Me obsessed with Mearsheimer? That is a good laugh.
It is
YOU and many others who are obsessed with Mearsheimer regarding his thesis of great power geopolitics.
In my post...
Is there an actual counter attack or is this fluff? https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraine-mounts-counteroffensive-to-drive-russians-back-from-kyiv-key-cities-11647428858 Recent article ~ 45 minutes ago
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I did exactly what you and others wanted, which was to put the US and Russia under what Mearsheimer wanted: amoral great powers responding to a perceived national security threat. I said 'amoral', not 'immoral', look up the difference.
The core of your defense of Russia is that it is the US/NATO who are at fault for supposedly offering NATO membership to Ukraine, of which, Poutine
PERCEIVED that
POTENTIAL membership to be a national security threat. I have seen versions of how Poutine was 'cornered' or was not offered an 'exit' and so on. So I did
EXACTLY what you guys wanted. I put the US squarely under Mearsheimer's argument.
Situation 1:
The US is a great power and is the leader of the democracy bloc.
Cuba is a neighbor and is a member of the communist bloc, not of the Warsaw Pact in particular, but of the communist bloc in general.
Cuba hosts nuclear weapons from the Soviet Union, the leader of the communist bloc.
The US responded with a blockade of Cuba.
The US negotiated with the Soviet Union for a successful settlement.
The Soviet Union withdraw the nuclear weapons.
The US ended the blockade.
Situation 2:
Russia was once a Soviet state, leader of the Soviet Union, and leader of the communist bloc.
Russia today is a great power and is no member or leader of any bloc.
Ukraine was once a Soviet state, not an allied country but a member of the Soviet Union who had full jurisdiction over Ukraine.
Ukraine today is an independent country next to Russia and is no member of any bloc.
Ukraine expressed an interest in being a member of the democratic bloc and specifically NATO but no actual admittance occurred.
Russia responded by invading Ukraine.
Do you see any moral attribution to either great powers above? Do you deny the events listed? The issue here is responses to a
PERCEIVED national security threat,
WHEN did each great power responded, and
HOW did each great power responded. In other words, I entered
YOUR playhouse, opened up your rules, and you ran away.
The reason you, and anyone else who subscribed to Mearsheimer's thesis, ran away from the situations I listed above is because you guys know there is a point where the response breached a reasonable line, and that there is no defense of what Poutine did. Everyone love to bring up Cuba to show how the US reacted which would somehow absolved Russia of the crime of invading Ukraine. So I obliged all of you. And y'all scattered.