John J. Mearsheimer

Yes.

So what we have to do is we have to focus the mind.

And there's no better way to focus the mind than to pop off a couple nuclear weapons in Europe.

That will focus their mind.

They will get the message.

They will understand that we are then out on the slippery slope to oblivion, and they will back off.

But that's the only way you can get them to back off.

Yes.

The thing you want to remember, and I think it's very hard for Americans in general to understand this, is that Russia views what's happening in Ukraine as an existential threat.

Yes.

Ukraine is their backyard.

Think back to the Cuban Missile Crisis, the idea of the Soviet Union placing nuclear warheads

on missiles inside of Cuba was categorically unacceptable to the United States.

Just unacceptable.

It was viewed as a threat to our survival.

It was a mortal threat.

Whether that was right or not is another issue, but that was the view.

The Russians have made it clear since 2008, when we said that NATO would expand to the point where it included Ukraine, that this was an existential threat.

It would not be allowed to happen.

The war broke out in February 2022.