John Mearsheimer is an enigma to me.
On the one hand, he is highly intelligent, very intellectual and quite lucid in his analysis of geopolitical conflicts, their causes and consequences. On the other, he is a hawk who believes that the US must crush China to maintain its number one status. In his mind, there is only room for one top dog in this world. Intellectually he doesn’t believe that great powers can co-exist in a multi-polar situation, and that geopolitics is a zero-sum game.
In this video, Mearsheimer analysed the current Ukraine-Russia situation and tried to decide who caused the present tragedy. Not surprisingly, John concluded that the US caused the present war by repeatedly pushing Ukraine to cross Putin’s red line. He predicts that Russia will probably crush Ukraine and the Ukrainians are the ones who will suffer the most.
The video is about 22 minutes long.
Joel