The Height of Western Ignorance, John Mearsheimer, Disillusionment at it's best

The talk was given in Japan.
The date was December 26th, 2014.
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John Mearsheimer acknowledges that great power politics is back on the table. As such he terms the Western acts as Careless on the eve of great power competition. This is the height of Western Ignorance.

Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022, marking a steep escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014 following the Ukrainian Revolution of Dignity. The Russo-Ukrainian War is an ongoing war that began in February 2014 between Russia (together with pro-Russian separatist forces) and Ukraine. Both nations were members of the communist Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in 1991. Ukraine continues to claim Crimea as an integral part of its territory, supported by most foreign governments and United Nations General Assembly Resolution 68/262, although Russia and some other UN member states recognize Crimea as part of the Russian Federation.

John Joseph Mearsheimer is an American political scientist and international relations scholar, who belongs to the realist school of thought. He is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. He has been described as the most influential realist of his generation.

Mearsheimer asserts that China's rise will not be peaceful and that the US will seek to contain China and prevent it from achieving regional hegemony. Mearsheimer argues that although containing China militarily is possible, economic containment of China is not.

John Mearsheimer's offensive neorealism intends to fix the "status quo bias" of Kenneth Waltz's defensive neorealism. While both neorealist variants argue that states are primarily concerned with maximizing their security, they disagree over the amount of power required in the process.

Structural realism is often characterized as the view that scientific theories tell us only about the form or structure of the unobservable world and not about its nature. This leaves open the question as to whether the natures of things are posited to be unknowable for some reason or eliminated altogether.

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[vmdoon]

One of the few brave intellectuals left. Thank you, Prof. Mearsheimer for continuing to speak up, despite the hostility ou are facing. You represent the America I respect. God bless you.

[L.Baldry]

I LOVE professor Mareshmer. Thanks for wise assessment of these horrific situation.

[Sango]

At the beginning of every disaster movie is a scientist being ignored. That scientist, inn this case a political scientist, was Dr. John Mearsheimer.

[sotosdemetriou]

Wise man ...all the western politicians should LISTEN TO HIM ..😢😢😢

[africanintellectual]

Great powers do not tolerate any and all threats to their national security

[ЛюдмилаЛюдмила-бч]

Listen to the VOICE OF REASON! RESPECT TO THIS COURAGEOUS MAN!

[haifaisrail]

The professor is a real patriot of USA!

[helthuismartin]

He is right.Ánd this was in 2014 and it all game out.

[elizabethb]

Unfortunately have a very incompetent government!

[pnfctg]

wow... spot on analysis that has played out to the letter.

[Valsarno]

I believe it cannot be clearer and more exhaustive. A critical and objective analysis of a situation that is only apparently complex. Thank you, Professor!

[jstasiak]

This video is from 2014. The giveaway is when Mr. Mearsheimer states that “Until February of this year [2014] the Russians and the Americans and the Russians and the Europeans actually had reasonably good relations”(1:52). The Maidan Coup, which infuriated the Russians, occurred in February 2014.

Otherwise you might erroneously think that this video is from earlier this year.

[phils]

Sensible commentary. Good sense is nowhere to be found in gov leadership unfortunately.

[asbeautifulasasunset]

Americans steeped in their own superiority have to be the talkers because incredibly that's a power position for them. They have to be listened to but they don't listen. The late Vine Deloria Jr. wrote a great book about the Indians experience with the white man: We Talk, You Listen They still don't listen.

[smilingrolexxokpeh]

I so much love watching you
Honest man

[barrietasker]

At last someone with some intelligence and who can see rationally the situation. In a world where the arrogant sicopaths that hold power in our world are running as fast as they can to abliteration laughing excitedly all the way.

[ollyr_]

Thanks for the truth from a ukrainian!

[winhtut]

Words of wisdom from the great Professor!

[gdr]

As countries become more and more powerful then finally end up in making irrecoverable miscalculations. That is very natural.

[grantbablitz]

You Sir are the most important voice in the world today!