearsheimer ignores.
What's the matter with Mearsheimer?
He still thinks Putin is a rational player.
Exactly. Doesn't make John look good.
Nothing makes Anderson look hood.
He struggles enunciating motherhood statements.
Does anyone know the background to this channel?
This is no hobby production.
This is costing him.
And nobody seems wants to listen. War brings lots of money, and capitalism in the end will destroy the world in order to grab all the money.
So has Mearsheimer.
British Foreign Secretary David Cameron from Washington addressing Americans:
You spend an additional 10% of your defense budget With this, you destroy 50% of Russian defense equipment Without Americans and Britons losing their lives Thanks to the courage of the Ukrainians.
"This is a big investment"
You have to notice what this foreign policy entails in many wars around the world.
Without Unkrainian life and territory in the equation. It's done and dusted.
The only problem with that statement is that 10% of US defense budget is around $90 billion (but they spent $200 billion actually) and 50% of Russian equipment lost is estimated to be $150 billion.
I think if we take out the 10% for the big guy, we could say both Russia and US spend about the same amount for this war.
I would love to know how you calculated $s of Russian equipment losses. This sort of stuff just isn't traded on the open market like soya beans. I don't think I'm exaggerating too much if I guess that the resources Russia expends on getting another Iskander ballistic missile wouldn't even cover a lunch for McDonald Douglas' legal team. @@LNGD_46
Cameron has not improved since he was PM.
Well then the Ukrainians should all thank David Cameron for guiding them in investing for the future, only there is not going to be any ukranians remaining to see their ROI.
So sad for all the lives lost, the country was duped, big time, how is that they didn't see it coming.?.
Does the entire world have to agree with US and UK standard of democracy? No. Why the need to export their values to the rest of the world given they have their own domestic challenges of inequality and racism and they are not addressing them?
The American propagandists would accuse you in exercising ‘whataboutism’.
Fair
Why don't you care what Russia's neighbours want in all of this? They are not Russia's slaves and they live in independent states. They joined Nato to be secured because Russia has always been a terrible neighbour. They were right. Russisa needs excuses to annex somebody else's land. Putin wants Ukraine and blames his victims for calling the police.
Racism and inequality are not the problems in US/UK 🙄
If most of tour democracies are bent on destroying our society and culture that made them great by being overrun with immigrants from third world countries I think we would do better to import some of Eastern Europe values that say let's keep our own culture, we aren't letting the savages in.
In Tucker Carlson's interview with Putin, Putin said almost the same thing as Professor Mearsheimer as the reason for starting the war with Ukraine.
Normal. That's Putin lies in both cases.
@@kadovax6567 you couldn't tell the difference between a lie and a facts if your life depended on it.
Professor said the same thing some two years ago too, because it is absolutely true
That's because Russian state media has been pushing this narrative for a long time under putins direction. This guy is simply parroting russian propoganda. It's not the whole truth and it's miopic in perspective, but like all good propaganda, it works on the uninformed masses that don't know who to trust
@@NataliaYasnayasaid the same thing 15 years ago as well.
The usual suspects of who profits from endless wars.
Putin can stop the war tomorrow and the world will be a better place
MIC
Jaws😂
You know Russia invaded Ukraine? Not NATO.
If you care about politics and war I recommend broadening variety of sources.
Making money for some powerful people has to be also considered . Not always a logic decision for the masses , but for them only .
Same tired old lefty wrongthink. Try growing up.
@@Maelli535 😅😅😅 Good one !
Exactly. Putin and his cronies have profited greatly by their exploitation of ethno-nationalist paranoia and victimhood.
Hey if you were one of the few one for centers you wouldn’t say a word.
@@Cue_D_ball Living up to your name (Silly etc.), I see - your post is not even understandable.
Very informative. Thanks for letting us know the details.
Just on details, can folk please Google Baltics vs Balkans? See 2:21 - that list is not of Baltic countries.
I remember as a young man the tensions over Cuba and I believe this is just as bad now
USA did not invade Cuba, had no will to annex it and did not claim that Cuba is "not a real country". Putin wants Ukraine. And he uses every excuse to justify his greed.
Благодаря тому что США заставили Украину сдать свой ядерный щит взамен на пустую бумажку.
Если бы Украина не сдала свой ядерный щит то не было бы никакой войны.
И никто не подумал о том что будет если Россия нападет на Украину. И как они опозорятся в результате на весь мир. Им было наплевать на репутацию США и Запада. Они хотели решить сиюминутную проблему.
Consider that in 1962 there were American ballistic missiles in Turkey. And the Soviets paraded their rockets aboard ships across the entire ocean in public. Then comes the hero Kennedy.
Khrushchev agreed with him on the subsequent withdrawal of the Turkish missiles. Those missiles went to Romania after the coup against Erdogan. Where after that, who knows?
@@user-jd5uz5xr9uЕсли бы Украина не решила похоронить свой нейтральный статус; если бы украинцы не стали убивать своих соотечественников, которым на фиг не сдался европейский рай; если бы были чуть терпеливее и не свергли законное правительство, а подождали всего несколько месяцев и провели нормальные выборы; если бы начали выполнять Минские договоренности… ничего бы этого сейчас не было! Но история не знает сослагательного наклонения
@@NataliaYasnaya
Если бы это было то Украины бы не было. Был бы гулаг.
Украина была бы и дальше нейтральной если бы Россия не проводила антиукраинскую политику. Если бы не унижала украинцев. Если бы не использовала газ как орудие шантажа. Если бы не вмешивалась во внутренние дела Украины. Если бы не напала на Грузию пользуясь ЧФ подставляя Украину!
Убивать своих соотечественников начал режим Януковича.
Если бы Януковичь сразу же наказал ментов побивших студентов то ничего бы не произошло. Он бы досидел до конца своего срока. Но он был путинской марионеткой. И делал то что ему командовали из кремля.
Если вы верите что Януковичь с руками в крови мог провести честные выборы то у вас не в порядке с головой.
Мы помним как Рашка выступала посредником в Белорашке. Когда Лукашенко решил узурпировать власть.
А потом вдруг забыли о том что обещали! Кинув белорусский народ!
Правительство никто не свергал. Верховная Рада и дальше работала. Регионалы посыпались и перестали поддерживать преступный режим.
Минские договоренности нарушила сама Рашка. Так само как и будапешский меморандум и договор о дружбе с Украиной. При чем эти договоренности ничтожные. Ибо были подписаны под после военного вторжения российской армии. И все об этом знают. С таким же успехом я могу подписать с вами любую договоренность под дулом пистолета.
Но самая главная причина всех бед-это народ рабов. Который позволил превратить РФию в гулаг. Если тогда защити НТВ и дали отпор надвигающейся диктатуре то вообще никаких бы воин не было. И Россия стала бы нормальной европейской страной. Но холопы сдали свою свободу без боя.
Moral of the story, liberalism ruins everything.
Not really. Greed, stupidity, over-reaching, ambition, superiority complexes, etc. ruin everything and these are not limited to just liberals, they're present everywhere.
@nottelling conservative used to be against Communist. Now Conservative pro-Putin pro-Communist
@@san209nha9Nonsense! Russia is an Orthodox Christian nation. The US needs a bogeyman. Putin is the obvious choice. The United States has 800 military bases throughout the world. Many have nuclear weapons stationed on them. For God sakes wake up......
When did Republicans become liberals?
@@cya1no yep
This guy is right and said it all. Greetings from France
Need to go back to the 1950s when Krushchev put Crimea into Ukraine and Russia lost its main Black Sea port. It didn't matter so much then because it was the USSR but it did when Gorbachev got rolled and the USSR broke up.
Yes. It was the Russians who fought the Crimean war, not Ukrainians. Historically, up until the 1950's the Crimean Peninsula was part of Russia.
@@scoldedcat The Russians won it off their deadly enemy the Ottoman Turks. And the Brits and Frogs invaded Crimea because of some tussle about Jerusalem and religion. Its a weird world.
Crimea was part of Russia from 1783, when the Tsarist Empire annexed it a decade after defeating Ottoman forces in the Battle of Kozludzha, until 1954, when the Soviet government transferred Crimea from the Russian Soviet Federation of Socialist Republics (RSFSR) to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (UkrSSR).
@@scoldedcat You mean RSFSR.
" Gorbachev got rolled". This is why countries do not want a leader who is "too" nice. The leader gets rolled and country with him. And that is the reason why Putin did not go to Gorbachev's funeral. Putin knows that Gorbachev basically sold out Russia because he trusted the West.
What happened with the Istanbul Talks end of march 2022? The war would be Finished if US and GB agreed!
What happened is the Ukrainians said no. The GB Johnson arrived in Kiyv one full week later
They asked the Russians to pull their forces away from Kiev, as otherwise it would look like they are signing an agreement at gunpoint. And so they did, and then Kiev rejected the treaty all together. Nothing new given the Minsk 1 and 2 precedents. Btw one of the negotiating team members was assassinated in broad daylight in Kiev. Ukranians do not have the final say though as you mention. Ukranian lives are cheap, so escalating further was a good deal - for the GB-US, with the ultimate goal of weakening Russia at any cost.
I highly recommend 2007 Munich speech of Vladimir Putin ☮️
THEY WILL INSSIST ON POKING THE BEAR .
@@gwyndavies212 poking the bully.
Russia is not a bear. It is cheap gas station which can not stand its time of glory is over and Ukraine is not soviet backyard anymore. @@gwyndavies212
Cheap gas station, not a bear. @@gwyndavies212
Keep loving your USA.? , one day you'll wake up
Good Man.Thanks for your open the Brain thinking for EU resident.👍👍👍❤️
I never understood NATO's eastward expansion if Russia was long regarded as a "gas station masquerading as a country." Doesn't sound threatening.
yeah, they wanted to get everything for free.
If Ukraine were added to NATO,American soldiers and weaponry would not only be ever closer at the Russian borders but at the very threshold of Moscow city itself! Imagine Russian troops "collecting" one by one countries close to Washington?
No nuclear world power would allow such indispensable and dangerous scenarios!
If Ukraine were added to NATO,American soldiers and weaponry would not only be ever closer at the Russian borders but at the very threshold of Moscow city itself! Imagine Russian troops "collecting" one by one countries close to Washington?
No nuclear world power would allow such indispensable and dangerous scenarios!
well now Sweden and Finland are in Nato, and Ukraine won't be far behind. So a bit of an own goal don't you think?@@sasicmirko
Orders from Tel Aviv.
Very interesting and backs up what I have already learned over the last couple of years and is in line with the Tucker/ Putin interview, thanks for sharing. from NZ
Luckily there are people of a common sense thinking out there
Now John start watching 'The Duran' or 'Redacted'. Independent media way ahead of Mainstream corporates.
I also recommend Syriana Analysis
Fantastic video. Simply the truth. So many persons don't know that!!!
The war machine cannot be sat idle for too long
Bordayr*
It is clear that U.S. policy with respect to NATO expansion was never about preventing conflict or defending strategic security. The purpose has been to foment conflict and raise public sentiment for stratospheric military budgets. Follow the money. This is why the last 30 years of policy-making appears to make no sense to so many intelligent people.
Exactly what Putin said to Carlson. Word for word.
Normal. He's spreading Putin propaganda
No it is not. Putin referred to his LIE that the 2014 Ukrainian Maidan revolution was a CIA backed coup. It was a Ukrainian revolution to oust their President Yanukoyvich who BROKE his pledge to sign the Euro trade agreement and instead signed the Russion Union trade agreement. I do agree that the eastward expansion of Nato should have been accompanied by the withdrawal of the US from Nato. This would have left Russia with having to face the rest of Europe without being able to claim the threat from USA. The USA would have then been freed up to concentrate on their biggest rival and threat, China.
You mean a lie become truth when you repeat it? Sheep
@@martint7936 truth
You can't be serious to believe a murderous tyrant.
Jack Kennedy would have totally understood the dangers of bringing Ukraine into NATO and would have never have proceeded with it.
When Angela Merkel can see it was a bad idea, what does that say about those in favour…😵💫
@@svend.3448she’s a certain type of East German so...
It’s a great idea?!
So true
Angela Merkel was East German. She had the political reflexes of an East German.
He didn't bring up the Minsk accords. Much to be said there.
He did not because Russia did not respect these.
@@kadovax6567 well no. Why would Russia reject an agreement that stops Ukraine killing ethnic Russian civilians? Have you read any part of the Minsk accords?
Thank you for telling the truth ❣
Psssssssssssst. How would USA feel about Russian troops in, say, Cuba? Hmmmmmmmmmmm
You don't think America is surrounded by hostile States? You don't have to be in Cuba.
You are missing the point my friend@@tommaples9174
Well. We’re aware and that changes things.♥🍀
I don't think he mentions even once what the Ukrainians themselves want.
что бы их все кормили😂😂😂
I would be willing to bet you money that there are tens of thousands of Ukrainian (and Russian) parents who wish their kids weren't dead. If the average Ivan in Ukraine knew that all of these "reforms" and pushes towards the West would have provoked Russia into invading them, would they have rather have left well enough alone?
I'm not saying Ukrainians shouldn't or don't aspire to freedom and prosperity, the problem is that strategically associating with the United States comes with a lot of fine print, and these people obviously weren't told about it.
Thank you Mr Anderson for having Prof Mearsheimer on your program and letting him speak.
Excellent. Thank You
No - NATO membership means funds for Military Industrial Complex, even if it is part funded by US tax oayers
Right after The War, American generals had respect for their Soviet counterparts (so it has been reported), likely in
consideration of the fact that upwards of 80% of German Wehrmacht losses occurred in contact with the Soviet forces.
NATO was founded in 1949, a year after Stalin's blockade of Berlin prompted the Allied 'Berlin Airlift', and months before the Soviets ended the American monopoly on deployed atomic bombs. After the Korean War, Khrushchev formed the Warsaw
Pact (mirroring NATO) immediately after West Germany joined NATO.
Since Putin became 'nationalist' (ca 2006-ish) American military and CIA have developed hostile disrespect toward their
Russian counterparts, reflecting the resentment the latter hold for what they see as intentional degradation of the Russian state.
NATO's initial mission was precluding Soviet incursions into West Germany and Italy, not least because no one had any appetite
for contact with the Soviet military, and as a fail safe means to avoid a nuclear exchange.
I respect this man for telling the truth. How I wish the West could understand that Russia don't want a threat next to their borders, just as much as the US and their Allies do. What has happened to Peaceful Coexistence?
Maybe time to ask Polish and Estonian people why they joined NATO! Ukraine has always been dominated by Russia, of course they want independence. But it would be nice to hear the real reason from mr Putin to invade. Was it just to dominate? Something went wrong in the process to incorporate Russia as full member into Europe.
@@dinkeydink9376 and the reason for 800,000 refugees from Donbass, whom Russia accepted from February 22 to 24, 2022, is not enough for you - when, having violated the truce, Zelensky threw troops into Donetsk, and his artillery wiped out all the suburban villages from the face of the earth?
If this reason - the total genocide of the population of Donbass, is not enough for you - then you are a Nazi, the same as the Ukrainian butchers with swastikas on their chests.
@@dinkeydink9376 please don't talk about things you know nothing about
@@MaximStrav Why do you think so many former warsaw pact states joined NATO?
@@jb76489 because our countries(I'm from Bulgaria) were enslaved by the Americans. It was not the will of the people at all!
Mearsheimer keeps being right, and policymakers keep ignoring him at their and our peril.
Absolutely 💯 correct
Well, it’s unequivocally clear now…
A program on what should be done to fix the situation would be a good follow up.
You are great professor you talked just the reality , mostly I saw your explanation on different problems of the world
You are optimistic, realistic, moralistic and knowledgeable.
You know all about this world's politics ,economic, socials,millitary and culture and history!!!!!!
Maersheimer is great ❤
From Denmark 🇩🇰🇩🇰
Spongebob is great either
Excuse me, the Budapest not Brandenburg Memorandum.
non binding
Great insight. One of the few political commentators that exercises common sense
Thank you for this video, if the world leaders had understood this earlier, then perhaps this terrible war would not have started🩵💛
They knewcit but still wanted this war...it's making many very rich
I believe they knowingly manufactured the war to sell more guns.
Unless it was just an excuse from Putin to attack. Blaming the west for this war. What aggression did Nato do to Russia? Russia on the other hand is constantly bullying its neighbours, flying thru their airspace with fighter jets, sending migrants, cyberattacks etc Putin wants to restore the Russian empire and that includes Ukraine so ‘nato moving east’ was just an excuse
@@eagler8196100% right
Mr Realist still does not get it how to handle Moscovites: be kind and understanding they will try to bite and invade, show them big stick and make it clear that you will use it on their back - now they would be polite to keep their "Russian world" (know to neighbours as "Russian syph") strictly for themselves.
We will never hear this on mainstream media.
Zbigniew Brzezinski:
"The crucial issue here, one that might well come to a dramatic head in the course of 1994, is the future stability and independence of Ukraine. It cannot be stressed strongly enough that without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be an empire, but with Ukraine suborned and then subordinated, Russia automatically becomes an empire. American policymakers must face the fact that Ukraine is on the brink of disaster: the economy is in a free-fall, while Crimea is on the verge of a Russia-abetted ethnic explosion. Either crisis might be exploited to promote the breakup or the reintegration of Ukraine in a larger Moscow-dominated framework. It is urgent and essential that the United States convince the Ukrainian government-through the promise of substantial economic assistance-to adopt long-delayed and badly needed economic reforms. At the same time, American political assurances for Ukraine’s independence and territorial integrity should be forthcoming.
“The Premature Partnership,” Foreign Affairs, v 73, n 2 (March/April 1994), p 76."
@@hughbarr8408
Greetings from France, to those who still reserve the right and the duty to think for themselves.
This is said by a person who really didn’t understand the situation- probably just said it for the sake of getting published
@@MsLS8 Zbigniew Brzezinski didn’t understand the situation? LOL
@@qwert671he was recruited purposely to bring down USSR/Russia
FOR NOW there is ONLY ONE empire on the planet Earth - the United States of America. It has 1000 military bases all over the globe, and it has a carrier group in almost every important sea in the world. Russia physically cannot afford smth like this in economic and military sence. China? They actually can. But don't want to. Did you see any chinese or russian military base near american border? Did you chinese or russian nuclear weapon in western hemishpere? Did you see anyone's (with the exception of the US') nuclear weapon in western hemishpere? But the US itself has NATO in Europe to restrain Russia, AUKUS in Southeast Asia and almost 500 military bases near China's border to restrain it. And of course: the key characteristic of an empire is that not a single military conflict in the world is complete without its participation. This is what we are seeing now in Israel and Ukraine and around the world.
This is how empire works.
Sometimes you have to learn to get along with your neighbors.
It surely helps to see “clear” first
Mr. Mearsheimer,
Your mind honor and conscience, and people like you, can save America from corrupt Government
change all the terms from diplomatic niceties to carpet bagging graft procurement and general corruption as motivators and you are much closer to the truth. none of these people have ever had e decent thought or taken a noble action in their lives.
Spot on
Good interview
Very clear information how the war begin. Thanks
Russia didn't mention NATO when they decided to invade Ukraine . Instead Putin spoke of de -militarising and de-Nazification of their neighbour . He understood NATO was no threat to Russia , in fact he asked President Obama whether Russia could join the NATO alliance ; to which Obama said , No . NATO has prevented Russian advances into eastern Europe , but could not stop its advance into Ukraine . The west is not at fault as imperialist minded Russia simply wanted to reclaim old Soviet territory to challenge the U.S led world order . For dictator Putin this war is a game he thinks is winnable as the reward for him is a weakened NATO , without U.S support and a big chunk of Ukraine - if not all of Ukraine in coming years . Ukraine certainly was not ready to join NATO in 2008 . War is there now , it's a reality , what is the point of laying blame on the west when Russia had other intentions all along - don't be fooled by voices out there too willing to point the finger of blame at the west , it just encourages the Russians to push harder .
How many wars did you start - US - Hello ???
Far less than the 35+ wars Russia started since 1945
Ansolutely brilliant, thank you.
Interesting thoughts from an experienced, distinguished Professor
Do you remember what John Kennedy, president of the US, did during the Cuban Missiles Crisis, October 1962... He said that was an unaceptable threat to his country... The world, for a few days, was in the brink of a nuclear confrontation... But Kennedy didn´t hesitate and he was considered a hero... Putin did exactly the same, with the agravant that in Ukraine, attacks against its Russian minority and a Civil War was raging since 2014... And the West and its obedient Media blamed Putin... Such ignorance of History, blindness and hypocricy!
Every time I try to post a comment with this exact point my comments vanish.
Because they were bringing in short range nuclear missiles. In an age where nuclear subs with icbm capability were not existing, genius. Not because they were allied with Russia, which they absolutely were(without having anything happen to them btw).
If it were to happen now, nothing would happen, because nuclear subs have that ability. There is no difference between having nukes in Cuba or in subs at the north pole.
And why didn't Russia invade Turkey, which does have american nuclear missiles? Why did he invade Ukraine. Why did Russia attack Ukraine in 1917 after they declared independence because the USSR constitution allowed them to? Was is NATO then too?
Do you think anyone buys that BS any more? smh
that makes no sense...
@@pravak6745 buys what BS?
When Hollyweird put Zelensky on a pedestal, it was clear that something was wrong: whatever direction they're heading, we should resist the urge to follow.
Never here this on MSM .
Ukraine could be compared to the United States in the respect that half the Ukrainians support Russia and that it was torn within. That type of conflict is on our doorstep. Which side are you on ¿`_
Russia!
What a pity John Anderson didn't become PM of Australia. Such an incredibly intelligent man
The Great Power Politics, that Mearsheimer advocates as the primary force of behaviour between countries, is inherently criminal. The rule based world must be respected.
Mearsheimer should focus on developing practices by which the rule based world could survive.
Realism is about reality. Professor Mearsheimer isn't advocating anything, he merely knows the truth. There is not flag flying above the world, only anarchy. States that exploit this anarchy will always exist.
However, the addition of Finland and Sweden to NATO as a result,combined with a reengaging across the coalition to military preparedness, may have proved the conflict worthwhile. Also, their is another perspective that suggests the Russia would have done this any way as their ability to expand through military means is coming to an end due to population and other negative factors in the Russian state. All roads short of Ukrainian membership in NATO led to bad outcomes.
Как просто? А давай посмотрим что будет? А если другая сторона, в этом случае Россия, что бы остановить это применит ядерное оружие? Как сделали в Японии американцы? Приходит время когда болтовня просто не поможет. Мы сейчас в гораздо более опасной ситуации чем с Кубой. Намного ближе к концу. С Кубой СССР не был загнан в угол, поэтому разумно сделал маленький шаг назад, и США тоже сделали это. Сейчас сумасшедшие либералы Америки и Европы ведут нас прямиком в Ад. Они в открытую призывают к войне. У России не будет выбора и она применит весь арсенал вооружений. И все. Никого из на не будем. Не демократов, не коммунистов, не социалистов. Я удивляюсь неужели люди этого не понимают? От нас даже пепла не останется.
From this perspective the tension build up was like a militarized "I'm not touching you, I'm not touching you".
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In the 1940s there was no WEF.
Wrong. The families who constitute we'd are far older than the US itself
...destroying civilization so they can rebuild it to their "plan".
It's always a pleasure to listen for John Mearsheimer. He speaks from the view of his long-lived experience👍
What does long-leave mean? Long lived?
listing to mearsheimer is like listening to a russian parrot...
You do not have to listen...@@wlhjr77
Long lived experience- possibly
He is a well established Kremlin schill. Promoted by Anderson now.
This guy would have you believe that Vladimir Putin should have the final word on NATO membership.
Powerful articulation
BUDAPEST MEMORANDUM ON SECURITY ASSURANCES - DEC.5, 1994
The memorandum prohibited the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, and the United States from threatening or using military force or economic coercion against Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan, “except in self-defense or otherwise in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.
Why can't you see that Nato saying Ukraine could join Nato broke that memorandum?
@@dacorum8053 Ukraine did not want to join NATO at that time.
@@kadovax6567 The point is that Russia laid down their opposition to Ukraine ever joining Nato and what the consequences would be in 2008. Nato and ukraine decided to ignore that warning but both Nato and ukraine knew that would force Russia to invade. Russia was saying to Ukraine that if you want to join our enemies, we will invade you before you formally join Nato which is exactly what they warned again before the invasion when they tried to get nato to agree that ukraine should be a neutral country and nato refused to negotiate.
Very good synopsis of the conflict!
Nope ! The west could not control Putin's ambitions of challenging the US led world order . NATO is a hindrance to Russian ambitions of regional dominance - it certainly did not cause the war - that assertion is utterly false as Putin the dictator wants a return of former Russian - Soviet territories to make his challenge viable .
The truth is not always pleasant, but it will set us free
Where there is unrest, war or poverty there you are exactly.
Thanks for this great video. It is not much new but maybe eventually the message will sink in. The realists who warned early (like during the Clinton administration and also in 2008 at the NATO Summit) about the dangers of NATO expansion should be honored. They were right. Mearsheimer was one of the few who saw things clearly early and was vocal about it.
So Mearsheimer would want Russia to invade and occupy Ukraine. He would be agreeable to all Ukrainian streets names and town names to be changed into Russian ones. He wanted the Ukrainian language and any literature destroyed, never to exist anymore. He wanted Ukrainians to be made second class citizens in their own country. This has already been accomplished in the Donbass and Luhansk regions occupied by Russia.
He must certainly was a Putin cohort.
The counter to that is that it is quite likely that P would have acted sooner in trying to reestablish Russia's "rightful" zone of influence (as he sees its and often states himself) in ex Soviet states and Eastern Europe. The problem is that Russia today has an expansionist/imperialist mindset - if anything Nato expansion has slowed that down. Interesting to note that the 2014 events in the Donbass and Crimea were more about stopping Ukraine from shifting to the EU, than anything to do with Nato. The real threat was the threat of a sister country with much the same culture as Russia becoming a free and wealthy democracy: terrible example for the Russian masses in P's eyes, especially after the mass demonstrations in Russia in 2012.
They really see Nato more as an obstacle or threat to their ambitions than as an existential threat. They do however very much use that expansion as an excuse for their actions suc as in Ukraine. The Russian barely bleated when Finland and Sweden decided to join.
@@user-aero68 well isn't expansionist/imperialist mindset the exact mindset that NATO employs? But I guess they have the moral high ground because they represent "democracy"
@@user-aero68 maybe if some governments didnt help to overthrown Yanukovich government all the events in 2014 had been avoided, remember Who tried to overthrown Lukashenko too? The difference was Lukashenko decided resist and the "new government" flee to Lithuania 🙄
Thank you for telling the truth.
Think about the simioar situation around China ? Shoukd the world wait until a similar situation happens in Asia?
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Congrats 👏
My takeaway is the continued funding of Ukraine only protracts the suffering and slightly delays the inevitable Russian victory.
Bit the USA do not care!
What inevitable victory? The tides are turning against Russia! The Ukrainians are pushing them back! The war is nothing short but a series of losses and bittersweet phyrric victories for Russia. If anything, Russia is weaker than it was before the war, and now its only allies are deranged dictators clinging onto power
More lost territory and absolutely no leverage during negotiations... President is left by Russians to lead the country on purpose for his foolhardy decisions..
Ok, but why not keep funding Ukraine if they're asking for it? If Russian victory is inevitable, why not make it so the cost of victory is extremely high for them, so high that they will never be a threat to the west again?
Russian victory will only happen if Europeans allow it. Ukrainians will fight and I’m sure, that Europe will support them. We are seeing Europe waking up and shifting gears.
NATO expands says Mearsheimer - as I understand it sovereign states may apply for membership and will be admitted if they live up to the requirement. But apparently Mearsheimer is of the opinion that NATO forces states into membership? I don't think so - the main reason for those former Warsaw Pacht states desire to join NATO lies in their long time experience being under russian oppression - never again they said
Nato did force Bulgaria and Montenegro to join it was a will of leaders and Montenegro dictator not the people
@@jackhardy3905 - Thank you for that well documented piece of information
But in the case of Ukraine the West has deliberately exploited ethnic and historic tensions to destabilise the country and move it towards NATO. This was done in the knowledge that it would likely result in military confrontation on a major scale, yet the West was prepared to bring war for their own goals/greed. The long term goal being to make both Ukraine and Russia there's. The callous calculation reveals the West to be warmongering. Lives mean nothing to them.
America lures closer to the Imperial Centre he should have said
What about Victoria Nuland and 2014 coup
A Great man who speaks the truth,
Excellent report
I still remember Stolten's exciting speeches. He thought he had already won.
LOL No more. He is now like a defeated mouse. No one wants to talk to him anymore.
The real question here is if the US is complicit in installing Zelensky.
Good interview. Would you or someone address the following question: Mearsheimer faults US and NATO expansion against Russia for the Ukraine/Russian War. He spoke out many, many years ago before the war, against the US and NATO stance.
His arguments and conclusions would apply to the case of United States/China/Taiwan. He should have similar stance in this case, why doesn’t he? I am puzzled as to why Mearsheimer would suggest the US to focus efforts to contain/fight China (via proxy).
"... we're now in this horrendous war that turns one's stomach when you think of what is happening to Ukraine ..."
Gotta ask then: Would it have happened anyway (with Georgia as a bonus) _had Ukraine and Georgia joined NATO_ back in 2008 or some time during the 2010s?
Ukraine and Georgia joining NATO.
You need a mega ton of sleeping pill to put the Russia asleep while you are working on this.
Russia would have invaded either of them if they tried to join. This is exactly why Russia invaded Georgia in 2008, NATO promised them they could join and so Russia immediately put a stop to it before they could officially join and essentially become untouchable through article 5.
This wouldn't have Changed things because Georgia war taken b6 Putin because NATO wanted it!!!!
@@mariaadelecagna3540 1. Fix your typos
2. Such a claim requires evidence, care to bring any forward?
I'd love to see John Mearsheimer participate in arguments with people on reddit, just to see how it goes😂
omg comparing this interview and piers morgans for example.... so good to see a good interviewer, who actually lets you guest talk and doesnt emotionally interupt him.
I have agreed with the Professor from before the beginning. Having said that owners of the military industrial complex and fossil fuel companies have made more money than ever. This is a plan that has been on the table for over 20 years.
He is absolutely correct.
no, he is manipulative and repetitive.
The other side of the coin here, is that the Eastern-European nations that joined NATO did so by choice; they actively petitioned to do so. And I have to wonder what would have happened to the Baltic nations, Poland, etc. if they hadn't. Look at what Putin did to Georgia.
And Chechnya
This is informative
Our thinking had been that we kept the question of an application open, and then we knew that NATO's door was open. But now Russia wanted to close it. At least then I thought: "OK, the situation has changed, we can't continue as before." Now it was time to apply for membership.
Niinistö chose to kick off the debate in the New Year's speech he gave on 1 January 2022.
"Spheres of interest do not belong in the 2020s," he said.
"Finland's room for action and freedom of choice also includes the possibility of allying ourselves militarily and applying for membership in NATO, should we decide to do so."