Four minutes and 21 seconds into his YouTube interview with podcast-journalist Aaron Mate, John Mearsheimer, a political scientist, says this: "Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg [former Norwegian prime minister] made it clear that Ukraine would not be admitted into NATO until it had prevailed in the conflict [with Russia]."The depravity of this reality notwithstanding, Mearsheimer addressed the purely pragmatic, utilitarian aspect of the geopolitical position into which Ukraine has been thrust. Ukraine cannot win the war with Russia. Therefore, deduces Mearsheimer, Ukraine will not be brought into the NATO alliance.America has engineered Ukraine's current existential reality by purging the...