HenryMakow.com – Feb 26, 2022
“The United States and its European allies share most of the responsibility for the crisis. The taproot of the trouble is NATO enlargement, the central element of a larger strategy to move Ukraine out of Russia’s orbit and integrate it into the West.
“The West is leading Ukraine down the primrose path & the end result is Ukraine is going to get wrecked,”
—John Mearsheimer
The final straw was President Zelensky’s declaration of intent to restore Ukraine as a nuclear power.
This, they say, sealed the invasion.
Although this article was written more than seven years ago, it could have been written yesterday.
Professor John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1982
Foreign Affairs September/October 2014 Issue
Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West’s Fault
By John J. Mearsheimer – (Excerpts by henrymakow.com)
…For Putin, the illegal overthrow of Ukraine’s democratically-elected and pro-Russian president, Viktor Yanukovych in February 22 2014 — (the eight-year anniversary of current invasion) — was the final straw. He responded by taking Crimea, a peninsula he feared would host a NATO naval base, and working to destabilize Ukraine until it abandoned its efforts to join the West.
Putin’s push back should have come as no surprise….
THE WESTERN AFFRONT
a very little little known kidnap torture and murder of a 15 year old English boy by 5 black men
was hardly publicised but we get the small time drug dealer stephen lawrence rammed down our throats every week
This is whats called “institutional racism”
like when our government taught us to hate german people in 2 world wars
see this below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIFhDMzUJe8
From what you can read on here by Mearsheimer, is bunkum.
Kiev has been committing war crimes in the Dombas. Kiev agreed to the Minsk 1 & 2 agreements, but failed to do as agreed, and the West did little to make UKraine comply with its obligations. You cannot use artillery against civilians for 8 yrs and then say the Russian adventure in UKraine is illegal, its not illegal, especially in light of Zelensky wanting nukes to use against Russia.
I am amazed by Putin’s patience. The sheeple in the Dombas and Crimea are essentially Russian. The Nazi mob in Kiev has nothing but bad intent for these sheeple, aside from Russian naval base on the Crimea peninsula.
I should also point out that sheeple communications in UKraine are working, so is the water and power. The Russian invasion of UKraine has been ever so soft. Putin has only deployed about a third of his forces and to note, UKrainian forces are helping the Russians to protect Chernobly from a UKraine/NATO false flag, and the staff are working normally at the site.
Despite the Nazi regimen in Kiev, the last genuine pre coup data (I don’t like data) showed that the majority of UKrainian sheeple were more favourable to Russia than the EU.
Putin paused his advance because Zelensky said he wanted to talk terms, he lied, so he’s blown that option.
This operation isn’t like the US shock & awe blood baths of the Middle East. Sheeple have very short memories about US and NATO war crimes. If Zelensky stays in UKraine, he will either take his own life, be killed by his own men, killed by Russian forces, or be captured by the Russians and tried for his crimes, and that goes for anyone else in the Nazi regime.
As others on social media say, be very weary of fake news claims, be extremely skeptical about images and video. From what I’ve seen, much of it looks doctored and degraded. As to the sanctions, they were coming anyway and they will have a more damaging effect on global banking, than Russia.
Sanctions are an act of war, they are the last acts before a hot war starts. The removal of Russia from the SWIFT payments systems is the last big card the West has left to play.
I agree with Putin’s actions, but I think he’s being far too soft, even if he ramps things up from now.
The courageous American patriot John J. Mearsheimer co-authored the powerful, well documented book, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy with Stephen M. Walt. He has also authored pro-Palestinian articles.
Perhaps it’s a Putin “took the bait” situation.
Did the NWO gang, which likely controls the Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (the Jewish comedian who played a Ukrainian President in a popular television comedy series), force him to use violence in the Donbass area to inspire Putin to invade Ukraine? If yes, perhaps they wonder what took Putin so long to invade Ukraine.
The goals? Destroy Russia’s relationship with Germany and the rest of Europe? Increase energy prices to damage economies (easier to usher in NWO)? Get Russia involved in an ugly Gorilla warfare situation with Ukrainian nationalists and stooges from other countries, for years? Destroy Russia’s reputation worldwide? Set the stage to crush Russia financially due to the resistance of Russia to join the woke agenda and the NWO plans for the world?
The way the situation plays out may give some clues if the NWO gang baited Putin to invade Ukraine.
I am 84 years old
i come froma very pariotic family
and lived in East London during the war.
Not everybody was fooled by churchill and the jews by any means
my family would with neighbours crowd into our little front room
to hear the broadcasts of William Joyce who constantly told us
Germany was fighting for all people against the jew.
During the war many families had to go to the ewish oney lenders to pay rent or to buy extra food from them, at the end of the war the jews owned many of our homes.
people read abour Lord haw-haw not knowing whata great patriot this man really was
For the truth of the war neville Chamberlians secretary Archibald maule ramsey wrote
” the nameless war ” its online read it
Quite a wise comment from Carl Jones. Let me just quote from a book published in 2104, ‘Ukraine in the crosshairs’ by William Dunkerley: UNHCR comment on June 27, 2014, ‘since the start of the year around 110,000 Ukrainais have arrived in Russia.’ then next month July 9 it announced, ‘half a million refugees were already in Russia after fleeing combat in Ukraine.’
So in less than a year after the US-sponsored neo-Nazi coup, a massive ethnic-cleansing program in East Ukraine was in full swing.
Our leaders now support Japan taking on China and Ukrainian Nazis against Russia. They joined the Axis powers and became the old enemy. And still people call them leftist and commie.
I’m with Carl Jones on this. He say’s what I was going to say, and he put it far more eloquently, and clearly, than I would or could have done.
Mole: so, so funny, me eloquent? My English technical ain’t that good. Dad was a copper, my time in school was xxxxing hell. But thanks all the same.
Brian USA: well taking the bait is one way to see it. No man is an island. During his time in power, Putin has been head and shoulders above the rest. Simply, he is the best statesman that I know of. He has played the Western game, as required to get Russia working, but at every step Russia have been kicked in the teeth.
Russia had a problem, give up and hand the country over to the City Crime Cartels, or to make a stand. 8yrs is a long time to play the Dombas game out. There was nowhere left to go, Putin was damned if he did, damned if he didn’t.
At least this way there’s a very good chance the West will collapse. The gas could be turned off, it will screw the EU and UK, but it will also trash the US, because the inflation you’ve already had could could quadruple and more.
Russia can power and fuel its economy, they can feed themselves, so isolation is hard, but they’ll survive. For Europe, doubtful that they can, and the US, we’ll, they don’t even recognise thier problems.
This is all CIA-KGB-Mossad propaganda that there’s a ‘Nazi regime’ in Ukraine, since Zelensky is a Jew..its amazing how many morons on here fall for this moronic propaganda…They must concoct various phony deceptive motives for the invasion/war, for in reality both heads of State are Jewish (Zelensky/Putin) & are controlled by the same Zionist Cryptocrats to kill off more white gentiles…
@ CARL JONES
my deutsche middleclass green ruling
homeowners party wanted abolish all
wood-coal stowes by law . but since this
middleclass shickeria has their luxury
stowes + coming energy shortage they
probably will abstain . that suits me as
im poor stowe dependent .
HOLY ENERGYCRISIS COME !
A Ukrainian
FAKE COMEDIAN,
CRISIS ACTOR-IN-CHIEF &
PRESIDENTIAL DRAMA QUEEN
Stages the Melodrama of the Millennium
https://stateofthenation.co/?p=108093#more-108093
The crime of putting Asians and Blacks over Europeans in Europe, where we have been for at least 30 thousand years, while no-one else was because of the climate e.g. two miles height of ice, is punished in one way or another, but perhaps only in the worst way, with the collapse of White society, which keeps all the parasitic cretins alive here.
I find the comment by The Duran about the politics of all this on Youtube and Rumble and Odysee amd others, clear and useful = sophisticated.
Mearsheimer recently gave an interview about the invasion also Scott Ritter’s thoughts are well worth listening to. NATO’s encirclement of Russia is just too reminiscent of that carried out against 1930’s Germany. Read “Hitler’s Revolution” by Richard Tedor. And like Hitler, Putin is being accused of being a player in some game of deception, well it doesn’t seem a game to me.
As for sanctions i think we know the trajectory of Europes economy, Russia will see this out.
Wow…so this is where the pro Russian lunatic fringe members comes to shed their salty years?! I suggest you all buy shares in tissue paper stocks given how much you’ll all be balling your eyes out while Russia continues its acts of self flagellation in front of the entire world . Putin’s action in starting this war amounts to the biggest self inflicted wound a crazy autocratic dictator could impose on the nation. An old man, sending young men out to die, in order to secure a legacy no sane person could respect, is how that psycho will be remembered when the dust settles and I suspect there will be more salty tears flowing on this site when that unfolds too.
Astraea: I agree about the Duran and associated channels, but they are very careful about speaking their minds. Their choice of language is fairly mild. IMHO, Scott Ritter has give the best analysis. When you load SR and economic truths, then you see why bankrupt US and UK will be very happy to see Europe trashed.
antiseptic: France is the best placed country to ride out the energy crisis. The land of wood burns and nuclear power. If the French cared, they could slash fuel taxes, but they don’t. Why ruin a 50yr habit?