Why is Ukraine the West's Fault? Featuring John Mearsheimer

Let out ukraine it s not interesting for you…algeria is better petrol gaz…une menace pour l occident des missiles russes pointes vers l europe…

as a ukrainian before the 2013 revolution, i always wanted ukraine to be part of the west

Its centuries war of Ukrainians with Russian for reasons everybody knows. Germany and Russia heavily depends on Ukrainian history as Ukraine is their origin. Ukrainian people are very grateful to USA to support and help Ukraine in this war.

And look out now

Because it isn't. The problem in Ukraine is Muscovite imperialism. Like Mersheimer you might just accept that imperialism and appease it. Or you might resist it. That's what we're doing in Ukraine.

It's sad to witness seemingly intelligent people saying absolutely idiotic stuff, which they have no idea about! About 20 years ago my friend dropped an idea in a conversation that China poses threat to the global security. I said no, it is russia which will cause a real threat. Without any deep and personal knowledge of the russian mentality, that Dr's analysis is laughable, if noy harmful, because it suits the kremlin, itself.

Insightful comments by prof Mearsheimer. and it’s hard to believe that Washington people are living in a dream with complacency

The Americans have exploited Germany's WW2 history and used it to effectively cudgel its politicians who are still made to cower in the self-perceived shadow of Hitler. Time to let bygones be bygones. How many more humiliations must the German people be made to endure (e.g. Nordstream II terrorism, US troops occupying their land. etc.) before they are pushed to reject the politics of submission and fealty to the rapidly declining American Empire and elect a new strongly nationalist leader. Perhaps it may well work out for them ….the second time round.

13:18 Democracy has to be an organic social-cultural evolution for the state in question. Skip steps and install Western back poly-archy Democracy; you get exploitation from transnational corporations- resources and laborers. In turn, it creates instability.////40:35 hmm, Mearsheimer offers valuable insight as a realist. However, his assessment of China is dated.

This guy professor is most old American communist. Most bigger
Lies ever I heard.
it seems that he is on the payroll of the Russians

I am of Russian origin and really astonished that such an information comes to light after western countries influence their information and ban the others which are to their opposite. Nobody speak about the roots of the war! To avoid the wars in the future we need think more about the causes of the problem! This war could have been avoided by dropping the egoism and listen more to each others concerns. All this needed to be understood by the governor’s of all parties involved in that mess.

Chicago is a joke and is exactly where this clown belongs. This channel should take this video down due to sheer shame, but Chicagoans don't Know what shame is.

Now we see that East Ukraine wants to live separatly from West Ukraine, mostly. And the basic mistake of the Collective West has always been the thought that Russia acts like them, by expansional way, but not, Russia has never acted like this. If we fight for something, we fight only for our safety and our life.

It's quite amazing to hear this lunatic today.

This man is literally ignoring the fact that russia planned this war back in 2000s by promoting hate speach to ukraine nation and culture. Completely ignoring russia's imperialistic nature.
Completely ignoring the fact that putin is a war crimminal.
I don't even want to continue, because clever people just get it and the ones who's vulnerable to russian propaganda (on which they spend billions a year to spread misinformation) just won't

Impressive given that this was 7 years ago. I can understand some of the dilemma’s put forward on US and EU geopolitical acting. However the lecture is almost completely ignoring the fascist and kleptocratic DNA of the Russian leadership and elite. I also miss the notion that there actually were many people in Ukraine that wanted to modernize and get rid of post-soviet kleptocracy. Russia has created many semi-frozen divide-and-conquer conflicts. Where Russia appears, destruction, chaos and feudal dependence rule. Moreover, Putin was running out of time as his oil & gas leverage was going to reduce with the EU energy transition gaining traction and his own health deteriorating.

Russian leadership is only sensitive to very strong portions of their own medicine (a hard punch in the face). I can think about some things that the US and Europe could have done differently (especially in the mid 90's), but overall this clash seemed more or less inevitable to me. Many empires demise slowly and even gracefully, but some go down with a bang. Especially if adapting to new realities is considered off the table.

I wonder how much Putler paid them back then…

How wrong you were by showing your weakness to crime against humanity …. History is repeating itself and people just have a short memory….

43:38 This man predicted what is happening today, 7 years ago. He said Ukraine is going to get wrecked if they keep playing tough.