This was an interesting counter-point to John Mearsheimer's claims about the war in Ukraine.
Mearsheimer has made the same claims repeatedly for years now. I can't say I've seen evidence of a CIA coup, but then, I wouldn't necessarily expect to.
Mearsheimer has not held back in criticizing into Biden and Harris, calling them warmongers, and has repeatedly lambasted US foreign policy.
I've never heard Mearsheimer criticize Putin, however.
Maybe I've missed it.
On the other hand, I've heard Mearsheimer claim that Putin is a savvy politician and smart operator, that Putin is trying to avoid civilian casualties in Ukraine, that he did everything he could to avoid the war, that Putin is deliberately avoiding frontal 'meat' assaults to minimize Russian casualties, that the US should ally with Russia against China, and so on.
Even though the opening act of the invasion was a fiasco, featuring a thoroughly thwarted airborne assault and a massive armoured convoy that literally ran out of gas, Mearsheimer hasn't, as far as I have seen, criticized any of this.
He's likely right that Ukraine's cause is doomed in light of the recent US elections, and I suspect he's also right that (given the disparity in artillery between Russia and Ukraine) Ukraine is suffering much higher casualties than is generally known, but his seemingly selective silence is a little... odd.
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