Wrecking Ukraine: The cost of Winning the War with Geopolitics Expert John Mearsheimer

ohn Mearsheimer is an internationally renowned geopolitics analyst
known for his criticism of the US-american foreign policy
establishment. He has written the book "The Israel Lobby and U.S.
Foreign Policy" (2007) as well as "Why leaders Lie: The Truth About
Lying in International Politics" (2011). In recent years, he has
taken the minority view that the Ukraine crisis is the Wests fault,
which he had put into words in an article published in Foreign
Affairs back in 2014 when the crisis initially broke out. While
Mearsheimer himself states that his views are not mainstream, he is
still a popular guest on panels to debate the conventional wisdom
of conflicts such as the Ukraine crisis. He states that while
Ukraine is not a de jure member of NATO, Ukraine has been
integrated into the framework as a de facto member. This would be
considered a threat to Russia's national interest, which is why it
came to no surprise that the Russian leader would go to great
length to wreck Ukraine, to avoid it becoming a western bulwark on
Russia's border. Mearsheimer goes into detail how this crisis
started back in 2008 at the Bucharest NATO summit, where both
Georgia and Ukraine were invited to become part of the military
alliance. He also explains why nuclear threat is on the table and
why we need to shut this war down as fast as we can. Why the
Ukraine Crisis is the West's Fault (2014): Foreign Affairs article:
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/russia-fsu/2014-08-18/why-ukraine-crisis-west-s-fault
University of Chicago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4&t=15s Munk Debate
(2022): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhgWLmd7mCo