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To: petal who wrote (233)2/25/2022 9:49:46 AM
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I have just spent an hour watching a 2015 hour long lecture with John Meersheimer of a university in Chicago. It's been tempting me for a couple of weeks on youtube with the headline like: Ukraine is the west's fault.
He was very cogent to me arguing that our self important US assumption that the whole world should want to be democratic is viewed very differently, except in western Europe, elsewhere. He argues that what we have been doing (since 2002) to Putin by pushing NATO onto his Russian borders has been clearly unacceptable to his country. Much like the US would react if China put bases in Mexico and Canada. Putin is willing to trash Ukraine rather than let them become a direct military front against Russia.
That was predicted in 2015 and here we see his prediction playing out. Meersheimer argues that we should instead have been discouraging a NATO threat on Russia's border, accepted that Georgia was a similar threat to Russia, and that we should be trying to not back Putin into a corner--which is exactly what we've done. And with nuclear power, a Putin backed into a corner, is a very dangerous enemy.

Mearsheimer goes further to point to China as the real threat to our view of the world (and our supposed right to force everyone to become a capitalistic democracy) and we should be courting Russia as an ally to counter China.

I must say, he convinced me that we are in the wrong again. I've regularly hoped western Europe could counter poor strategy by US politicians who use the aggressive moral rightness of our rather uneducated populace for dominating world thought. I would really rather we had never become so darned powerful relative to others--but here we are--stuck and trying to corner Putin. This will not end well.
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