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Professor of International Relations, John Mearsheimer, in 2015:

" The West is leading Ukraine down the primrose path and the end result is that Ukraine is going to get wrecked. "

Fifty American foreign policy leaders wrote to President Bill Clinton in 1997 that pushing NATO’s borders eastward would be “a policy error of historic proportions. ..... that NATO expansion will decrease allied security and unsettle European stability … In Russia, NATO expansion, which continued to be opposed across the entire political spectrum, would strengthen undercut those who favor reform and cooperation with the West, bring the Russians to question the entire post-Cold War settlement, and galvanize resistance in the Duma …” (and here we are today)

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in Mearsheimer’s 2014 article, he wrote

“it is the Russians, not the West, who ultimately get to decide what counts as a threat to them.” .......But of course the same thing could have been written about the U.S. before the invasion of Iraq. ...the only question about that war was whether it was wise or foolish for U.S. power, not whether it was right or wrong.