And on why he sees the United States as primarily responsible for what Ukraine and the world is going through today

When it comes to Liberal Democratic Internationalism enforced on others by every means, says John Mearsheimer, the difference between Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. has traditionally been no more than tweedledum and tweedledee. We live in a country he says that must do never-ending “massive social engineering at the end of a rifle barrel”.

— And now? Mearsheimer on Putin’s invasion of Ukraine; and who bears primary responsibility? (Begins after a short introduction)

— For more opinion see Vlad the Perplexing

Note: It has seemed to me the whole world knows what’s been happening. And that many fear the West actually wants WWIII. A parting gift to Donald Trump?

Still, Putin fell into the trap of aggression first, given the vicious indifference of NATO to even nuclear war and all the disruptions to international commerce which would put everyone into global depression, breadlines, and hospitals without meds to help. I think that in some important ways NATO is better at brinkmanship. Had we been the first to wage aggression on Putin via Ukraine, then Tucker Carlson would have had something to lament. SH.