Comment by _DeadFred_
1 year ago
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.
I think a neutral observer would find you so unpersuasive and so illogical that they would naturally take the opposite of whatever views you hold, just for fear of being associated with such tautological and childish rhetoric.