Comments by "Wolfs Winkel" (@wolfswinkel8906) on "Джон Миршаймер: Израиль-Палестина, Россия-Украина, Китай, НАТО и война | Лекс Фридман Подкаст #401" video.

@Intreductor of course you in eastern Europe have the right to make self destructive decisions and endure the consequences of those decisions. The entire concepts of the Monroe Doctrine and the balance of power have gone completely over your head.
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@opinion4755 you're working extra hard to discredit Mearsheimer with your several comments on this video. Can you explain a few cases where "his insight is not very deep"?
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 @joshbell5387 yeah... It would've been a more explosive interview in March last year, and it would've aged spectacularly well.
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@trevorv9218 they will never answer this question. Mearsheimer's logic is flawless.
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 @amotriuc what "important knowledge"? Do educate us. This should be interesting.
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@amotriuc where did he "admit it"? Post a link or name the video title. Enough of these random assertions that come out faster than they can be verified. Show your proof now or stop lying, choose one
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 @jonsnow7092 he isn't wrong, in face he was very right about the fact that western lethal aid to Ukraine would only prolong the war and not necessarily result in a Ukrainian victory.
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@MyroslavOhorodnyk absolutely. He has abided by the Budapest Memorndum for Belarus and Kazakhstan to the smallest detail. He has stood by Syria's side through thick and thin, and upheld important trade deals with Germany until they ruined it with sanctions. He has respected the sovereignty of all countries that maintain their neutrality as long as they remain so. Pretty trustworthy to me.
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@jonsnow7092 and how do eastern European countries feel? Russia has had a relatively peaceful relationship with these countries ever since the split of the USSR. They've traded and traveled between each other, even after several of them joined NATO which Russia perceived as a threat. Let's stop pretending like Putin didn't warn against NATO expansion several times. In spite of that Russia remained cordial.
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Peter Zeihan is laughable.
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@wolfpants plenty. First of all you need to understand that there were 3 peace agreements between Russia and Ukraine. Three of them. Any of them could've been honored, but the narrative at the time was "appeasement doesn't work on dictators". The West frowned at the idea of peace with Russia, probably perceiving that Russia was weak and this was a good opportunity to hurt them and probably break up Russia. So Boris Johnson paid Zelensky a visit, Zelensky had his chief negotiator Denis Kireev executed, and the rest is history.
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@Intreductor "over your head", like I said. There are things you simply will never understand.
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@joshlyons1005 "sending weapons and ammunition to Ukraine will only prolong the war and not necessarily result in a Ukrainian victory".- John Mearsheimer He was right as heck, and he said this over a year ago. He's ahead of the times.
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@opinion4755 1. I thought the US and Russia already had some sort of normal relationship by now. I can't say much for government policy, but I vividly remember Putin having some kind of personality cult among certain members of the American Right, who praised him for his "masculinity and strength" with several issues in particular found intriguing, like his dead right hand KGB walking style. People used to freely travel between both countries and they maintained several areas of cooperation (like SALT2, START 2, and the INF treaties), and the international space station among several I cannot even have all the time in the world to include. Why the heck are you making it seem like the US and Russia have been enemies forever? The opportunities have always been there. Well... The neocons and corporate war cheerleaders would beg to differ
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@opinion4755 2. I mean I'm not even Mearsheimer but his ideas make perfect sense. Look at where we were at the end of the Cold War and look at where we are now. Clearly, NATO has expanded. And to Moscow, the enemy has simply decided to continue the Cold War. Don't come at me with things like sovereignty where security concerns or nuclear powers are concerned. The Monroe doctrine (which you must have come across while "studying his work"🙄) definitely explains why Russia would see such a thing as a security threat and respond.
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When this war started i opened my mind really wide and took in as much information I could find, before the media censorship campaign of the West took hold of the internet. I discovered Vladimir Posner first, then I found John Mearsheimer and then Jeffery Sachs. All of them Americans. I discovered the truth early. All their different arguments helped me understand what this war was really about.
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@opinion4755 not only did you neither give the name of this "essay" nor post a link to it, you also insist there's "really a lot" without providing any evidence. Not even an excerpt from the "essay" so we can analyse to know if any words were taken out of context or Putin was misquoted- nothing. And that's why Mearsheimer is right. There's simply no evidence to suggest a timeline, scope or ambition behind the alleged "imperialism and expansionism". Especially considering the fact that Russia and Ukraine had great relations under the presidencies of Leonid Kuchma and Viktor Yanukovych. Give it a rest, bro.
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@yevgenykrymov1723 Mearsheimer is not like Hunter Biden.
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 @georgecurington8156 like Tulsi Gabbard and Tucker Carlson and everyone else that has a different opinion from the corporate establishment, am I right? 🤡
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@joshlyons1005 no it wasn't "pretty obvious" because at the time, mainstream media narrative was the West will just send weapons to Ukraine and they'll defeat Russia in Ukraine, while backed up by the sanctions that were meant to cripple Russia's ability to sustain the war. All the analysts and experts from Breedlove to Petraeus were saying the exact opposite of John Mearsheimer. None of them said anything about Russia's security concerns at the time. Get real and watch the videos of the Munich Security Conference again. For you to say Mearsheimer's predictions on the Russia Ukraine issue are "pretty obvious", makes me keenly aware of how much of a joke you really are inside.
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@amotriuc I listened to every speech by Putin since the tensions began to rise during the Munich Security Conference in February 2022, and I can assure you that he said no such thing. The burden of proof is on he who alleges. Stop making things up or repeating what some talking head on CNN told you.
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 @johnhume484 💯
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Of course. Immediately the Munich security conference was over in Feb 2022, Putin made a speech in which he mentioned Svoboda and their ideology, and the extent to which their agents had permeated into the security architecture of Ukraine. He knew exactly what he was dealing with: fanatical anti Russians bolstered by US dollars. He knew they would stop at nothing to hurt Russia if he didn't act preemptively.
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