{"id":250132,"date":"2022-02-27T08:26:39","date_gmt":"2022-02-27T08:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=250132"},"modified":"2022-02-28T17:06:15","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T17:06:15","slug":"west-used-ukraine-to-threaten-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=250132","title":{"rendered":"West Used Ukraine to Threaten Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"

HenryMakow.com \u2013 Feb 26, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n

“<\/strong>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 \u00a0to move Ukraine out of Russia’s orbit and integrate it into the West.<\/strong>
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\n“The West is leading Ukraine down the primrose path & the end result is Ukraine is going to get wrecked,” <\/strong><\/p>\n

—John Mearsheimer<\/strong><\/p>\n

The final straw was President Zelensky’s declaration of intent to restore Ukraine as a nuclear power.<\/p>\n

This, they say, sealed the invasion.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Although this article was written more than seven years ago, it could have been written yesterday.<\/p>\n

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<\/strong><\/p>\n

Foreign Affairs<\/em> September\/October 2014 Issue
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\nWhy the Ukraine Crisis Is the West’s Fault<\/em><\/a>
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\n<\/strong>By John J. Mearsheimer \u2013 (Excerpts by henrymakow.com)<\/strong><\/h2>\n

…<\/strong>For Putin, the illegal overthrow of Ukraine’s democratically-elected and pro-Russian president,<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n

Putin’s push back should have come as no surprise….<\/p>\n

THE WESTERN AFFRONT<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since the neocon coup in 2014, Russia had made it clear it will invade if Ukraine does not remain neutral. This article, by Prof. John Mearsheimer, was written seven years ago but it accurately forecasts what is happening now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":250134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,58,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Current_Affairs","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=250132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250135,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250132\/revisions\/250135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/250134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=250132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=250132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=250132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}