renowned international relations scholar john mearsheimer explains how the US is responsible for the current ukraine crisis, and how absurd it is for anyone in the media and political class to deny this obvious truism
in the full lecture mearsheimer goes into great detail on the background causes, which are basically that the US, despite promises and agreements with the Russians to not expand NATO, went ahead with pushing it anyway, knowing what the response would be
I was a reading a piece on the cold war yesterday and was struck by a passage that echoes what mearsheimer says in the original clip. The US encircled the entire USSR w/ forward strategic bases, but when soviets tried the same w/ just one the US threatened to wipe out humanity 
the conclusion of mearsheimer's talk, where he responds to the criticism that he is somehow pro-prutin by simply stating facts, and explains what the best path forward is for ukraine, russia and the world
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