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Faulty Powers: Who Started the Ukraine Crisis?
Responding to Mearsheimer's controversial essay blaming the West for the Ukraine crisis, McFaul and Sestanovich put the blame back on Putin and his ideological extremism, denying that NATO expansion provoked him. Mearsheimer replies.
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©2014 Foreign Affairs (P)2014 Audible, Inc.
RUNNING TIME ⇒. 47mins.
©2014 Foreign Affairs (P)2014 Audible, Inc.
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First published November 19, 2014
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April 3, 2022
Don't take my starring too seriously. This audiobook compiles two published responses to John J. Mearsheimer's article in the previous issue of Foreign Affairs. (see my review of Mearsheimer's brilliant and essential reading, "Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West’s Fault.")
There is no reason to "read" this audiobook unless you have heard or read the original Mearsheimer article.
Mearsheimer's response to the letters is also included. So I actually give one star to each of the two letters and five stars to Mearsheimer's response.
The first letter is by self-described Led Zeppelin fan and MSNBidioC all-things-Russia pundit, the failed Obama Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul, who is a teacher at Stanford's fascist Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace (sic). The other letter is by a member of the imperialist Council on Foreign Relations, Stephen Sestanovich.
They both represent the failed "liberal" foreign policy called-out by Mearsheimer of NATO and EU expansion to the border of Russia and supporting fascist politicians under the guise of supporting expansion of democracy in those nations.
It's interesting that both McFaul and Sestanovich hock the propaganda that in 2014 the president of Ukraine was not ousted in a coup, but a unanimous vote of Ukraine's parliament. This shows McFaul to be a sleazy disinformation pundit because as Mearshiemer points out, the parliament had been violently invaded that morning (think Jan 6 as if it had succeeded in installing Trump). A sudden vote of parliament to oust the president is a violation of Ukraine's Constitution. So that makes McFaul a fascist who talks pro-democracy. He is a naked American Exceptionalist Imperialist.
So if you read Mearshiemer's essay, by all means continue by checking out these letters and their response. You will understand why all we are getting about Russia and Ukraine right now from all politicians and all mass media is pro-NATO lies.
And because of where Clinton/Albright/GW Bush/Obama/McFaul did, Ukraine is being destroyed. All you have to do to see how delusional the Albright vision was and is is to remember how the US responded to the USSR sending missiles to Cuba. "We" (sic) were threatening nuclear war and the end of civilization over that, but somehow Putin wanting NATO out of Ukraine is "insane" and shows Putin to be a megalomaniac.
Mearsheimer explains that it is a trivialization of the Russian people for the US voter massagers to insist that Putin is the only person fearful of NATO in Ukraine. So that's one way to pick out the liars or the MSNBC Idiocracy of Historical Dumbness (especially from McFaul!): they say the invasion of Ukraine is 1) an unprovoked war 2) fr0m a madman's sole personal political vision autonomous of the views of the Russian people, and 3) this is a vision that is expansionist and a part of Putin's imperial vision.
It's also critically important for everybody to realize that the Russian government and military establishment have always seen and experienced sanctions as economic warfare designed to overthrow the Russian government. Which is 100% true. So this Russian's see this as a war Clinton/Bush/Obama started, not something that began when Russia crossed the borders of Ukraine in 2022.
So where on MSNBidioC is McFaul's nemesis and accuser when we need his wise, life and nation-saving counsel at this horrific moment?
There is no reason to "read" this audiobook unless you have heard or read the original Mearsheimer article.
Mearsheimer's response to the letters is also included. So I actually give one star to each of the two letters and five stars to Mearsheimer's response.
The first letter is by self-described Led Zeppelin fan and MSNBidioC all-things-Russia pundit, the failed Obama Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul, who is a teacher at Stanford's fascist Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace (sic). The other letter is by a member of the imperialist Council on Foreign Relations, Stephen Sestanovich.
They both represent the failed "liberal" foreign policy called-out by Mearsheimer of NATO and EU expansion to the border of Russia and supporting fascist politicians under the guise of supporting expansion of democracy in those nations.
It's interesting that both McFaul and Sestanovich hock the propaganda that in 2014 the president of Ukraine was not ousted in a coup, but a unanimous vote of Ukraine's parliament. This shows McFaul to be a sleazy disinformation pundit because as Mearshiemer points out, the parliament had been violently invaded that morning (think Jan 6 as if it had succeeded in installing Trump). A sudden vote of parliament to oust the president is a violation of Ukraine's Constitution. So that makes McFaul a fascist who talks pro-democracy. He is a naked American Exceptionalist Imperialist.
So if you read Mearshiemer's essay, by all means continue by checking out these letters and their response. You will understand why all we are getting about Russia and Ukraine right now from all politicians and all mass media is pro-NATO lies.
And because of where Clinton/Albright/GW Bush/Obama/McFaul did, Ukraine is being destroyed. All you have to do to see how delusional the Albright vision was and is is to remember how the US responded to the USSR sending missiles to Cuba. "We" (sic) were threatening nuclear war and the end of civilization over that, but somehow Putin wanting NATO out of Ukraine is "insane" and shows Putin to be a megalomaniac.
Mearsheimer explains that it is a trivialization of the Russian people for the US voter massagers to insist that Putin is the only person fearful of NATO in Ukraine. So that's one way to pick out the liars or the MSNBC Idiocracy of Historical Dumbness (especially from McFaul!): they say the invasion of Ukraine is 1) an unprovoked war 2) fr0m a madman's sole personal political vision autonomous of the views of the Russian people, and 3) this is a vision that is expansionist and a part of Putin's imperial vision.
It's also critically important for everybody to realize that the Russian government and military establishment have always seen and experienced sanctions as economic warfare designed to overthrow the Russian government. Which is 100% true. So this Russian's see this as a war Clinton/Bush/Obama started, not something that began when Russia crossed the borders of Ukraine in 2022.
So where on MSNBidioC is McFaul's nemesis and accuser when we need his wise, life and nation-saving counsel at this horrific moment?
July 24, 2024
This is a three article collage on one audiobook. I liked the topic and it explains both points of western view on a current conflict.
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