{"id":205989,"date":"2022-02-28T12:00:55","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=205989"},"modified":"2022-02-27T07:28:25","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T07:28:25","slug":"the-situation-in-russia-and-ukraine-why-is-ukraine-the-wests-fault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/02\/the-situation-in-russia-and-ukraine-why-is-ukraine-the-wests-fault\/","title":{"rendered":"The Situation in Russia and Ukraine &#8211; Why Is Ukraine the West&#8217;s Fault?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>21 <\/strong><strong>Feb <\/strong><strong>2022<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>This interview was recorded on 15 Feb, before Russia invaded Ukraine. Most important part may be 3:00\u201324:45.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1982. He graduated from West Point in 1970 and then served five years as an officer in the U.S. Air Force. He has published six immensely influential books on international relations theory. In 2020, he won the James Madison Award, which is given once every three years by the American Political Science Association to \u201can American political scientist who has made a distinguished scholarly contribution to political science.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Nbj1AR_aAcE<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">******************<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>25 Sep 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">UnCommon Core: The Causes and Consequences of the Ukraine Crisis<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">John J. Mearsheimer assesses the causes of the present Ukraine crisis, the best way to end it, and its consequences for all of the main actors. A key assumption is that in order to come up with the optimum plan for ending the crisis, it is essential to know what caused the crisis. Regarding the all-important question of causes, the key issue is whether Russia or the West bears primary responsibility.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John J. Mearsheimer is Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago since 1982. He graduated from West Point in 1970 and then served five years as an officer in the U.S. Air Force. In 2020 he won the James Madison Award from the American Political Science Association to \u201can American political scientist who has made a distinguished scholarly contribution to political science.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[431],"tags":[2009,2197,1035,1268,91,818,253,278,254,961,70,92,481],"class_list":["post-205989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcend-videos","tag-anti-war","tag-biden","tag-eastern-europe","tag-european-union","tag-nato","tag-proxy-war","tag-putin","tag-russia","tag-security","tag-ukraine","tag-usa","tag-violent-conflict","tag-warfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}