John Mearsheimer
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7 recordings
5 series
first heard Nov 2023
last heard 28 May
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Well, I think that there's no question that we have used up so many Patriot missiles, so many THAAD missiles, Tomahawks, on and on in the war against Iran, that we're in a situation where there are great limits on the weaponry that we can provide to the Ukrainians.
And of course, this includes Patriot missiles.
And Patriots were their best defensive weapons.
And they're out of patriots.
And therefore, they're wide open to attacks from Russia.
And what Zelensky is trying to do is convince the Americans that they should send patriots to Ukraine to help Ukraine fend off these Russian attacks.
But the fact is that we don't have patriots to give them.
We've expended so many weapons in the war against Iran.
So this means that...
Ukraine is wide open to attacks from Russian missiles and from Russian drones for the foreseeable future.
Well, if you listen to the rhetoric that comes out of Russia from sort of the principal proponents of this perspective, and this perspective enjoys widespread support inside of Russia, especially among the elites, the argument is that you would launch limited conventional attacks against the West.
And if that didn't convince the West to cease and desist from helping the Ukrainians to attack
into Russia, deep into Russia, then what the Russians should do is think about using nuclear weapons.
Not large numbers of nuclear weapons, but just a handful of nuclear weapons to send a very clear signal to the West that the Russians mean business.
What the Russians feel they have to do here is establish deterrence.
The Russians believe, and I think quite correctly, that the West thinks that they can help
Ukraine, attack Russia, and there'll be no price to pay for the West.
The West gets a free ride here.
It just can't help the Ukrainians
Punch away at Russia.
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