The people who love Mearsheimer are the pro-Russian commentators who tried to ridicule people for being concerned about Russia’s full scale invasion and are now pretending to be experts on the war that they insisted would never happen.

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He said Russia wouldn’t launch its full scale invasion. He has said every month for the past four years sinde then that Ukraine is about to surrender. And he now insists there is no evidence of Russia’s imperial ambitions.

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The difference is that the Baltics have consistently taken that threat seriously, while Mearsheimer has spent years justifying Russian aggression and taking the pro-Russian position that keeps proving to be wrong.

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His defenders point out that he warned back in 1993 that Russia would try to recapture Ukraine, as if that was somehow against the established view at the time. Many people, especially here in the Baltics, have spent decades warning that Russia is an unreformed imperial power.

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Mearsheimer couldn't even predict what would happen when he tried to buy a coffee in Moscow with his US credit card.

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