After the USSR broke up Russia wanted to join NATO, not China. IMO we screwed up by forcing them into bed with China.
I have a good 2015 video on. I had it on off and on today. So far 50 minutes in. He makes sense to me.
He says the US is encouraging Ukraine to act out and will end up wrecked in the process.
He has some good ethnic maps and polling maps early on. 6:11, 7:02, 7:12, 7:38, 8:28, 8:45. Most in the West want to join EU, most in the East do not. Most in West want to join NATO, not in the East.
He says the first time things heat up with China we will forget about Ukraine. Most Ukrainians do not want to break up, even those in the East.
He said the US goal is to peel Ukraine away from Russia but Russia will see Ukraine wrecked before they allow Ukraine to join NATO. He hopes that the US goal changes to making Ukraine better off and a buffer state, not wrecking it.
In Apr 2008 the US said Ukraine and Georgia would become part of NATO. He thought Germany and France would kill that idea and he said he was wrong. The Germans do not want to lead.
He said the fascists in the West really spook the Russians. Yes there are neo Nazis in the Ukrainian West.
https://youtu.be/JrMiSQAGOS4Why is Ukraine the West's Fault? Featuring John Mearsheimer
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Sep 25, 2015