Prof. John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Chicago. He is almost alone in having argued since 2014 that Ukraine has a vastly more complicated history with Russia than almost all Western “experts” and commentators wish not to acknowledge.
While Professor Mearsheimer does not approve Putin’s actions, he also argues the West need be more diplomatically astute in not creating Ukraine into the cause of a nuclear war between Russia and Western democracies.
I have followed Professor Mearsheimer efforts to steer America, in particular, away from yet another armed conflict, which is infinitely more dangerous that America’s past “forever wars.”
The prof’s logic should be obvious to all reasonable people, but, naturally, it does not agree with the desires of warmongers in the US and, to a lesser extend, those of the same attitude in Europe.
In his recent lecture on Ukraine at The Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, Professor Mearsheimer reiterates, for the umpteenth time, why the West should give up on Ukraine being the litmus test of Western determination to defend democracy and focus on non-gang ho postures with the aim of settling the issue via negotiation and, as Henry Kissinger recently put it, with Kiev realizing it needs to make concessions in the process.