Mereja.Forum

Why John Mearsheimer Blames the U.S. for the Crisis in Ukraine



For years, the political scientist has claimed that Putin’s aggression toward Ukraine is caused by Western intervention.

When you’re a country like Ukraine and you live next door to a great power like Russia, you have to pay careful attention to what the Russians think, because if you take a stick and you poke them in the eye, they’re going to retaliate. States in the Western hemisphere understand this full well with regard to the United States.

The Monroe Doctrine, essentially.

Of course. There’s no country in the Western hemisphere that we will allow to invite a distant, great power to bring military forces into that country.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/ ... in-ukraine

-----------------------------------------------------------

The Monroe Doctrine was a United States foreign policy position that opposed European colonialism in the Western Hemisphere. It held that any intervention in the political affairs of the Americas by foreign powers was a potentially hostile act against the U.S.

Western Hemisphere
The following countries are in the Western Hemisphere region:

Canada
Mexico
Guatemala
Belize
El Salvador
Honduras
Nicaragua
Costa Rica
Panama
Jamaica
Cuba
The Bahamas
Haiti
Dominican Republic
Antigua and Barbuda
Dominica
Saint Lucia



Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Barbados
Grenada
Trinidad and Tobago
Colombia
Venezuela
Guyana
Suriname
Ecuador

Peru
Brazil
Bolivia
Paraguay
Chile
Argentina
Uruguay