Tag: John Mearsheimer

It was not NATO’s eastward expansion that provoked Russia into invading Ukraine, but Putin’s imperial ambitions, argues Wesley Smith.

John Mearsheimer has described the war in Ukraine as “the most dangerous crisis since the Second World War", claiming it is actually “more dangerous than the Cuban crisis” owing to the risk of nuclear escalation.

Supplying arms to Ukraine *may* work, but we shouldn’t just assume it’s the right policy. The best thing the West can do is pressure both sides to negotiate, in the hope of a reaching some kind of settlement.

What do people in the “non-Mearsheimer camp” believe Ukraine should have done? Even if we blame Russia entirely, an invasion cannot be considered a good outcome, so it’s worth asking how it could have been avoided.

Back in 2015, John Mearsheimer, said: "The West is leading Ukraine down the primrose path and the end result is that Ukraine is going to get wrecked". Quite prophetic, no? But now students are trying to cancel him.