John J. Mearsheimer: The Ukraine Crisis is the West's fault
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This is talk from 2015, but it is a very good one.
It is widely reported that when the USSR withdrew from Eastern Europe, the Americans and NATO promised them that NATO would not be moving east. Instead, it did move east, taking advantage of temporary Russian weakness. It is now on Russia's doorsteps - including not just Warsaw Pact members, but some member states of the USSR itself.
The fact of the matter is that Georgia and Ukraine have absolutely no business becoming members of NATO. Are the Americans going to risk nuclear war over the borders of Georgia, when they don't give a damn about their own borders?
If NATO is correct to move into Ukraine, and the Russians are the alleged belligerents for making a point of that, will Americans then concede that Khrushchev was correct to move nuclear missiles into Cuba?
Yes he was correct to move missiles into Cuba, given the situation.
Imagine Russians becoming buddies with Mexico or Canada. Maybe wanting to put a few defensive missile installations there. Mass some troops. You know. FOR STABILITY.
In the 20s, Mexico became the first nation in the Americas to recognize the USSR. The Soviet Union named the first female ambassador ever (Aleksandra Kollontai) and her first assigned post was to Mexico. Not to mention Trotsky fled to Mexico, who offered him asylum, and lived with 2 Mexican communist artists (where he cucked the husband) after he fell out with Stalin and was killed by a Spanish exile who was part of the NKVD and sent there to kill him while posing as the wife's secretary's boyfriend. So that idea isn't THAT far fetched.