Sunday, February 26, 2023

Mearsheimer on the War

Wauck finds another interview with John Mearsheimer of U of Chicago.  Remember that Mearsheimer has been calling this war a mistake for quite some time.  Here he's very clear:  Bai-Den and the NeoConMorons have completely screwed up foreign policy.

...I think we have one country on the planet that's a serious threat to us, and that's China. It's a peer competitor, and the United States should be focusing laser-like on dealing with China. Now, we live in a multi-polar world. There are three Great Powers on the planet: The United States, Russia, and China. If you're in a world where there are three Great Powers, and you're the United States and China is your principal rival, the question is: How do you think about the Russians? What you want is, you want the Russians to be on your side of the ledger. You want the Russians as allies. The Russians are no threat to conquer Europe. The Russians are a weak Great Power. Of those three Great Powers the Russians are the weakest. You want the Russians on your side, and you certainly don't want to be pinned down in a war in Eastern Europe which is preventing you from pivoting fully to East Asia. We have created a situation that works to China's advantage. China, in my opinion, has a deep seated interest in keeping this war going for as long as possible, because it pins the Americans down. The Americans, as you know, have limited bandwidth--any Great Power has limited bandwidth--so we don't have much time to spend thinking about what to do in East Asia with regard to the China threat because we spend most of our time thinking about what to do in Eastern Europe or in Ukraine. This is manna from heaven for the Chinese! So this is a remarkably foolish policy from a geostrategic point of view for the United States....

Now you know why Obama remarked that Biden can f**k up anything at all.

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