yes. embarrassing and so unprofessional. 'Tabloid-ish'

Fortunately, the author had the opportunity to correct this. And now imagine how distorted everything Putin says is. And he has practically no way to prevent it.

A very British phenomenon

​@lanija19 Putin realizes by now that western propwash is actually as effective as anything at keeping the she pull and their marionette leaders lost in the narrative labyrinths they created themselves. The combined west is walking itself off the plank and Putin is already ambivalent about it....

All people who want to blame Russia always misquote Putin.

I think Mearsheimer doesn’t want to be accused sacrificing accuracy in favor of using breathless or dramatic language.

@@herrgolf I agree. I was criticising the idiot host.

@@herrgolf 'strong' language around this bloodbath and malevolence is accuracy.

Massacre or Holocaust or ethnic cleansing are all accurate but genocide might not be. I don’t criticize the use of the word genocide, mind you; I prefer people take this as seriously as possible. I’m just explaining why he might not use the term. And someone in his position needs to be exact with his language for the sake of credibility, especially with so many other people doing the work of calling this a genocide already.

@@herrgolfThere is a legal definition of genocide that one can look up.

or a country, like Russia you can't just invade countries

@@mateuszmazurek7991 Ukraine's main supporter and "master" (Ukraine is already sold to the US) is the biggest invader of your times... Strange, how "the good guys" arent so good... Wouldnt Ukraine, a country, that cares about its souvereignty (like you're implying), oppose help from a country like the US, that has been known for violating the souvereignty of other countries for decades..??? Ukraine (Ukrainian people, to be more specific.. I dont care about Zelenskyi and his junta) is being played like a broken, cheap violin... and sooner or later the US and Brussels will drop Ukraine like a hot potato. Greetings from Germany.

But the NATO and US are allowed to push eastward to Russia’s doorstep 😂from 1991 to 2021 😂​@@mateuszmazurek7991

As a matter of facr you can. Under International Law, a state may invade a sovereign country if that sovereing country 1) posits a threat to its existence and 2) If that state has disenfranchised a part of its populations based on ethnic differences and persecutes that part of the population based on its ethnicity, which is what Western Ukranians under US interventionism by the hand of Viktoria Fuck the EU Nuland.@@mateuszmazurek7991

The United States knows better, too. We used to be a good country. So sad.

Watch it again and this time either listen to it properly or else don’t misrepresent what was actually said - there really is no need whatever your views are

​@dirtydawg448 it's called, reading between the lines

I echo the sentiment. Israel's a nation locked in never-ending existential crisis. I don't blame Israel for behaving badly. I blame the UK and U$A for creating this whole situation in 1948 and doubling down on the bad decision ever since.

​​​@@harrymills2770Israel is the Anglo-American superempires spear in the side of Arabian territory. It's there for a reason. Grand plans go wrong more often than they go well. Remember Vietnam. Remember Afghanistan. Remember all the losses in between. Israel is a long-running exploit. Ukraine was much shorter. They both made the mistake of trusting America. Never do that....

Anyone who supports Ukraine, just because it will upset Russia, is a fool, the west and nato should have kept their noses OUT right at the beginning, I’m from the UK and I totally support Russia, and Mr Putin, we should all have kept our noses out, chances are the war would not have started.

Spot on. The MSM in the UK totally ignore him. Inc. the "fact checkers" (I can see why). To most fellow Brits I know his arguments and common sense does not even exist.

He was not alone.. Zbegniew Brizinski also forecast the Ukrainian crisis

He literally lied that Putin wouldn't attack Kyiv in 2022. Also, Russia invaded Ukraine 2 years prior 2016.

Mearsheimer said Russia would never invade Ukraine.

​@@joemerino3243 John's message, for years, has been that Russia was not interested in conquering and annexing Ukraine. He keeps saying that Russia is "wrecking Ukraine," so it will be useless to NATO. He says Russia will hold on to those parts of Ukraine that are ethnically Russian and open to being under Russian control, as was the case with Crimea. Putin had supported the Minsk Accords, which would have given the Donbas area some autonomy, but the U.S. undermined the Minsk framework. 8 years ago, J.M. saw exactly where events were trending.

He’s delusional

Ignore the comment@@joemerino3243, it's clearly a Russian bot. The Kremlin has whole teams commenting on KZfaq videos like this.

​@@SectionSixteenyou are referring to yourself

Right on. Still, he's at least thought provoking.

@@bramblebop1904 yep! He's definitely part of the debate.

Aber, im Gegenteil zum Herrn Mearsheimer, wissen Sie jonnygreen1376@ ganz genau, was Putin mit dieser Militäroffensive erreichen will. Und er hat Ihnen persönlich mitgeteilt, dass es im dabei um die "Sichercheit des Regimes und den Imperialismus" geht. Wieder ein Fall von angelsächsischer Arroganz

Really? I find the more I listen to him the less he makes sense. His arguments often don't even have internal logic and also often contradict his own views on other conflicts. When confronted with contradictions in his own arguments he just dismisses them and if pressed gets pissy and never answers. Not sure why he is such a big deal, he seems to be a very poor thinker.

@@WilkinsMichaelthe best thinkers generally are to busy thinking writing or teaching to be on tv.

Poor thinker? Mearsheimer predicted a Russian military reaction already 2016 if the West would continue to push Ukraine into NATO. Not only him. The US ambassador in Moscow at the time wrote a memorandum to Washington stating the same perception. Nobody cared about it, might makes right. I often wonder why good arguments do not reach the brains of listeners. What must not be, cannot be.

Crimes on the base of what law systems?

@@robertoandreamadonna6025 Invading another country.

@@markrobinowitz8473 what law systems? it was the ukranian army that invaded the people repubblic of doneskt

@@robertoandreamadonna6025 You have the democratic right to believe that both Hitler and Putin are perfect gentlemen if that is what you believe

@@robertoandreamadonna6025 Donetsk and Crimea are both legally and morally part of Ukraine not Russia.

Long overdue.

Nice try, Ivan

Mearsheimer's "reality" is the 19th century. He's said so himself.

@@gintasvilkelis2544 Actually, it's what I would call realpolitik, and it was pursued fairly successfully by the US in the post war period. Putin and China continue to pursue it to this very day, whilst we decided to followed the path of an "ethical" foreign policy, whose consequence so far has been multiple wars in the name of regime change, and millions of lives lost . Now the chickens are coming home to roost. The only regimes that need to change now are our own!

​@@Alok-fg8dd While I'm not saying that realpolitik is _completely_ irrelevant, the problem with Mearsheimer is that he's a _purist_ of this ideology, including believing that a bully must _always_ be given everything he demands - simply because a bully will be _more willing_ to use violence to get what he wants. This logic would have made a lot of sense if each country in the world were standing entirely alone and on their own when facing a military invasion by another country. But things like NATO _change_ that equation dramatically, because while Russia _could_ defeat the vast majority of European countries _individually,_ it's nowhere near powerful enough to defeat an alliance like NATO - which is precisely why Russia dislikes the growth of NATO so much: because "it takes off the menu" many of the intended future invasion targets. It's basically like a bank robber getting upset when seeing banks, that they were planning to rob, dramatically beefing up their security measures.

He declared russia is a warrior bear that will go to war, now he changed his mind😂😂😂

He’s a very good propagandist working for Putin 😂

Meirheimer has been WRONG about everything since 2014 lol

Mearsheimer is a charlatan, he pretends to be an expert of russian way of thinking, while he does not even understand or read russian... clown!

He is wrong in everything he said since 2021.

NATO membership for Ukraine has been pushed by the US government for decades.

That guy is the right-wing paid professional liar. Absolutely nothing he says is to be believed. That's why normal media won't interview him. The American spectator is a lie Factory.

You are right de jure, you are not right de facto. It was obvious by the treaty of September 2021 signed in Washington between Biden and Zelensky. You may look it up, this treaty is openly accessible on the website of the state department. You may also let it be if it does not fit into your narrative that makes you feel comfortable.

Lol no idea what he's talking about 😂

Eh? Most of the comments now are from people who've clearly bought all of the BBC's Russophobic and anti-democratic propaganda

smirking what he wasn't watching russian tv for last 20 yars . what they were saying us will fight with russia till last ukainian. why say that if they didn't want the war why invade try coup. or he means putin wanted to exterminate ukrainian elites and install some kidn of bloody north korea regime then yes he didn't want war he wanted gulag without war.

Sure 'smart, informed, logical, not easily swayed' - I doubt that you have similar compliments for those not toeing the botoxed murderer line..

@@nikolaikrustev1159it doesn’t take a genius to see Israel for it for what it is, that includes the collective west

​@@anotherbrickinthewall1169 For what it is, Israel is a thousand times preferable to what Hamas is and by association the Palestinians who have chosen it to represent them and against which not a single prominent one of them dares to speak. That compared to the Russian Mordor against which are ALL decent Russians - same who this grinning and senile Grampa is happy to throw under the bus together with the Ukrainians. Utterly revolting!

do smoke rock?

Indeed. It's not *in spite of* but rather *because of* the Holocaust that Israel became what it did. Other critics of Israel frequently bring up this issue and they never seem to get it, perhaps because they are sensitive to the feelings of Jews.

This is *exactly* the reaction you would expect from Israel. And almost certainly what the Hamas leadership actually wanted and plannned for. Show me a single example where the Israelis do not go in hard. The only surprise this time was the long initial delay in the military action on the ground. Whether it's wise or not (it may well not be) is another matter. But Hamas have truly brought this on themselves and there is no one else to blame.

A rather shallow explanation, in fact justification of the very cynical and sadistic cruelty. Let us not forget that Israel was born out of Jewish terrorism, and that Jewish terror organisation were waging campaigns of terror attack on the British (including efforts to assassinate Winston Churchill) even BEFORE the Holocaust. Then, we have many examples of cruelty, sadism, sexual violence WITHIN, like the infamous Zvi Migdal, the chronic abuse Amos Oz's daughter had been exposed to, the ZAKA brothers' misdeeds, and in fact sadistic, cruel, cynical, vile, and frankly psychopathic examples throughout the Jewish Bible, or Torah.

​@@calicocat8213how sad you had to reach so far back for Jewish terrorism...which was tiny tiny group btw if extremists...while we've had how many islamic terror groups?

Both are genocide in my world.

All or nothing and post-hoc thinking, the enemies of history.

And the US is also responsible for Gaza

@@galahadthreepwood Yes Hamas and Likud have no role whatsoever. Brilliant analysis.

@@galahadthreepwood Confirmed.

The problem is he’s incorrect though. Nato isn’t the issue has never been and Russia didn’t attack because of Nato. There’s a lot of Russian scripture in regards to this war, and events prior such as Putin invading crimea and donbass 2014 that wasn’t Nato related it was Yanukovich ousting and Putin not wanting Ukraine to align itself with European Union so went forth and invaded Crimea then Donbass. Then 2021 Putin writes an essay Historical Unity between Ukraine and Russia where the thesis of the essay, is Ukraine is essentially a fake country and artificially created by the Soviet Union, Ukraine is historical Russian Lands and belongs to Russia, and Ukranians are one people with Russia, meaning that Ukranian isn’t a real identity and that Ukranians are actually Russians in denial. This is what Putin was saying in his essay. A year later he invades in 2022. And during the war, Putin literally showed his true colours with this “Peter the Great didn’t take anything. He returned what is ours. This is what we are doing in Ukraine” So if this war was really about Nato then why is he invoking Peter the Great a Russian tzar, and saying that it’s about “Returning land to Russia” so Meirsheimer has a very one dimensional view on this he ignores a lot of what Putin himself has said about Ukraine, such as it being a fake country, historical Russian land. “new idea for Ukraine has emerged from the North Atlantic Alliance office: Ukraine will be able to join NATO if it gives up the disputed territories. It does look like an interesting idea. The only problem is that all of - supposedly - their territories are highly disputable. And to enter the bloc, the Kiev authorities will have to give up even Kiev itself, the capital of Ancient Rus” “The NATO-Ukraine Council has been created. By way of reminder, in 2002 the NATO-Russia Council was established. How it all ended is well known. Now the Alliance and our country are on (or rather, beyond) the brink of war. This time, it’s going to end differently. The Council will cease to exist because one of the parties will disappear.” This right here. Dmitri Medvedev. Former Russia Prime minister, current deputy council second in Command, top ally to Putin. This is what’s coming out of the Kremlin. Denying Ukraine as a country, saying their territories are disputable and that Ukraine, Kyiv belongs to Russia and that “Ukraine will dissapear” So how can anyone deny this is not russian Imperialism at the core? Nato poses zero threat to Russia at all and never was going to attack Russia a country with thousands of Nukes. Blaming Nato is just lazy, and shows a lack of deep digging on this issue which is disappointing from such a smart man like Meirsheimer. Just because someone is a professor doesn’t mean they’re particularly knowledgeable on an issue or correct. Appeal to authority is a real thing. On this issue this guy is totally wrong

@@jorgeandrade783 What was the precipitating cause for taking Crimea in 2014 and invading the Donbass in 2022? You are reading wartime propaganda as if people are telling the full truth. Russia is a great power, and great powers want a sphere of influence and to secure themselves with respect to other great powers. Mearsheimer told us exactly what would happen in Ukraine (primrose path lecture) and then it happened. Why is his model capable of telling us what Russia is going to do?

@@user-gy1pu3gq3d The precise reason of 2014 was because Putin’s crony Yanukovich got ousted and he wasn’t happy with that. So he invaded Crimea and Donbass and again 2022. Ukraine wasn’t even close to joining nato in 2022, if you actually look at it, it’s not possible for countries to join nato while having territorial disputes. So Ukraine had no way to join Nato in 2022, and wasn’t anywhere close to. Bottom line Russia invaded Ukraine because it wanted to, believes Ukraine is historical Russian land and they’re proving it now. They’re taking territory, declaring Ukranian regions as Russian land. This is not what you do if you’re scared of Nato. This is what you do if you’ve always wanted to attack Ukraine and believe you have a right to invade countries. You say Meirsheimer predicted but Ukraine wasn’t even close to joining Nato anyways. It literally was impossible for Ukraine to join Nato while Russia was occupying Crimea and Donbass. And Russia was never going to give up those two regions anyway so Ukraine was never going to join Nato while Russia occupied Ukranian land. Also, Ukraine made a deal with Kozak, Putin’s aide before the invasion. They agreed to not join Nato. Putin invaded anyway. This has been reported by Reuters. So it was never about Nato its just an excuse. The Nato thing is propaganda too. You accuse war time propaganda while using the Nato scapegoat which is propaganda in itself

​​@@jorgeandrade783Nice speech you wrote out there. I have a little problem with it though. Here's a quote from the NATO secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg in September of this year. “President Putin declared in the autumn of 2021, and actually sent a draft treaty that they wanted NATO to sign, to promise no more NATO enlargement,” Stoltenberg told a joint committee meeting of the European Parliament on September 7. “That was what he sent us. And [that] was a pre-condition for not invade [sic] Ukraine. Of course we didn't sign that." You're either an absolute tool or a CIA/Ukro troll and there's no 3 ways about it!

Mearsheimer has another theory and that is the security dilemma. You may say that what you do is defensive only; but it’s what the other side believes that matters. Was Cuba ever an existential threat to the USA? I don’t think so. Russia is entitled to its own Monroe doctrine.

Well said!!

To add: Mearsheimer is a graduate of West Point. He understands war history VERY well

The relationship russia has w Ukraine is quite different from US relations w states to its south. I wouldn’t argue what Russia is doing in Ukraine qualifies as imperialism. I sympathize with Ukrainians’ desire to join the west, but the identity of Ukrainian nationality being imposed on Ukraine the state is an artificial construct. Furthermore Ukraine as it exists was a creation of the Soviet Union and was never meant to be independent. To me, this is more a continuation of Soviet collapse and I’d almost call it a war civil war or war of secession.

Nailed it, this should be pinned in the description, thank you.

You keep repeating "Moscow" as if the Russian government were somehow a solid block fully united in the invasion of Ukraine. Rather it was a single person, Vladimir Putin, who "chose" to see a security threat that did not exist and cowed and threatened Russian opposition politicians into either sharing his distorted vision - or facing imprisonment or murder. Structural explanations do not work in this case. Personal explanations do.

garbage and nonsense.

Moscow was laughed upon when it offered to join Nato Moscow was ignored when it pointed that the promise of "not an in inch further tibtge east" was broken Moscow summoned for the promises to be kept and actually Putin has always beeb verry pro western. He did his best, but i guess after 2007 he gave up

The $pectator isn't exactly mainstream.

I'm not a fan of Mary (Queen of Scots), myself!

Mearsheimer claimed Putin would not attack Ukraine. That hardly turned out to be "truth".

He also claimed Russia was losing, he also claimed Russia wanted to conquer Kiev last year and so on. But in this interview he is more or less accurate.@@pplr1

How are they transparent?

@@jamesmather7896 If you had any sense in reading between the lines you can tell that he's just garbage at what he does. An obvious example is asking if mearsheimer would label his proponents as "hysterical", which would be such obvious clickbait which only an idiot would fall for (because if you could quote the great John Mearsheimer as calling people who label him as antisemitic as hysterical that would've been great at discrediting him). Another is the one many others caught up on, John Mearsheimer was literally discussing Israeli warcrimes, indiscrimininate targeting of civilians, forceful starvation and eviction of locals, and he goes "but what do you expect them to do?" Completely trying to move the goalpost and shift the discussion in a very uncharismatic way because he realized it was a dud.

surprise two years into this war they still giving him air time for his bullshit. lol

Hahahah, is this sarcasm?

In his (and your) dreams maybe.

No. The creation of The Ukraine was badly wrong.

Plus Jeffrey Sachs the late Stephen Cohen also many intelligent Americans who you find on the Internet as against the western MSM

He's verifiably wrong with every pronouncement.

RU has been trying to talk some sense into NATO for 2 decades. (Most recently 2 months before the invasion.) They got laughed at. Meanwhile USA has been funneling weapons to Ukraine for years, they boasted about it.

Seriously What are you talking about? He literally explained it in the freaking video? For years Russia tried and failed with the Minsk agreements that Ukraine kept breaking as it kept increasing its anti Russian laws, banning of political parties and increasing arms spending because it wanted to conquer back the breakaway regions? Russia showed back in like literally 2008 that NATO encroachment was unacceptable, you dont have to like it, no one really supports it, but why poke the bear? China isnt trying to build military bases in Mexico or Canada because it knows the US would sanction, disrupt and eventually invade those countries if it came down to it (And china and mexico are not so stupid as to let china build bases there either, Ukraine evidently was NOT so smart).

Is he really that stupid or just a RuZZian propagandist??

@@jaroslavzaruba2765 ok Vladdy 🤖 🤣🤣🤣

@@jaroslavzaruba2765 Putin has no right to say what Ukraine should or shouldn't do. If Ukraine wants into NATO, it's their decision.

With the help they were promised, they could

Here's one: @@tomeyckmans9389

​@@tomeyckmans9389what help is that?😂

It's even more ludicrous, as Ukraine iherited from the Soviet Union some excelent military industry, like tank factories (in Kharkiv, for example), airplane engine factories, military shipyards like the one in the port of Nikolaev. Ukraine had dozens if not hundreds of air defense units, self-propelled artillery, heavy mortars, armored personnel carriers, etc. Furthermore, several military academies from the Soviet era remained on Ukrainian territory (as is apparently the case with a very good artillery academy, as Russian military personnel have admitted: some Russian commanders speak with respect of the work of the Ukrainians who graduated from that academy). Finally, since at least 2016 (if not earlier) Ukraine has had hundreds of US and NATO instructors training its military. Ukraine has participated in military exercises with NATO since 2014. Mexico is much weaker against the United States than Ukraine is against Russia.

​@@godhallelujahgaming7947don't be like a joke buddy. You know what i mean

I'm counting beans here mate!

You are correct. Sanctions were a serious threat to Russia, but they ended up back firing on especially Europe.

You are right. If Ukraine bordered on the US, it would be a different story. It's astounding that the EU would allow this to happen on its doorstep. Ukraine is of no consequence to Europe other than it's wheat, women and as a buffer state.

@@bighappygomateshwara8794 Europe paying back for their Marshall plan. Marshall plan 2.0 incoming...

@@bighappygomateshwara8794 You talking bullshit

He is moron who cannot admit he was wrong with his foolish takes in the past.

He must be to make some of us believe that Putin is a pacifist and zelensky a nazi 😂😂😂😂😂

Except he's wrong

Just hate his confrontational stance on china.. otherwise bravo.

@stevenhenry Pretty close actually. It just shatters your fake reality so much that you refuse to see it and stay brainwashed.

Russia is just defending herself against NATO criminal expansionism.

No, they wanted to a settlement. No one wants that dysfunctional corrupt territory. It would have fallen in 2015 but then Russia stayed as clear of it as it possibly could.

Exactly ​@@pavelrott311

Yes, it does.

​@@misha1144No it does not according to international law.

@@LisaD-yy4gq 😂😂😂 You don't even know that international law is, what ocuppier means in legal sense. You are obviously not ...bright

@@josipag2185 You're making no sense. Try again.

@@LisaD-yy4gq Will California USA have a "legal right" to defend itself from Mexican military seeking to liberate its ancestral terretories taken away by war action of 1848?

What was independent or sovereign in the overthrow of Ukraine's democratically elected government in 2014, and subsequent mass murder of people who did not agree with that?

You mean the Ukrainians didn't want to have a president installed by the Kremlin, and they fought back until their "president" escaped to Moscow?@@tezzy5584

exactly, as though the Ukrainians had to stay forever under the Russian yoke just because the West are cowards.

Exactly! He's saying to the Ukrainians 'You live next to a great power, suck it up, bend to their will. No need to be sentimental about it and worry about right and wrong.' It was a surprise to me to see his position on the Israel-Gaza issue where he is rooting for the "underdog". Very contradictory

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@tezzy5584mass murder of people? You mean elimination of enemy soldiers?

Go tell that to war crazed westerners who haven't learned fuck o from the last twenty three years of History.

He doesn't tell the truth

His first sentence was a lie. Support for Ukraine amongst Americans increased in the last month, most notably in a Fox News poll, of all places, where it increased by 10%. Which Meirsheimer fully knows but chooses to disseminate disinformation instead, for obvious reasons.

He is a liar and an apologist for genocide. Other than that he is a great person.

Let’s face it, Mearsheimer is considered controversial because he is telling lies.

The mere fact that John Mearsheimer is on here shows even western media have finally accepted reality that Ukraine were never going to militarily defeat Russia. Even with NATO help. Russia has escalatory dominance and a surge capacity that the west simply cannot match. Russia's military industrial complex is firing on full cylinders and the west is politically to match what would be required to match as the cost would be far too high to justify given almost all that would be needed will be paid to the private sector military companies unlike Russia which is basically state owned. Ultimately what happens in Ukraine will always remain more important to Russia than the west.

extremely fair? Did you even watch it? The bias from the little boy freedie was so embarrasing

Is that you Vladdy?? 🤖 🤣🤣🤣

And also the fact that Russia now has 700 000 troops in Ukraine, but then Mearsheimer thinks that Russia can still win the war with those 700 000 troops despite the fact that Ukraine now has mobilized several hundreds of thousands of troops after the start of the war and gained lots of western weapons. Pretty stupit Putins dog for a professor.

This so called prof. is a pro-Putin Nazbol and anti republican and anti Democrat. Listen to him carefully.

@@zenonelealainen3750 I guess you are a more educated great-power expert than prof. Mearsheimer, are you?

​@@fifikusz I guess, I am not working for the KGP like Dr. Mearsheimer.

What are you babbling about? What's even the point of what you wrote? "Compare taking Kyiv (*not Kiyv) to taking Gaza." So what?

Isn't this the same guy who warned Ukraine against getting rid of its nuclear weapons 30 years ago? Because, as he said, it would be then only a matter of time till Russia invades them and tries to claim their territory?

@@Thanatos1982a Don't know. The nukes were never Ukraine's & the US was keen to not have nukes scattered around. Lot of decommissioning going on.

@@Jay...777 Just checked. Yes, that's him. Precisely predicted Russian invasion 30 years ago.

@@Jay...777 He whines about war crimes by Israel on Gazans (which btw is correct), but doesn't give a flying f about the horrors inflicted on the Ukrainians by the Russians and parrots Russian propaganda. Despicable hypocrite

@@Thanatos1982a Yes. Though the irony is later Mearsheimer claimed Putin would not attack Ukraine. Seems like his thinking suffered with time.

playing the agenda of drumpty-dumpty in advance. you know, that loser that got indicted 4 times, with 91 charges. pretty appalling...

And with NATO discredited and humiliated, perhaps it can be disbanded as it serves no constructive purpose outside of serving the MIC

Somewhere in your comment, the fact that Ukraine wants to remain independent from Putin’s Russia; and chose to fight to defend its autonomy. And the whole of Europe as in NATO didn’t force Ukraine to fight Russia; you also forgot that American offered Zelensky asylum and were willing to concede that Russia would take the whole of Ukraine. There are a lot of very ignorant and gullible people on this comment thread buying into the Mearsheimer BS.

cool story bro

FYI, NATO is not fighting Russia; Ukraine is … So what NATO defeat are you talking about?

absolutely the same here 100%

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You mean like when he claimed Putin wouldn't attack Ukraine? Or that the Cuban Missile Crisis wasn't over missiles? If you've been listening to him for only 2 years perhaps that explains why you didn't notice how often he is either wrong or contradicts himself. Still, you have been warned now and should keep that in mind into the future.

What utter nonsense, you obviously haven't read the US Rands Corporation government strategy of 2019, which predicts the US provocation of the war and Ukraine losing territory. But the facts are simple and clear - 85% of the world are with Putin, the US warmongering has sickened everyone - I would have thought they've just lost Afghanistan, running away grabbing at the wings of planes, perhaps learning a lesson... or no.... this requires brains. Sanctions didn't work, NATO is a sack of hay, totally useless for either attack or defence, Biden doesn't know if he is coming or going, Blinken & co are sinking in zionism, the war in Ukraine is lost, exactly like the previous 215 wars before it, $34 trillion deficit and growing.... But I understand the anger and bitterness, I would be mad if I were constantly on the losing side. @@pplr1

Yea, what a load of nonsense he's spewing.

♥What nonsense. You must be from St Petersburg. LOL ♥

This is so typical, the way things are said is for a lot of people more important than the actual content.

Hilarious.

What? When he's wrong? Russia didn't want war? Well why start one then? Putin Made it quite clear when it started firing its bombs onto Kiev...and sent in troops, 500,000 of them....also Annexing Crimea..aiding Russian supremacists into Donbass. t Putin made his speech quite openly on TV.

This man lives in his halucinations.

@@marcingaladyk do not project your own disorder onto him

@@Io-Io-Io Just because an old man professor in a suit speaks, does not mean that he’s not speaking out of his arse. Mearsheimer is delusional and speaks Russian propaganda. And many here are eating it up as though it were gospel.

@@Io-Io-Io Name two agreements respected by Putin's Russia.

Questions weighted by the sullen rage and frustration of having been caught violating the 11th commandment...

he isn't a brain washed man, he is a clear head smart guy telling truth since day one of this awful war

@@BA-od9km He is liar. Putin did what in Moldova, Georgia? And whaty Syrian lives didn' matter?? And there is not just already miles and miles of border with NATO, in Russia not Ukraine on Volga is NATO base. Putin only wants expand. This liar knows it very well.

Nah. He is just amoral and liar

Do you think if Russia want to take Kiev now Ukraine can stop them?

Yes, of course.

Hope your including Hamas in this ?

​@@baldersn4474 Of course, but remember that Hamas is not a State, while Israel is, and an ostensibly democratic one at that.

In December 2021 Russia initiated talks with NATO about RU's security concerns. Then in January 2022 there was another round of talks. RU got laughed at. Meanwhile USA was funneling weapons to Ukraine.

What is with my concern. I live close to Kaliningrad. In this small piece of land in middle of Europe is one of the biggest Russian military base with atomic weapons. All the people know from the past, to live under Russia control. What Russian security guarantees means you can ask Ukraine, if they give away their atomic weapons?

@@Andy-pu1gx Yes, ignore the coup, ignore NATO pushing against Russia. You are an imb\ecile.

Russia has many military threats at its borders. Take the trouble to look at a map for yourself. What do you see?

Ukraine never threatened Russia in any way. Quite the opposite - it was Russia that invaded and annexed Crimea and started and fed "civil war at Donbas" with its money, weapons and troops. Shouldn't it be then Ukrainians who have right to feel threatened by Russia and not the other way around?

@@Thanatos1982a Ukraine never threatened Russia in first years after 1991. They working together in Crimea, having Black Sea fleet together. Ukraine start threating Russia only after USA start involved into that. It's have nothing about what Russia want, Ukraine just used as weapon against Russia and USA want to turn people in Russia and Ukraine as mortal enemies.

The first general secretary of NATO said the purpose of NATO was to keep American in, Russia out and Germany down.

OK komrade.

Up is down in western propaganda. In 1962 USA almost started nuclear war because of cuba placed USSR missiles on it's territory. Did USA wanted nuclear war then?

No, are not significant. And just gas, without oil.

Seems like you are forgetting something, Israel was attacked, many Israeli civilians were gunned down in cold blood, Israel was not attacking before this

Conspiracy theory has entered the chat

@@Veritas419 How without it?

Funny how there is on Volga, Russia a NATO base and 0 in Ukraine. Funny how JM didn't cry when his wharphobe hippie pal Putin was genociding Syrians.

A bit harsh

Yes, my sentiments too. Clueless.

Aside from the misquote (which he immediately apologized for), I thought he did fine.

I think that the questions he asks have to remain within the limits of keeping his job. Freedom of the press (editorial/publisher) does not equate journalistic freedom. He looks stupid sometimes, but that's what you have to do to earn a living.

It wouldn't matter who's sent to represent the Spectator. The outcome will be the same. MSM got indoctrinated in their own narratives that they got to believe everything thrown at them by officialdom however absurd those narratives might be.

A sad despicable liar and prorussian imperialist.

The reporter mistook the words of someone else as his.

Yeah, I thought that. I suspect there is a little bit of journalistic underhandedness going on there. Trying maybe to get Mr Mearsheimer to admit through a slight of hand comment that the Israeli government are committing "genocide". He didn't fall for it thankfully.

And RU turned down the request of LNR+DNR to re-join RU back in 2015.

Because he had serious things to say. Not making childish wishes.

@@RunPJs 😂😂 And why he didn't mention that NATO basis is already in Russia, on Volga? Why didn't he mentioned Putin himself told he was fine with Ukraine joining NATO in 2000s? Why didn't he mentioned where is Kalinigrad already? Why didn't he mentioned wht genocide Putin did to Syrians? Why didn't he mentioned what Putin is doing in Moldova and Georgia? Why didn't he explained what exactly Russian were doing in Kyiv, wgat testing what severity of radiation disease one can get? O, and he can yell as much as he wants, but he is amoral. And whole world sees it. This is why nobody will take him seriously or anything other then foreign agent.

@@RunPJs The presenter clearly didn't have shit to say, guy was embarrassing and I think so much less of whatever the hell this youtube channel is because of it. Trying to make Mearsheimer label people who call him antisemitic as "hysterical", he could have made it less obvious at least? Good thing he didn't fall for such 8th grader debate level bait.

For being a joke! 🙄

If you are going to post publicly, then please at least write full sentences in English and avoid splitting infinitives ! same goes for the third post here - very poor!

I fully agree. It is not controversial given entire hisorical context.

@@PyeHillFarm Russian trolls and bots are still not good enough at English.

lol @@robbas_krk1510

I'm not a troll, and I started it, because of what creating The Ukraine did to my niece. What of it?

I'm wondering the same, could he really be that stupid or a paid propagandist?

Yeah, and the British puritans still live peacefully with the prosperous native tens of millions of people in North America that met them with turkeys.

He’s delusional.

@@NightOwlinNewOrleans No, he is actually compromised. I genuinely believe the Russians have dirt on him, just like they do on many other influential people in the West. Mersheimer looks like a sex offender honestly.

You guys are deluding yourselves

Not with more than a 🙄

😂😂😂😂

Really? Men in Fighting age are considered to be young men. At the moment they are sending old men and women to fight as their young guys perished.