John Mearsheimer

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2,303 appearances 7 recordings 5 series first heard Nov 2023 last heard 28 May

John Mearsheimer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Grand Planned East.

I forget the exact name of it, which made it clear that they were going to murder many tens of millions of people.

And by the way, I believe that—

they would have murdered all the Poles and all the Roma.

I mean, my view is that the Jews were number one on the genocidal hit list.

The Roma or the gypsies were number two, and the Poles were number three.

And of course, I just explained to you how many POWs they had killed.

So they would have ended up murdering huge numbers of Soviet citizens as well.

But people quickly figured out that this was happening.

Mm-hmm.

That's my point to you.

And that gave them, needless to say, very powerful incentives to fight hard against the Germans and to make sure that they did not win.

Well, clearly, the conventional wisdom is that Putin is principally responsible.

Putin is an imperialist.

He's an expansionist.

That's the conventional thinking.

Yeah, yeah.

And the idea is that he is bent on creating a greater Russia.

And even more so, he's interested in dominating Eastern Europe, if not all of Europe, and

And that Ukraine was the first stop on the train line.

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