war 13
- NATO expansion into Ukraine was the principal cause of the war, which makes the West principally responsible for it.
- The October 7th attack was resistance to the Israeli occupation, not a response to the Saudi normalisation talks.
John Mearsheimer
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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What John Mearsheimer says most about
America 5
- Hispanic immigrants are integrating into the American mainstream faster than the European immigrants of the nineteenth century did.
- The Israel lobby is an ordinary American interest group rather than a cabal, and it happens to be extremely powerful.
Europe 5
- Hispanic immigrants are integrating into the American mainstream faster than the European immigrants of the nineteenth century did.
- NATO expansion into Ukraine was the principal cause of the war, which makes the West principally responsible for it.
government 4
- States do not merely defend the power they have: they seize every opportunity to gain more that looks cheap and likely to succeed.
- Power is the currency of international relations, and states are driven above all to maximise how much of it they control.
Russia 4
- NATO expansion into Ukraine was the principal cause of the war, which makes the West principally responsible for it.
- Russia's refusal to accept NATO on its border is exactly what the United States demands for its own neighbourhood.
China 2
- Deterring China over Taiwan does not require being able to beat it, which the United States probably cannot do anyway.
- China's leaders think in realist terms and America's do not, which is the more dangerous half of the pairing.