{"id":18170,"date":"2022-06-30T07:37:50","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T05:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=18170"},"modified":"2022-06-30T07:37:50","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T05:37:50","slug":"zum-gluck-gibt-es-amerika-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=18170","title":{"rendered":"Zum Gl\u00fcck gibt es Amerika II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/feature\/causes-and-consequences-ukraine-crisis-203182\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John J. Mearsheimer speech at the European University Institute, 16.06.2022<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I will make two main arguments today.<\/p>\n<p>First, the United States is principally responsible for causing the Ukraine crisis. This is not to deny that Putin started the war and that he is responsible for Russia\u2019s conduct of the war. Nor is it to deny that America\u2019s allies bear some responsibility, but they largely follow Washington\u2019s lead on Ukraine. My central claim is that the United States has pushed forward policies toward Ukraine that Putin and other Russian leaders see as an existential threat, a point they have made repeatedly for many years. Specifically, I am talking about America\u2019s obsession with bringing Ukraine into NATO and making it a Western bulwark on Russia\u2019s border. The Biden administration was unwilling to eliminate that threat through diplomacy and indeed in 2021 recommitted the United States to bringing Ukraine into NATO. Putin responded by invading Ukraine on <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">February 24<sup>th<\/sup><\/span>\u00a0of this year.<\/p>\n<p>Second, the Biden administration has reacted to the outbreak of war by doubling down against Russia. Washington and its Western allies are committed to decisively defeating Russia in Ukraine and employing comprehensive sanctions to greatly weaken Russian power. The United States is not seriously interested in finding a diplomatic solution to the war, which means the war is likely to drag on for months if not years. In the process, Ukraine, which has already suffered grievously, is going to experience even greater harm. In essence, the United States is helping lead Ukraine down the primrose path.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John J. Mearsheimer speech at the European University Institute, 16.06.2022: I will make two main arguments today. First, the United States is principally responsible for causing the Ukraine crisis. This is not to deny that Putin started the war and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=18170\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}