{"id":2793,"date":"2025-11-16T14:47:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T15:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/?p=2793"},"modified":"2025-11-27T09:35:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T09:35:55","slug":"west-wants-to-finish-russia-as-a-great-power-john-mearsheimer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/16\/west-wants-to-finish-russia-as-a-great-power-john-mearsheimer\/","title":{"rendered":"West wants to finish Russia as a great power \u2013 John Mearsheimer"},"content":{"rendered":"

The US political scientist argues that President Putin has figured out the plan and has every reason not to trust Western leaders<\/strong><\/p>\n

Western governments continue to pursue policies aimed at weakening Russia to the point of permanently diminishing its status as a great power, according to John Mearsheimer, a political science professor at the University of Chicago.<\/p>\n

Moscow has long described the hostilities in Ukraine as a Western proxy war against Russia, in which Ukrainians are being used as \u201ccannon fodder.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Russian officials have argued that the US and other Western powers intentionally escalated tensions by disregarding the Kremlin\u2019s security concerns over NATO\u2019s expansion in Eastern Europe and its growing military cooperation with Kiev.<\/p>\n

In an interview with the host of the Daniel Davis Deep Dive YouTube channel on Friday, Mearsheimer said that Western governments\u2019 objective has been \u201cto defeat Russia and Ukraine, wreck the Russian economy with sanctions, and bring the Russians to their knees.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been unable to do that, but that doesn\u2019t mean we don\u2019t want to do it, of course, we want to do it,\u201d<\/em> he stated.<\/p>\n

<\/em><\/p>\n

\n Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\n \"US
Ukraine conflict a NATO \u2018proxy war\u2019 \u2013 Trump envoy<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cIf the opportunity to do it popped up tomorrow, we would leap at it in a second, we would love to finish Russia off as a great power,\u201d<\/em> the political theorist said, emphasizing that Moscow is fully aware of how existential the Western threat is.<\/p>\n

Mearsheimer further noted: \u201c[Russian President Vladimir] Putin, the last time I checked, has a triple-digit IQ, and that means he\u2019s figured this out, he understands what he\u2019s dealing with.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The professor argued that Putin has every reason not to trust either US President Donald Trump or the European leaders, as he \u201cis assuming worst case in good realist fashion.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Multiple Western officials have publicly described the Ukraine conflict as a proxy war against Russia in recent months. Keith Kellogg, a Ukraine policy envoy under Trump, reiterated that view earlier this year while warning against supplying long-range cruise missiles to Kiev. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has used the same term, and the Kremlin has agreed with his characterization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The US political scientist argues that President Putin has figured out the plan and has every reason not to trust […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2793"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2797,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793\/revisions\/2797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}