{"id":431,"date":"2024-07-04T19:42:18","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T19:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/?p=431"},"modified":"2024-07-09T06:37:44","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T06:37:44","slug":"prof-john-mearsheimer-china-in-the-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/?p=431","title":{"rendered":"Prof. John Mearsheimer : China In the Wings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Prof. John Mearsheimer: The idea of putting troops in Finland is nuts because all it’s going to do is provoke the Russians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s going to cause tensions in the region, and<\/p>\n\n\n\n

it’s going to give the Russians greater incentives to<\/p>\n\n\n\n

wreck Ukraine, cause trouble in Europe, cause trouble in transatlantic relations and so forth and so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"📑\"If the president of the United States were to call<\/p>\n\n\n\n

you, I don’t necessarily mean Joe Biden or Donald Trump, whoever the president might be, and ask for your advice on whether America should put troops on and lease basis from Finland, where it is now contemplating doing that on between twelve and 15 bases along the 800 miles common border that Finland has with Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How would you advise the president if that<\/p>\n\n\n\n

question were put to you, Professor Mearsheimer?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s the easiest question you’ve asked me this morning. Okay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Absolutely not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I mean, that would be insane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But you know, they’re doing it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Go ahead, please.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No, I think you’re right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And if you look at what they’re going to do at the NATO summit, right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve been reading about, you know, what we’re going to<\/p>\n\n\n\n

do at the NATO summit to reassure the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What you see is that we’re going to go to greater and greater lengths to make Ukraine a de facto member of NATO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We’ve reached the point where we understand, I think<\/p>\n\n\n\n

quite clearly that we can’t make Ukraine a de<\/p>\n\n\n\n

jure member, a formal member of the alliance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what we’ve decided to do is make it a de facto member.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a prescription for disaster for Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s just crazy that we’re doing this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the idea of putting troops in Finland is nuts<\/p>\n\n\n\n

because all it’s going to do is provoke the Russians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s going to cause tensions in the region, and<\/p>\n\n\n\n

it’s going to give the Russians greater incentives to<\/p>\n\n\n\n

wreck Ukraine, cause trouble in Europe, cause trouble in<\/p>\n\n\n\n

transatlantic relations and so forth and so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I just don’t understand what these people are thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And all at the same time, we’re up to our eyeballs and alligators in the Middle east.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And furthermore, there is, as we were talking about<\/p>\n\n\n\n

at the start of the show, potential for trouble involving the Filipinos and the Chinese, where we might get dragged in, in East Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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