I'm a now retired Ph.D. Aerospace/Nuclear Engineer with a large American defense contractor. I have given briefings of a technical nature at the Pentagon, Langley, Ft. Meade, and Foggy Bottom, so I am pretty much up to speed with all things military American foreign policy. Professor Mearsheimer is spot on. I would actually go further and say the intel alphabet agencies along with clandestine U.S. State Department and corporate media influence installed Zelensky after executing a change of government (aka coup de tat) in Ukraine in 2014. If we don't get someone in the WH who puts his foot down and says enough of this insanity, we are going to have a nuclear exchange. America hegemony and stupidity and political greed is 100% responsible for the war in Ukraine.

@piranhaofserengheti4878

4 ай бұрын

Cool story, almost believable. Where do you get your news from, Russia Today?

@stevefowler2112

3 ай бұрын

@@piranhaofserengheti4878 No mostly just from knowledge about recent Nato history and some knowledge with how our intel agencies operate and what I have seen with my own two eyes. This is pretty much 100% on us.

@kenwoodburn7438

3 ай бұрын

Everything around us is by design to bring in the one world government, if the Lucis Trust timeframe is correct, in 2025. This is all Hegelian Dialectic. Thesis Antithesis Synthesis

@konradmajsterszef7899

3 ай бұрын

All about who is the owner of US Dollar and who is benefitient of this ...

@geraldarcuri9307

3 ай бұрын

Coup d'état. At least get the spelling right before you tout your foreign policy chops, Professor. A PhD who can't spell even basic political terms? Meh.

Can you imagine what the Americans would do if Russia backed a coup to overthrow the Mexican government and then supplied arms and training to Mexico's Army to be deployed right up to the U.S. border...?

@Notrusbot

4 ай бұрын

or a change of government in Japan to a pro-Russian one, which is going to end the US occupation of Japan

@gautruc

4 ай бұрын

For infinite years, that imagination never happens.

@alanrobertson9790

4 ай бұрын

This argument doesn't work because whether or not the USA is hypocritical doesn't affect the issue that Ukraine has rights to be independent. Using your analogy it would be like USA annexing Mexico.

@antonromanov8672

4 ай бұрын

​​@@alanrobertson9790well that's what USA actually did

@herryso6238

4 ай бұрын

@@alanrobertson9790it would be much easier by just open the border to mexico, letting them to enter USA rather than annexing the country, wouldn’t it?

Ive listened to prof merschheimer many times and he never approved or disapproved anything that Russia or Ukraine did. Neither did he ever say one is right and the other is wrong. He's simply saying that actions have consequences and whether the reaction by a country like Russia to Ukraine wanting to join NATO was right or wrong, he simply was saying that Russia saw them as a threat to their homeland and responded to that perceived threat. The professor is spot on and his knowledge of geopolitics is excellent. The bottom line is that wars are waged by politicians and their corporate sponsors who benefit from it and not ordinary people of Russia or Ukraine or of any other country. This world would be better off without politicians but the reality is that we all have to live under their tyranny

@giftedtheos

5 күн бұрын

He is a crackpot. Read real experts like Timothy Snyder on Ukraine-Russian affairs

People who've been stating this geopolitical position have all been smugly written off as conspiracy theorists. Congratulations to John Anderson for giving this accurate world view a platform.

@Koiler8

3 ай бұрын

Me included.

@mesolithicman164

3 ай бұрын

You can only maintain a falsehood for so long. Eventually the truth emerges, by leaks, events or public scrutiny. That's where we are now, the truth is becoming clear.

@pleasemisguideme345

3 ай бұрын

NATO is not a threat to Russian Sovereignty, only Russian Imperialism. How much do you know about realism? Don’t let the name fool you. But I guess Eastern Europe has no agency. Russia should be allowed to have a sphere of influence regardless of their actions because it’s “realistic”.

@greedy_mf

2 ай бұрын

which game is your pfp from?

@reedschrichte800

2 ай бұрын

Mearsheimer is a bootlicking toady.

Add Merkel statement that they had no intent to honour the Minsk 2 accords.

@TheOneTwo12

4 ай бұрын

lol, you clearly have no idea what you are talking about. merkel's assessment was very accurate that was proven later as any agreement with kremlin has less value as a used piece of toilet paper.

@antonstoeckl3689

4 ай бұрын

Despite the Minsk agreement and despite the presence of the OECD Observer Mission. Ukraine lost between the Russian insurgent to the Donbas and the full scale unprovoked Russian invasion in Feb. 22 over 14 000 civil and military person in this war. Russia lost from their invasion army in the Donbas at the same time somewhat over 2 000 soldiers which have been transported back to Russia as Cargo 200 in high secret. Lev Schlossberg, Member of the Duma documented in his riding bordering Estonia the funeral ov several fallen soldiers and was from thugs nearly beaten to dead. So much to the commitment or violation of Russia to the MINSK agreement

@souria1671

4 ай бұрын

Exactement 👍👍

@drmodestoesq

4 ай бұрын

And neither did Russia. And Russia was lying through its teeth when it said it was not militarily involved in Eastern Ukraine.

@AleksandrYgA

4 ай бұрын

@@drmodestoesq, you need to educate yourself on the subject - Russia wasn't a side of Minsk accords, it was between Ukraine and the rebel republics.

I'm from Belarus. And want to say, that Mr. Mearsheimer is absolutely right. Nobody needs this war in our region: nor russians, nor ukranians, nor us. Greetings! ❤❤❤

@Tyler-xf6fd

2 ай бұрын

question are you proud to be from Belarus currently and do you live there right now?

@loutsont2985

2 ай бұрын

@@Tyler-xf6fd Either way makes no more or less valid statement.

@korzhs

2 ай бұрын

So, what's the problem? Russians just need to return to their borders and that's all, end of the war.

@gedoni5

Ай бұрын

right about what? NATO expansion? You think Baltic countries would still be sovereign today if they hadn't joined NATO?

@user-hd3ti1mg9j

Ай бұрын

​@@Tyler-xf6fdWhat's the problem about being proud of your mother land? Belarus is a great country, no matter what you can read in the Western media about it. Do you know that Belarus lost 1 in 3 citizen in WW2 and survived? An if the Western attempt of coup in Belarus failed, it doesn't mean that you may say everything you want about the country you know nothing except for the name of their president, who just goes with the prefix - dictator in all western channels. So, what do you know about Belarus?

The U.S. keeps saying the Ukraine war is "unprovoked." Unfortunately, most Americans are still in the dark,

@kingjasko

4 ай бұрын

not just americans, my friend, europeans believe everything the west tells them, they do not have the capability of doing their own unbiased research... the future is grim for all of us

@comancheflyer4903

4 ай бұрын

And they will stay there for a long, long time to come.

@Jefffrrry

4 ай бұрын

It is unprovoked, the people of Ukraine have the right to choose where they want to belong, they are not destined to have their future dictated from the Kremlin.

@Cue_D_ball

4 ай бұрын

How would you know most so do a little division 350 million, so that would be 250 million people.

@personmcperson5740

4 ай бұрын

​@@Jefffrrryyou know ukraine was murdering ethnic Russian Ukrainians right?

As a Ukrainian whose family was severely messed up (to not say f word) by this war (by our government to be precise) I thank you for spreading the truth.

@user-jm8qf1rw7y

2 ай бұрын

Stay strong and safe!:) ❤

@peterh.1521

2 ай бұрын

Thank you for telling the truth. I believe you.

@Alex-rk8mp

Ай бұрын

What is that truth?

@rodolphegilles

26 күн бұрын

@@Alex-rk8mp The video is 6:30 long. Is it still too long for you to watch and listen.?

@Alex-rk8mp

26 күн бұрын

​@@rodolphegilles ah so maybe you can tell me. What is the truth?

Putin has been saying this for years.

@banta-pd8zj

4 ай бұрын

And Putin's media have been making his message plain which obviouslyMearsheimer ignores. What's the matter with Mearsheimer? He still thinks Putin is a rational player.

@opinion4755

4 ай бұрын

Exactly. Doesn't make John look good.

@banta-pd8zj

4 ай бұрын

Nothing makes Anderson look hood. He struggles enunciating motherhood statements. Does anyone know the background to this channel? This is no hobby production. This is costing him.

@evanborso

2 ай бұрын

And nobody seems wants to listen. War brings lots of money, and capitalism in the end will destroy the world in order to grab all the money.

@jimmypovilasphil

2 ай бұрын

So has Mearsheimer.

British Foreign Secretary David Cameron from Washington addressing Americans: You spend an additional 10% of your defense budget With this, you destroy 50% of Russian defense equipment Without Americans and Britons losing their lives Thanks to the courage of the Ukrainians. "This is a big investment" You have to notice what this foreign policy entails in many wars around the world.

@Tiaimo

4 ай бұрын

Without Unkrainian life and territory in the equation. It's done and dusted.

@LNGD_46

4 ай бұрын

The only problem with that statement is that 10% of US defense budget is around $90 billion (but they spent $200 billion actually) and 50% of Russian equipment lost is estimated to be $150 billion. I think if we take out the 10% for the big guy, we could say both Russia and US spend about the same amount for this war.

@jakedee4117

4 ай бұрын

I would love to know how you calculated $s of Russian equipment losses. This sort of stuff just isn't traded on the open market like soya beans. I don't think I'm exaggerating too much if I guess that the resources Russia expends on getting another Iskander ballistic missile wouldn't even cover a lunch for McDonald Douglas' legal team. @@LNGD_46

@rosemaryspiota9836

4 ай бұрын

Cameron has not improved since he was PM.

@peterliemareff8894

4 ай бұрын

Well then the Ukrainians should all thank David Cameron for guiding them in investing for the future, only there is not going to be any ukranians remaining to see their ROI. So sad for all the lives lost, the country was duped, big time, how is that they didn't see it coming.?.

Does the entire world have to agree with US and UK standard of democracy? No. Why the need to export their values to the rest of the world given they have their own domestic challenges of inequality and racism and they are not addressing them?

@vosmbz

3 ай бұрын

The American propagandists would accuse you in exercising ‘whataboutism’.

@P.A.C.E.automotive

3 ай бұрын

Fair

@Blanka1100

3 ай бұрын

Why don't you care what Russia's neighbours want in all of this? They are not Russia's slaves and they live in independent states. They joined Nato to be secured because Russia has always been a terrible neighbour. They were right. Russisa needs excuses to annex somebody else's land. Putin wants Ukraine and blames his victims for calling the police.

@ln5747

3 ай бұрын

Racism and inequality are not the problems in US/UK 🙄

@stevefowler2112

3 ай бұрын

If most of tour democracies are bent on destroying our society and culture that made them great by being overrun with immigrants from third world countries I think we would do better to import some of Eastern Europe values that say let's keep our own culture, we aren't letting the savages in.

In Tucker Carlson's interview with Putin, Putin said almost the same thing as Professor Mearsheimer as the reason for starting the war with Ukraine.

@kadovax6567

3 ай бұрын

Normal. That's Putin lies in both cases.

@MrRawnerves

3 ай бұрын

@@kadovax6567 you couldn't tell the difference between a lie and a facts if your life depended on it.

@NataliaYasnaya

2 ай бұрын

Professor said the same thing some two years ago too, because it is absolutely true

@carsonw8223

2 ай бұрын

That's because Russian state media has been pushing this narrative for a long time under putins direction. This guy is simply parroting russian propoganda. It's not the whole truth and it's miopic in perspective, but like all good propaganda, it works on the uninformed masses that don't know who to trust

@davidthompson1369

Ай бұрын

​@@NataliaYasnayasaid the same thing 15 years ago as well.

The usual suspects of who profits from endless wars.

@Paulusmus

4 ай бұрын

Putin can stop the war tomorrow and the world will be a better place

@suzegiljer3206

4 ай бұрын

MIC

@birdyashiro1226

4 ай бұрын

Jaws😂

@dannychurch7223

4 ай бұрын

You know Russia invaded Ukraine? Not NATO.

@opinion4755

4 ай бұрын

If you care about politics and war I recommend broadening variety of sources.

I remember as a young man the tensions over Cuba and I believe this is just as bad now

@Blanka1100

3 ай бұрын

USA did not invade Cuba, had no will to annex it and did not claim that Cuba is "not a real country". Putin wants Ukraine. And he uses every excuse to justify his greed.

@user-jd5uz5xr9u

3 ай бұрын

Благодаря тому что США заставили Украину сдать свой ядерный щит взамен на пустую бумажку. Если бы Украина не сдала свой ядерный щит то не было бы никакой войны. И никто не подумал о том что будет если Россия нападет на Украину. И как они опозорятся в результате на весь мир. Им было наплевать на репутацию США и Запада. Они хотели решить сиюминутную проблему.

@belagarzo63

3 ай бұрын

Consider that in 1962 there were American ballistic missiles in Turkey. And the Soviets paraded their rockets aboard ships across the entire ocean in public. Then comes the hero Kennedy. Khrushchev agreed with him on the subsequent withdrawal of the Turkish missiles. Those missiles went to Romania after the coup against Erdogan. Where after that, who knows?

@NataliaYasnaya

2 ай бұрын

@@user-jd5uz5xr9uЕсли бы Украина не решила похоронить свой нейтральный статус; если бы украинцы не стали убивать своих соотечественников, которым на фиг не сдался европейский рай; если бы были чуть терпеливее и не свергли законное правительство, а подождали всего несколько месяцев и провели нормальные выборы; если бы начали выполнять Минские договоренности… ничего бы этого сейчас не было! Но история не знает сослагательного наклонения

@user-jd5uz5xr9u

2 ай бұрын

@@NataliaYasnaya Если бы это было то Украины бы не было. Был бы гулаг. Украина была бы и дальше нейтральной если бы Россия не проводила антиукраинскую политику. Если бы не унижала украинцев. Если бы не использовала газ как орудие шантажа. Если бы не вмешивалась во внутренние дела Украины. Если бы не напала на Грузию пользуясь ЧФ подставляя Украину! Убивать своих соотечественников начал режим Януковича. Если бы Януковичь сразу же наказал ментов побивших студентов то ничего бы не произошло. Он бы досидел до конца своего срока. Но он был путинской марионеткой. И делал то что ему командовали из кремля. Если вы верите что Януковичь с руками в крови мог провести честные выборы то у вас не в порядке с головой. Мы помним как Рашка выступала посредником в Белорашке. Когда Лукашенко решил узурпировать власть. А потом вдруг забыли о том что обещали! Кинув белорусский народ! Правительство никто не свергал. Верховная Рада и дальше работала. Регионалы посыпались и перестали поддерживать преступный режим. Минские договоренности нарушила сама Рашка. Так само как и будапешский меморандум и договор о дружбе с Украиной. При чем эти договоренности ничтожные. Ибо были подписаны под после военного вторжения российской армии. И все об этом знают. С таким же успехом я могу подписать с вами любую договоренность под дулом пистолета. Но самая главная причина всех бед-это народ рабов. Который позволил превратить РФию в гулаг. Если тогда защити НТВ и дали отпор надвигающейся диктатуре то вообще никаких бы воин не было. И Россия стала бы нормальной европейской страной. Но холопы сдали свою свободу без боя.

I highly recommend 2007 Munich speech of Vladimir Putin ☮️

@gwyndavies212

3 ай бұрын

THEY WILL INSSIST ON POKING THE BEAR .

@RussellHarland

3 ай бұрын

@@gwyndavies212 poking the bully.

@Blanka1100

3 ай бұрын

Russia is not a bear. It is cheap gas station which can not stand its time of glory is over and Ukraine is not soviet backyard anymore. @@gwyndavies212

@Blanka1100

3 ай бұрын

Cheap gas station, not a bear. @@gwyndavies212

@rob5197

3 ай бұрын

​Keep loving your USA.? , one day you'll wake up

I never understood NATO's eastward expansion if Russia was long regarded as a "gas station masquerading as a country." Doesn't sound threatening.

@demos436

4 ай бұрын

yeah, they wanted to get everything for free.

@sasicmirko

4 ай бұрын

If Ukraine were added to NATO,American soldiers and weaponry would not only be ever closer at the Russian borders but at the very threshold of Moscow city itself! Imagine Russian troops "collecting" one by one countries close to Washington? No nuclear world power would allow such indispensable and dangerous scenarios!

@sasicmirko

4 ай бұрын

If Ukraine were added to NATO,American soldiers and weaponry would not only be ever closer at the Russian borders but at the very threshold of Moscow city itself! Imagine Russian troops "collecting" one by one countries close to Washington? No nuclear world power would allow such indispensable and dangerous scenarios!

@JamesClark-cg1qk

4 ай бұрын

well now Sweden and Finland are in Nato, and Ukraine won't be far behind. So a bit of an own goal don't you think?@@sasicmirko

@sav7568

4 ай бұрын

Orders from Tel Aviv.

Making money for some powerful people has to be also considered . Not always a logic decision for the masses , but for them only .

@Maelli535

4 ай бұрын

Same tired old lefty wrongthink. Try growing up.

@peterkobor5470

4 ай бұрын

@@Maelli535 😅😅😅 Good one !

@drmodestoesq

4 ай бұрын

Exactly. Putin and his cronies have profited greatly by their exploitation of ethno-nationalist paranoia and victimhood.

@Cue_D_ball

4 ай бұрын

Hey if you were one of the few one for centers you wouldn’t say a word.

@Maelli535

4 ай бұрын

@@Cue_D_ball Living up to your name (Silly etc.), I see - your post is not even understandable.

This guy is right and said it all. Greetings from France

Need to go back to the 1950s when Krushchev put Crimea into Ukraine and Russia lost its main Black Sea port. It didn't matter so much then because it was the USSR but it did when Gorbachev got rolled and the USSR broke up.

@scoldedcat

2 ай бұрын

Yes. It was the Russians who fought the Crimean war, not Ukrainians. Historically, up until the 1950's the Crimean Peninsula was part of Russia.

@njd2342

2 ай бұрын

@@scoldedcat The Russians won it off their deadly enemy the Ottoman Turks. And the Brits and Frogs invaded Crimea because of some tussle about Jerusalem and religion. Its a weird world. Crimea was part of Russia from 1783, when the Tsarist Empire annexed it a decade after defeating Ottoman forces in the Battle of Kozludzha, until 1954, when the Soviet government transferred Crimea from the Russian Soviet Federation of Socialist Republics (RSFSR) to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (UkrSSR).

@user-nr5tp2jo3u

2 ай бұрын

@@scoldedcat You mean RSFSR.

@rohitparikh8132

Ай бұрын

" Gorbachev got rolled". This is why countries do not want a leader who is "too" nice. The leader gets rolled and country with him. And that is the reason why Putin did not go to Gorbachev's funeral. Putin knows that Gorbachev basically sold out Russia because he trusted the West.

What happened with the Istanbul Talks end of march 2022? The war would be Finished if US and GB agreed!

@kadovax6567

3 ай бұрын

What happened is the Ukrainians said no. The GB Johnson arrived in Kiyv one full week later

@cosmopolitanbay9508

3 ай бұрын

They asked the Russians to pull their forces away from Kiev, as otherwise it would look like they are signing an agreement at gunpoint. And so they did, and then Kiev rejected the treaty all together. Nothing new given the Minsk 1 and 2 precedents. Btw one of the negotiating team members was assassinated in broad daylight in Kiev. Ukranians do not have the final say though as you mention. Ukranian lives are cheap, so escalating further was a good deal - for the GB-US, with the ultimate goal of weakening Russia at any cost.

Moral of the story, liberalism ruins everything.

@cya1no

4 ай бұрын

Not really. Greed, stupidity, over-reaching, ambition, superiority complexes, etc. ruin everything and these are not limited to just liberals, they're present everywhere.

@san209nha9

4 ай бұрын

@nottelling conservative used to be against Communist. Now Conservative pro-Putin pro-Communist

@curtgomes

4 ай бұрын

@@san209nha9Nonsense! Russia is an Orthodox Christian nation. The US needs a bogeyman. Putin is the obvious choice. The United States has 800 military bases throughout the world. Many have nuclear weapons stationed on them. For God sakes wake up......

@StepDub

4 ай бұрын

When did Republicans become liberals?

@Henrique-qt4fq

4 ай бұрын

​@@cya1no yep

Exactly what Putin said to Carlson. Word for word.

@kadovax6567

3 ай бұрын

Normal. He's spreading Putin propaganda

@grayfox1422

2 ай бұрын

No it is not. Putin referred to his LIE that the 2014 Ukrainian Maidan revolution was a CIA backed coup. It was a Ukrainian revolution to oust their President Yanukoyvich who BROKE his pledge to sign the Euro trade agreement and instead signed the Russion Union trade agreement. I do agree that the eastward expansion of Nato should have been accompanied by the withdrawal of the US from Nato. This would have left Russia with having to face the rest of Europe without being able to claim the threat from USA. The USA would have then been freed up to concentrate on their biggest rival and threat, China.

@martint7936

2 ай бұрын

You mean a lie become truth when you repeat it? Sheep

@kustomkure

2 ай бұрын

@@martint7936 truth

@Uranus_is_the_size_of_a_planet

2 ай бұрын

You can't be serious to believe a murderous tyrant.

Very informative. Thanks for letting us know the details.

@raemondbradford1629

2 ай бұрын

Just on details, can folk please Google Baltics vs Balkans? See 2:21 - that list is not of Baltic countries.

Luckily there are people of a common sense thinking out there

Thank you Mr Anderson for having Prof Mearsheimer on your program and letting him speak.

I don't think he mentions even once what the Ukrainians themselves want.

@irinashapovalova2494

2 ай бұрын

что бы их все кормили😂😂😂

@tankerd1847

21 күн бұрын

I would be willing to bet you money that there are tens of thousands of Ukrainian (and Russian) parents who wish their kids weren't dead. If the average Ivan in Ukraine knew that all of these "reforms" and pushes towards the West would have provoked Russia into invading them, would they have rather have left well enough alone? I'm not saying Ukrainians shouldn't or don't aspire to freedom and prosperity, the problem is that strategically associating with the United States comes with a lot of fine print, and these people obviously weren't told about it.

Good Man.Thanks for your open the Brain thinking for EU resident.👍👍👍❤️

Now John start watching 'The Duran' or 'Redacted'. Independent media way ahead of Mainstream corporates.

@branka570

3 ай бұрын

I also recommend Syriana Analysis

It is clear that U.S. policy with respect to NATO expansion was never about preventing conflict or defending strategic security. The purpose has been to foment conflict and raise public sentiment for stratospheric military budgets. Follow the money. This is why the last 30 years of policy-making appears to make no sense to so many intelligent people.

The war machine cannot be sat idle for too long

@arthurdaroxtar

3 ай бұрын

Bordayr*

I respect this man for telling the truth. How I wish the West could understand that Russia don't want a threat next to their borders, just as much as the US and their Allies do. What has happened to Peaceful Coexistence?

@dinkeydink9376

3 ай бұрын

Maybe time to ask Polish and Estonian people why they joined NATO! Ukraine has always been dominated by Russia, of course they want independence. But it would be nice to hear the real reason from mr Putin to invade. Was it just to dominate? Something went wrong in the process to incorporate Russia as full member into Europe.

@alexgainsborough4921

3 ай бұрын

@@dinkeydink9376 and the reason for 800,000 refugees from Donbass, whom Russia accepted from February 22 to 24, 2022, is not enough for you - when, having violated the truce, Zelensky threw troops into Donetsk, and his artillery wiped out all the suburban villages from the face of the earth? If this reason - the total genocide of the population of Donbass, is not enough for you - then you are a Nazi, the same as the Ukrainian butchers with swastikas on their chests.

@MaximStrav

3 ай бұрын

​@@dinkeydink9376 please don't talk about things you know nothing about

@jb76489

2 ай бұрын

@@MaximStrav Why do you think so many former warsaw pact states joined NATO?

@MaximStrav

2 ай бұрын

@@jb76489 because our countries(I'm from Bulgaria) were enslaved by the Americans. It was not the will of the people at all!

When Angela Merkel can see it was a bad idea, what does that say about those in favour…😵‍💫

@JeepCherokeeful

4 ай бұрын

@@svend.3448she’s a certain type of East German so...

@JeepCherokeeful

4 ай бұрын

It’s a great idea?!

@piotrcagara7512

3 ай бұрын

So true

@everTriumph

3 ай бұрын

Angela Merkel was East German. She had the political reflexes of an East German.

Jack Kennedy would have totally understood the dangers of bringing Ukraine into NATO and would have never have proceeded with it.

Fantastic video. Simply the truth. So many persons don't know that!!!

Very interesting and backs up what I have already learned over the last couple of years and is in line with the Tucker/ Putin interview, thanks for sharing. from NZ

Mearsheimer keeps being right, and policymakers keep ignoring him at their and our peril.

He didn't bring up the Minsk accords. Much to be said there.

@kadovax6567

3 ай бұрын

He did not because Russia did not respect these.

@stonehold42

3 ай бұрын

@@kadovax6567 well no. Why would Russia reject an agreement that stops Ukraine killing ethnic Russian civilians? Have you read any part of the Minsk accords?

What about Victoria Nuland and 2014 coup

Psssssssssssst. How would USA feel about Russian troops in, say, Cuba? Hmmmmmmmmmmm

@tommaples9174

2 ай бұрын

You don't think America is surrounded by hostile States? You don't have to be in Cuba.

@thesmallnotesduo

2 ай бұрын

You are missing the point my friend@@tommaples9174

Well. We’re aware and that changes things.♥🍀

Mr. Mearsheimer, Your mind honor and conscience, and people like you, can save America from corrupt Government

Maersheimer is great ❤ From Denmark 🇩🇰🇩🇰

@wolfgangengel7786

2 ай бұрын

Spongebob is great either

No - NATO membership means funds for Military Industrial Complex, even if it is part funded by US tax oayers

We will never hear this on mainstream media.

Do you remember what John Kennedy, president of the US, did during the Cuban Missiles Crisis, October 1962... He said that was an unaceptable threat to his country... The world, for a few days, was in the brink of a nuclear confrontation... But Kennedy didn´t hesitate and he was considered a hero... Putin did exactly the same, with the agravant that in Ukraine, attacks against its Russian minority and a Civil War was raging since 2014... And the West and its obedient Media blamed Putin... Such ignorance of History, blindness and hypocricy!

@smelltheglove2038

4 ай бұрын

Every time I try to post a comment with this exact point my comments vanish.

@RandoBurner

4 ай бұрын

Because they were bringing in short range nuclear missiles. In an age where nuclear subs with icbm capability were not existing, genius. Not because they were allied with Russia, which they absolutely were(without having anything happen to them btw). If it were to happen now, nothing would happen, because nuclear subs have that ability. There is no difference between having nukes in Cuba or in subs at the north pole. And why didn't Russia invade Turkey, which does have american nuclear missiles? Why did he invade Ukraine. Why did Russia attack Ukraine in 1917 after they declared independence because the USSR constitution allowed them to? Was is NATO then too?

@pravak6745

4 ай бұрын

Do you think anyone buys that BS any more? smh

@wlhjr77

4 ай бұрын

that makes no sense...

@smelltheglove2038

4 ай бұрын

@@pravak6745 buys what BS?

Thank you for telling the truth ❣

How many wars did you start - US - Hello ???

@kadovax6567

3 ай бұрын

Far less than the 35+ wars Russia started since 1945

It's always a pleasure to listen for John Mearsheimer. He speaks from the view of his long-lived experience👍

@lucypembroke3574

4 ай бұрын

What does long-leave mean? Long lived?

@wlhjr77

4 ай бұрын

listing to mearsheimer is like listening to a russian parrot...

@irenagreg7373

4 ай бұрын

You do not have to listen...@@wlhjr77

@gareth4045

4 ай бұрын

Long lived experience- possibly

@DARDA360

4 ай бұрын

He is a well established Kremlin schill. Promoted by Anderson now.

Well, it’s unequivocally clear now…

A program on what should be done to fix the situation would be a good follow up.

Right after The War, American generals had respect for their Soviet counterparts (so it has been reported), likely in consideration of the fact that upwards of 80% of German Wehrmacht losses occurred in contact with the Soviet forces. NATO was founded in 1949, a year after Stalin's blockade of Berlin prompted the Allied 'Berlin Airlift', and months before the Soviets ended the American monopoly on deployed atomic bombs. After the Korean War, Khrushchev formed the Warsaw Pact (mirroring NATO) immediately after West Germany joined NATO. Since Putin became 'nationalist' (ca 2006-ish) American military and CIA have developed hostile disrespect toward their Russian counterparts, reflecting the resentment the latter hold for what they see as intentional degradation of the Russian state. NATO's initial mission was precluding Soviet incursions into West Germany and Italy, not least because no one had any appetite for contact with the Soviet military, and as a fail safe means to avoid a nuclear exchange.

Excellent. Thank You

Zbigniew Brzezinski: "The crucial issue here, one that might well come to a dramatic head in the course of 1994, is the future stability and independence of Ukraine. It cannot be stressed strongly enough that without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be an empire, but with Ukraine suborned and then subordinated, Russia automatically becomes an empire. American policymakers must face the fact that Ukraine is on the brink of disaster: the economy is in a free-fall, while Crimea is on the verge of a Russia-abetted ethnic explosion. Either crisis might be exploited to promote the breakup or the reintegration of Ukraine in a larger Moscow-dominated framework. It is urgent and essential that the United States convince the Ukrainian government-through the promise of substantial economic assistance-to adopt long-delayed and badly needed economic reforms. At the same time, American political assurances for Ukraine’s independence and territorial integrity should be forthcoming. “The Premature Partnership,” Foreign Affairs, v 73, n 2 (March/April 1994), p 76."

@agnes6585

4 ай бұрын

@@hughbarr8408 Greetings from France, to those who still reserve the right and the duty to think for themselves.

@MsLS8

4 ай бұрын

This is said by a person who really didn’t understand the situation- probably just said it for the sake of getting published

@qwert671

4 ай бұрын

@@MsLS8 Zbigniew Brzezinski didn’t understand the situation? LOL

@felipe-vibor

4 ай бұрын

​@@qwert671he was recruited purposely to bring down USSR/Russia

@science_engineering

4 ай бұрын

FOR NOW there is ONLY ONE empire on the planet Earth - the United States of America. It has 1000 military bases all over the globe, and it has a carrier group in almost every important sea in the world. Russia physically cannot afford smth like this in economic and military sence. China? They actually can. But don't want to. Did you see any chinese or russian military base near american border? Did you chinese or russian nuclear weapon in western hemishpere? Did you see anyone's (with the exception of the US') nuclear weapon in western hemishpere? But the US itself has NATO in Europe to restrain Russia, AUKUS in Southeast Asia and almost 500 military bases near China's border to restrain it. And of course: the key characteristic of an empire is that not a single military conflict in the world is complete without its participation. This is what we are seeing now in Israel and Ukraine and around the world. This is how empire works.

Great insight. One of the few political commentators that exercises common sense

Thank you for this video, if the world leaders had understood this earlier, then perhaps this terrible war would not have started🩵💛

@eagler8196

3 ай бұрын

They knewcit but still wanted this war...it's making many very rich

@MarcusTinkersTooMuch

3 ай бұрын

I believe they knowingly manufactured the war to sell more guns.

@Choco-pasta

3 ай бұрын

Unless it was just an excuse from Putin to attack. Blaming the west for this war. What aggression did Nato do to Russia? Russia on the other hand is constantly bullying its neighbours, flying thru their airspace with fighter jets, sending migrants, cyberattacks etc Putin wants to restore the Russian empire and that includes Ukraine so ‘nato moving east’ was just an excuse

@piotrcagara7512

3 ай бұрын

​@@eagler8196100% right

@zk1919

2 ай бұрын

Mr Realist still does not get it how to handle Moscovites: be kind and understanding they will try to bite and invade, show them big stick and make it clear that you will use it on their back - now they would be polite to keep their "Russian world" (know to neighbours as "Russian syph") strictly for themselves.

I still remember Stolten's exciting speeches. He thought he had already won. LOL No more. He is now like a defeated mouse. No one wants to talk to him anymore.

When Hollyweird put Zelensky on a pedestal, it was clear that something was wrong: whatever direction they're heading, we should resist the urge to follow.

Sometimes you have to learn to get along with your neighbors.

It surely helps to see “clear” first

Absolutely 💯 correct

Excuse me, the Budapest not Brandenburg Memorandum.

@timburr4453

2 ай бұрын

non binding

This guy would have you believe that Vladimir Putin should have the final word on NATO membership.

You are great professor you talked just the reality , mostly I saw your explanation on different problems of the world You are optimistic, realistic, moralistic and knowledgeable. You know all about this world's politics ,economic, socials,millitary and culture and history!!!!!!

Thanks for this great video. It is not much new but maybe eventually the message will sink in. The realists who warned early (like during the Clinton administration and also in 2008 at the NATO Summit) about the dangers of NATO expansion should be honored. They were right. Mearsheimer was one of the few who saw things clearly early and was vocal about it.

@Phelec59

4 ай бұрын

So Mearsheimer would want Russia to invade and occupy Ukraine. He would be agreeable to all Ukrainian streets names and town names to be changed into Russian ones. He wanted the Ukrainian language and any literature destroyed, never to exist anymore. He wanted Ukrainians to be made second class citizens in their own country. This has already been accomplished in the Donbass and Luhansk regions occupied by Russia. He must certainly was a Putin cohort.

@user-aero68

4 ай бұрын

The counter to that is that it is quite likely that P would have acted sooner in trying to reestablish Russia's "rightful" zone of influence (as he sees its and often states himself) in ex Soviet states and Eastern Europe. The problem is that Russia today has an expansionist/imperialist mindset - if anything Nato expansion has slowed that down. Interesting to note that the 2014 events in the Donbass and Crimea were more about stopping Ukraine from shifting to the EU, than anything to do with Nato. The real threat was the threat of a sister country with much the same culture as Russia becoming a free and wealthy democracy: terrible example for the Russian masses in P's eyes, especially after the mass demonstrations in Russia in 2012.

@user-aero68

4 ай бұрын

They really see Nato more as an obstacle or threat to their ambitions than as an existential threat. They do however very much use that expansion as an excuse for their actions suc as in Ukraine. The Russian barely bleated when Finland and Sweden decided to join.

@dorfe420

4 ай бұрын

@@user-aero68 well isn't expansionist/imperialist mindset the exact mindset that NATO employs? But I guess they have the moral high ground because they represent "democracy"

@pedropalotes7638

4 ай бұрын

​@@user-aero68 maybe if some governments didnt help to overthrown Yanukovich government all the events in 2014 had been avoided, remember Who tried to overthrown Lukashenko too? The difference was Lukashenko decided resist and the "new government" flee to Lithuania 🙄

Very clear information how the war begin. Thanks

@shaneb315

4 ай бұрын

Russia didn't mention NATO when they decided to invade Ukraine . Instead Putin spoke of de -militarising and de-Nazification of their neighbour . He understood NATO was no threat to Russia , in fact he asked President Obama whether Russia could join the NATO alliance ; to which Obama said , No . NATO has prevented Russian advances into eastern Europe , but could not stop its advance into Ukraine . The west is not at fault as imperialist minded Russia simply wanted to reclaim old Soviet territory to challenge the U.S led world order . For dictator Putin this war is a game he thinks is winnable as the reward for him is a weakened NATO , without U.S support and a big chunk of Ukraine - if not all of Ukraine in coming years . Ukraine certainly was not ready to join NATO in 2008 . War is there now , it's a reality , what is the point of laying blame on the west when Russia had other intentions all along - don't be fooled by voices out there too willing to point the finger of blame at the west , it just encourages the Russians to push harder .

Never here this on MSM .

The sisters of Sorcha Faal sent me. Congrats 👏

My takeaway is the continued funding of Ukraine only protracts the suffering and slightly delays the inevitable Russian victory.

@mariaadelecagna3540

4 ай бұрын

Bit the USA do not care!

@chinggiskhan6678

4 ай бұрын

What inevitable victory? The tides are turning against Russia! The Ukrainians are pushing them back! The war is nothing short but a series of losses and bittersweet phyrric victories for Russia. If anything, Russia is weaker than it was before the war, and now its only allies are deranged dictators clinging onto power

@venpul244

4 ай бұрын

More lost territory and absolutely no leverage during negotiations... President is left by Russians to lead the country on purpose for his foolhardy decisions..

@mrsnrub282

3 ай бұрын

Ok, but why not keep funding Ukraine if they're asking for it? If Russian victory is inevitable, why not make it so the cost of victory is extremely high for them, so high that they will never be a threat to the west again?

@matthewoshaughnessy2270

Ай бұрын

Russian victory will only happen if Europeans allow it. Ukrainians will fight and I’m sure, that Europe will support them. We are seeing Europe waking up and shifting gears.

I already knew all this. Because I do my own research outside of the mainstream.

@souria1671

4 ай бұрын

Bravo 👏👏 Malheureusement, ce n’est pas le cas de tout le monde 😢😢

@geoeconomics5629

4 ай бұрын

Read a book or 2 its all written in there

@midwesttraveler2485

4 ай бұрын

😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

@geoeconomics5629

4 ай бұрын

@@midwesttraveler2485 Due to: Those who control Eurasia control the World - J.H.Mackinder

@midwesttraveler2485

4 ай бұрын

@@geoeconomics5629 🤣😂🤣😂🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

The real question here is if the US is complicit in installing Zelensky.

Ansolutely brilliant, thank you.

What a pity John Anderson didn't become PM of Australia. Such an incredibly intelligent man

change all the terms from diplomatic niceties to carpet bagging graft procurement and general corruption as motivators and you are much closer to the truth. none of these people have ever had e decent thought or taken a noble action in their lives.

Ukraine could be compared to the United States in the respect that half the Ukrainians support Russia and that it was torn within. That type of conflict is on our doorstep. Which side are you on ¿`_

@mariaadelecagna3540

4 ай бұрын

Russia!

Where there is unrest, war or poverty there you are exactly.

Powerful articulation

Thank you for telling the truth.

In the 1940s there was no WEF.

@piotrcagara7512

3 ай бұрын

Wrong. The families who constitute we'd are far older than the US itself

@aspensulphate

3 ай бұрын

...destroying civilization so they can rebuild it to their "plan".

Interesting thoughts from an experienced, distinguished Professor

The truth is not always pleasant, but it will set us free

Very good synopsis of the conflict!

@shaneb315

4 ай бұрын

Nope ! The west could not control Putin's ambitions of challenging the US led world order . NATO is a hindrance to Russian ambitions of regional dominance - it certainly did not cause the war - that assertion is utterly false as Putin the dictator wants a return of former Russian - Soviet territories to make his challenge viable .

A very important variable in this equation that Prof. John Mearsheimer is not mentioning is that the people in eastern European countries in the 1990s were desperate to get into NATO. They saw it as the best way to join the West once and for all. Remember that at the time, 'West' for them meant higher standard of living, freedom of movement, economic prosperity, etc.

@Markusctfldl

4 ай бұрын

Libya would love to be in the EU.

@kingjasko

4 ай бұрын

sure, and the west was happy to abuse that to their advantage, so much about a defensive alliance today when they're actively supporting a genocide against palestinians, but then russia is bad, right? :D

@zoranlevnajic2089

4 ай бұрын

Yes, that's entirely correct. West has been (and still is) hypocritical beyond all limits. But it's still true that countries like Poland were desperate to join the West in the 1990s and they would probably do the same today. Despite all of it.

@Markusctfldl

4 ай бұрын

@@zoranlevnajic2089 This tends to happen when you become ideologically colonized. Naturally, if you can transform a society into a 'liberal democracy', you will latch it onto your geopolitical camp, as with previous ideological takeovers of countries

@kingjasko

4 ай бұрын

@@zoranlevnajic2089 well, polaks are the ones now calling for the rest of the west to "mobilize" against russians in ukraine :)) very dangerous narrative, one that can easily lead to ww3 and nuclear war = end of the world, end of humanity

From this perspective the tension build up was like a militarized "I'm not touching you, I'm not touching you".

Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa, Mea Maxima Culpa ! The US should recite this mantra and ATONE during the next century !

The Great Power Politics, that Mearsheimer advocates as the primary force of behaviour between countries, is inherently criminal. The rule based world must be respected. Mearsheimer should focus on developing practices by which the rule based world could survive.

@idtent8993

2 ай бұрын

Realism is about reality. Professor Mearsheimer isn't advocating anything, he merely knows the truth. There is not flag flying above the world, only anarchy. States that exploit this anarchy will always exist.

However, the addition of Finland and Sweden to NATO as a result,combined with a reengaging across the coalition to military preparedness, may have proved the conflict worthwhile. Also, their is another perspective that suggests the Russia would have done this any way as their ability to expand through military means is coming to an end due to population and other negative factors in the Russian state. All roads short of Ukrainian membership in NATO led to bad outcomes.

@andreipolytov1059

2 ай бұрын

Как просто? А давай посмотрим что будет? А если другая сторона, в этом случае Россия, что бы остановить это применит ядерное оружие? Как сделали в Японии американцы? Приходит время когда болтовня просто не поможет. Мы сейчас в гораздо более опасной ситуации чем с Кубой. Намного ближе к концу. С Кубой СССР не был загнан в угол, поэтому разумно сделал маленький шаг назад, и США тоже сделали это. Сейчас сумасшедшие либералы Америки и Европы ведут нас прямиком в Ад. Они в открытую призывают к войне. У России не будет выбора и она применит весь арсенал вооружений. И все. Никого из на не будем. Не демократов, не коммунистов, не социалистов. Я удивляюсь неужели люди этого не понимают? От нас даже пепла не останется.

Good interview

Spot on

John Mearsheimer is a brilliant man

Excellent report

Our thinking had been that we kept the question of an application open, and then we knew that NATO's door was open. But now Russia wanted to close it. At least then I thought: "OK, the situation has changed, we can't continue as before." Now it was time to apply for membership. Niinistö chose to kick off the debate in the New Year's speech he gave on 1 January 2022. "Spheres of interest do not belong in the 2020s," he said. "Finland's room for action and freedom of choice also includes the possibility of allying ourselves militarily and applying for membership in NATO, should we decide to do so."

Gracias gracias gracias ❤❤❤

BUDAPEST MEMORANDUM ON SECURITY ASSURANCES - DEC.5, 1994 The memorandum prohibited the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, and the United States from threatening or using military force or economic coercion against Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan, “except in self-defense or otherwise in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.

@dacorum8053

3 ай бұрын

Why can't you see that Nato saying Ukraine could join Nato broke that memorandum?

@kadovax6567

3 ай бұрын

​@@dacorum8053 Ukraine did not want to join NATO at that time.

@dacorum8053

3 ай бұрын

@@kadovax6567 The point is that Russia laid down their opposition to Ukraine ever joining Nato and what the consequences would be in 2008. Nato and ukraine decided to ignore that warning but both Nato and ukraine knew that would force Russia to invade. Russia was saying to Ukraine that if you want to join our enemies, we will invade you before you formally join Nato which is exactly what they warned again before the invasion when they tried to get nato to agree that ukraine should be a neutral country and nato refused to negotiate.

The other side of the coin here, is that the Eastern-European nations that joined NATO did so by choice; they actively petitioned to do so. And I have to wonder what would have happened to the Baltic nations, Poland, etc. if they hadn't. Look at what Putin did to Georgia.

@closetglobe.IRGUN.NW0

3 ай бұрын

And Chechnya

First man in a suit I have seen speak the truth.

omg comparing this interview and piers morgans for example.... so good to see a good interviewer, who actually lets you guest talk and doesnt emotionally interupt him.

Once again as before it’s all about resources. - Great soil for food and farming - Lithium deposits in the Donbas - Access to the Black Sea - Cheap labor - No state control +++

@timarnold9868

4 ай бұрын

That sea access is number one!

@markb8426

4 ай бұрын

Don’t forget the gas deposits that once developed would complete with Russian NG and that’s a big political No no.

@engelgirl7360

4 ай бұрын

And they want to break down the Russian Federation into pieces. 5 pieces they say,

@matsfrommusic

4 ай бұрын

I don't believe this is true at all.

@BadlydrawnBen

4 ай бұрын

​@@matsfrommusicit's absolutely true the US have been breaking post war agreements and forcing regime changes for decades

NATO expands says Mearsheimer - as I understand it sovereign states may apply for membership and will be admitted if they live up to the requirement. But apparently Mearsheimer is of the opinion that NATO forces states into membership? I don't think so - the main reason for those former Warsaw Pacht states desire to join NATO lies in their long time experience being under russian oppression - never again they said

@jackhardy3905

2 ай бұрын

Nato did force Bulgaria and Montenegro to join it was a will of leaders and Montenegro dictator not the people

@birgerkagan6087

2 ай бұрын

@@jackhardy3905 - Thank you for that well documented piece of information

@user-qq9ej7dz3d

2 ай бұрын

But in the case of Ukraine the West has deliberately exploited ethnic and historic tensions to destabilise the country and move it towards NATO. This was done in the knowledge that it would likely result in military confrontation on a major scale, yet the West was prepared to bring war for their own goals/greed. The long term goal being to make both Ukraine and Russia there's. The callous calculation reveals the West to be warmongering. Lives mean nothing to them.

@seanmoran2743

2 ай бұрын

America lures closer to the Imperial Centre he should have said

everybody should watch this !

A Great man who speaks the truth,