Did John Mearsheimer Admit that Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Would Never Have Occurred Under Donald Trump’s Watch?
Mearsheimer exposes some uncomfortable truths about the foreign policy establishment.
The other day I came across a video of international relations scholar John Measheimer being interviewed by Jasmin Kosubek, a German journalist and news personality who used to work for RT DE, that was published on June 19, 2022. The topic of discussion was the Russo-Ukrainian conflict, of which Mearsheimer has spoken prophetically about over the last 8 years since the Euromaidan conflict kicked off in 2014.
Mearsheimer is one of the sharpest minds in international relations and is a consummate free thinker — something that’s increasingly rare in the interventionist monoculture that is foreign affairs. Any time he voices dissent against the foreign policy Blob, Measheimer is burnt in effigy by his academic colleagues and the regime media.
During this interview, Mearsheimer not only shared his thoughts about the present Russo-Ukrainian conflict but also had choice words for neoliberal Democrats and their progressive bedfellows who have universally supported heightening this conflict. In addition, Mearsheimer made the case that had former president Donald Trump stayed in office, there likely would not have been a Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Mearsheimer called attention to “Trump’s basic instincts” of hating NATO and wanting to build amicable relations with Russian leader Vladimir Putin as to why he believes that it would have been less likely that Russia invades Ukraine under Trump’s watch. Though, Mearsheimer made some caveats here.
Like many seasoned observers of international relations, Mearsheimer understands how embedded interventionist beliefs are within the unelected foreign policy establishment. Irrespective of whichever president is in charge, this foreign policy “Blob” will always get its way. Mearsheimer argued that Trump’s realist foreign policy instincts would have likely been overridden by the foreign policy establishment, thereby creating a similar geopolitical scenario to the one that we see today.
Nevertheless, the international relations scholar still believes that Trump was a marked improvement over most national figures when it comes to foreign policy. For Mearsheimer, this was most apparent when juxtaposed to Democrats, who have become fanatically anti-Russia in the last 6 years. For one, Trump is not as ideologically possessed as many of his counterparts in both parties. He still largely views foreign policy through a transactional, not ideological, lens. It would not be an exaggeration to suggest that Trump could have negotiated a settlement with Russia that NATO membership to Ukraine would be completely off the table, while the country still maintained its territorial integrity. Contrast that to Democrats, who are overwhelmingly ideological in their foreign policy outlook
Measheimer declared that the “Democratic Party believes foolishly that the reason Hillary Clinton lost to Donald Trump is because Putin intervened on behalf of Trump against Clinton.”
He sharply added, “Most Democrats are incapable of admitting that Hillary Clinton was a terrible candidate and trump was a very sophisticated candidate”
The Chicago University observed that “whether you like him [Trump] or not he was a sophisticated candidate… she [Clinton] was a terrible candidate and he beat her fair and square.”
Mearsheimer stressed that Clinton’s loss in the 2016 presidential elections was not due to Putin meddling in the US elections. He provided some context to why Russophobia is so pervasive in legacy institutions:
“Joe Biden is a Democrat…the Democratic Party is basically in control of both the Senate and the House. The mainstream media in the United States is filled with people who suffer from acute russophobia.”
Naturally, when Russia commenced its special military operation on February 24th, the anti-Russia propaganda was cranked to 11 in the media, the White House, and other capitals in the Collective West.
Anti-Russia hysteria continues in the present. It’s a sign of the irrational times we live in. The ruling classes in the West are caught in an interventionist trance. As a result, they will go to great lengths to stop Russia in Ukraine, economic consequences be damned.
We’re already seeing inflation go through the roof in various Western countries. Coupled with higher energy costs, various countries, especially those in Europe, could be on the verge of witnessing wholesale reductions in their living standards.
That’s the price many countries will have to pay for their ruling classes’ myopic foreign policies. Sober voices like John Mearsheimer are desperately needed for the West to correct course during this epoch of geopolitical turmoil.
However, it seems the powers that be prefer to ignore Mearsheimer’s calls for restraint and are much more content with doubling down on the saber-rattling towards Russia. If this cohort is allowed to continue to indulge in interventionist fantasies, the West will be in for a rude, geopolitical awakening.
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