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John Mearsheimer

What John Mearsheimer thinks about Europe

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Political scientist at the University of Chicago, author of The Tragedy of Great Power Politics and the founding statement of offensive realism.

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5 dated positions, 2023, in their own words. Our reading of what John Mearsheimer has said — not written or endorsed by them.

  1. Our readingThere is a good chance the Second World War would have happened even without Hitler.

    Their wordsAnd I believe that there is a good chance you would've had World War II in the absence of Hitler. I believe that Germany was very powerful, it was deeply worried about the balance of power in Europe, and it had strong incentives to behave aggressively in the late 1930s, early 1940s.

    ↗John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW3 | Lex Fridman Podcast #401youtube.com 7th of 22 in this recording

  3. Our readingThere is no evidence Putin intended to conquer Ukraine, and the army he sent could not have done it.

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    Their wordsThere's no evidence he was interested in conquering all of Ukraine. There was no evidence beforehand that he was interested in conquering any of Ukraine. And there's no way that an army that had 190,000 troops, at the most, could have conquered all of Ukraine, it's just impossible.

    ↗John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW3 | Lex Fridman Podcast #401youtube.com 8th of 22 in this recording

  5. Our readingNATO expansion into Ukraine was the principal cause of the war, which makes the West principally responsible for it.

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    Their wordsAnd of course, what they were negotiating about was NATO expansion into Ukraine, which was the principal cause of the war. People in the West don't want to hear that argument because if it is true, which it is, then the West is principally responsible for this bloodbath that's now taking place.

    ↗John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW3 | Lex Fridman Podcast #401youtube.com 9th of 22 in this recording

  7. Our readingThe war in Ukraine will not end in a peace agreement but in an unstable frozen conflict.

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    Their wordsI don't think there's any real prospect of a meaningful peace agreement. I think it's almost impossible. I think the best you can hope for at this point is, at some point the shooting stops, you have a ceasefire, and then you have a frozen conflict. And that frozen conflict will not be highly stable.

    ↗John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW3 | Lex Fridman Podcast #401youtube.com 11th of 22 in this recording

  9. Our readingHispanic immigrants are integrating into the American mainstream faster than the European immigrants of the nineteenth century did.

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    Their wordsAll the evidence is that Hispanics are integrating into the American mainstream more quickly and more effectively than the European immigrant groups that came starting around 1835.

    ↗John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW3 | Lex Fridman Podcast #401youtube.com 22nd of 22 in this recording