• 小莱卡@lemmygrad.ml
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    5 months ago

    It doesn’t hurt to clarify. Not everyone is at the same stage of development and might be misslead because Mearsheimer “realist” views are more eloquent than your average lib.

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      5 months ago

      Of course. It’s good to clarify the ideological orientation of a piece of geopolitical analysis so that we know how to contextualize it and understand where its strengths and weaknesses lie based on the biases of the source. The article you linked is very good and all the points it makes are absolutely correct.

      I think most of us here would agree that outside of his analysis of the Ukraine conflict (which for someone with his popularity and reach in western geopolitical circles is decent, though woefully incomplete - he never talks about the Nazi problem in Ukraine and the shelling of the Donbass for instance!) Mearsheimer is not that impressive of an analyst.