Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West’s Fault

The Liberal Delusions That Provoked Putin

By: John J. Mearsheimer

Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell

Conventional wisdom in the West blames the Ukraine crisis on Russian aggression. But this account is wrong: Washington and its European allies actually share most of the responsibility, having spent decades pushing east into Russia’s natural sphere of interest.

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Interesting points, however...

The author does a good job emphasizing the history and point that Ukraine should stay neutral from a geopolitical standpoint. However, I disagree that it should not have the right to self determination. Foreign thinkers and politicians, both Eastern and Western, have seemingly always dictated the actions and history of Ukraine as well as many other Eastern European countries.
Historically, Ukraine was and still is of no consequence to Western nations. In 1932-33, while the Stalinist regime starved 7 million Ukrainians to death, the West did nothing and even journalists wrote articles stating all was well ignoring the problem. In 1944 at the Yalta Conference, Ukraine and Eastern Europe was sold out by Churchill and Roosevelt to Stalin instigating the Iron Curtain for over 50 years. Even in more recent times, the Western powers only become more intrested in Ukraine if Russia is rattled and makes a move.
Thinking that Russia is only making these aggressive moves because the Western powers wanted to expand NATO and relations into Ukraine is simply naive. Russia wants to regain its lost territories and expand back to what it historically claims is theirs. The author sould review this from a historical perspective, specifically going back to the Treaty of Pereyaslav in 1654.

Vindicated by history

At this point, the prescience of this piece is not merely a matter of prognostication but a fact of history. For this reason alone it’s worthy of consideration.

Finally, informed logic!

The US wouldn’t want Russia in Mexico - why shouldn’t Russia feel threatened by the West’s interference in Ukraine?

Consequences of American Bureaucrats Usurpation of US Constitution Principles

In 38 minutes, learn the core facts on who is responsible for the now ridiculous war in Ukraine, from an expert on the history of the U.S. bureaucrats and other country’s bureaucrats, bad behavior.

Cold hard facts

Everything that supporters of Ukraine and the deep state’s coup and subsequent terror campaign against ethnic Russians do not know. The Ukraine cult is much like the vaccine cult: they don’t know what they don’t know and everything they know is wrong.