Comment by fasbiner
1 year ago
Democrat-leaning foreign policy realists like George Kennan and John Mearsheimer and even liberal economists like Jeff Sachs warned about the likely outcome of these policies 30+ years ago.
These ideas were free for anyone of any party to pick up, but it was easier to ignore the cracks in the liberal internationalist fantasies. So, expect to continue to make incorrect predictions and to face further electoral defeats.
The very impulse to try hide this comment in anger instead of reply rationally is part of why Trump won, and will continue to win no matter how foolish he acts.
Mearsheimer is an idiot. From his talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qciVozNtCDM
his 'realism' is based on...
"...Putin rarely lies to foreign audiences”
Which is just plain not true.
https://euideas.eui.eu/2022/07/11/john-mearsheimers-lecture-...
His point was that Putin generally lies instrumentally to foreigners and pathologically domestically, whereas the west lies pathologically in both areas:
https://web.archive.org/web/20230320140205/https://www.bbc.c...
Here you can see a link from the BBC where Putin admits that of course he was lying about the little green men. Because the lie no longer serves a purpose, it is thrown out. He is a gruesome thug, but he lives on planet earth.
Whereas respectable western foreign policy figures and politicians are still to this day lying about the 75+ coups against democratic governments orchestrated by just the US in the last 120 years
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/28/trump-...
Or are wikipedia and the BBC well known kremlin propaganda outlets?
Yeah no. Mearsheimer is an idiot. He bases his premise on his belief that Putin doesn't lie. Even you and Putin admin Putin himself admit Putin is a liar.
Not sure what that has to do with your follow on. I don't base if Putin lies on if America lies, I base it on if Putin lies.
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