Comments by "PeterC" (@peterc4082) on "Why did experts fail to predict Russia's invasion of Ukraine?" video.

Merasheimer is not an analyst. He's a sophist and he tries to fit reality into his theory he uses to sell books. He's like one of the old astronomers who have to come up with more and more epicycles to explain the motions of our Solar System planets.
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@ninak8370 Why should NATO fall apart because some non-nuclear and largely friendly former Russian conquered states left their forced alliance with Russia? Ignorant people such as you, should not post nonsense here but go back to school.
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@mitchyoung93 ?? Nordstream 1 and 2? You are ignorant, mate.
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M's a hack.
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@ianshaver8954 Mearsheimer has a PhD. He's not stupid. He's just a b-ser. And people give him a free pass. Not bad info. He is pro big empire politics, except for USA, USA is No 1, rest is big powers >>> smaller.
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@allo-other Why not use the term worldview? Anyway Putin's process is rational, if you take Russia for an imperialist state which it always has been. It's just you Westerners who have been kissing Russian butt. Take the French. After the defeat of Napoleon the French experience of Russians is the temporary occupation where Russian officers paid hard currency for every chicken their soldiers looted. The French even picked up a term from the Russians, bistro. Putin is and was rational if you consider Russia an imperial state, he may just have been given bad info or did not predict the aid Ukraine would get.
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The West was making business with Russia. German economic growth was based on Russia. Nordstream I and 2. Cheap hydrocarbons. Russian investments. Us former communist bloc countries are EU 2 and NATO 2 and we are trash for all Westerners, including the people here. That's just how life is. They chose Russia and Putin overplayed his cards. If he did not invade but continued to coerce and pressure Europe he would have ultimately won and remained Europe's darling. He lost his nerve and invaded. But even now the Germans and the Austrians would like nothing better to do than to return to the previous status quo with Russia. It's all about money.
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@mitchyoung93 Mitch, pay reparations to your Native Americans and Black people. Pay Iraq the billions for killing so many of their people and then we'll talk you Russian troll.
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@vladimirnovakovic3495 They spend more per capita than Germany I think on defense. What did you do Vlad?
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@Lanedl1 Because you or your countries hold us in disdain. We are lower value humans to all of you. Racism is rife in the West.
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@torbenalstrup3902 Yes Russia with all these oligarchs and imperial ambitions.
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Mearsheimer is a slimy snake. In a talk with Lex Friedman he says, Russia deserves her sphere of influence but China does not. Russia can have Ukraine but China must not have Taiwan because that will interfere with the US sphere of influence in China's backyard. He is a total hack and he contrives his points. He's a sophist. There is a debate with Bartosiak and Radek Sikorski one can also view and Mearsheimer is not a good analyst at all.
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