John J. Mearsheimer

And the Ukrainians will therefore go to great lengths to do everything they can to work with the Europeans and hopefully from their point of view with the United States to solidify their position, to get armaments to protect themselves, which you can just marry to the point you were making.

romanians the hungarians the poles i mean they're all completely afraid of the russians and i get it take this a step further what about nuclear weapons right as we were saying before this conflict has done enormous damage to nato and the american military footprint in europe is shrinking

And one could argue that we're going to have remarkably few troops in Europe in the foreseeable future.

Yes.

Okay?

Who knows for sure how that will play out.

But the importance of pivoting to Asia, the problems that we have in the Middle East, Europe is really number three on the list.

And getting out of there will be a high priority.

Or getting large numbers of troops out of there will be a high priority, shifting the burden to the Europeans.

But the problem is the Germans don't have nuclear weapons.

The Poles don't have nuclear weapons.

And if you believe the Russians are 10 feet tall, and of course the Poles, you know, it's in their mother's milk to believe that the Russians are 10 feet tall.

And they're excitable.

Yes.

And the incentives for Poland to get nuclear weapons are very great.

Oh, for sure.

And the Germans, right?

Yeah.

They're gonna have an incentive to get nuclear weapons, right?

And then the question you have to ask yourself is if you're the Russians and you're watching the Germans, remember, these are the Germans, World War I, World War II.