![]() It’s questionable whether Mr Putin was right to say NATO posed a threat to Russia’s sphere of influence. ![]() The Russian leadership was deeply opposed to the prospect of NATO extending its reach so close to the heartland of Russia. Bush, along with the other NATO member states, ostensibly committed the alliance to the future membership of Ukraine and Georgia. But Professor Mearsheimer’s central argument is that the crisis began at NATO’s Bucharest summit in April 2008, when President George W. Professor Mearsheimer does not let Vladimir Putin off the hook entirely: “There is no question that Vladimir Putin started the crisis and is responsible for how it is being waged,” he writes. Yet he argued in an article for The Economist’s By Invitation section on March 19th that “the West, and especially America, is principally responsible for the crisis which began in February 2014.” WHY IS IT that John Mearsheimer, a distinguished American exponent of international relations, has reached such an apparently perverse conclusion about Russia’s “special military operation” in Ukraine? It is a “special military operation” indeed-one whose initiation and conduct have been condemned as violating the most fundamental rules and norms. ![]()
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