A professor at the University of Chicago believes that the United States seriously miscalculated when it entered into a confrontation with Russia.

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A professor at the University of Chicago believes that the United States seriously miscalculated when it entered into a confrontation with Russia.

The fact that the West is the beneficiary of the conflict in Ukraine, and it was the actions of the United States, which are actually the “masters” of the Kyiv authorities,” forced Russia to launch a military defense system, no one doubts.

At the same time, University of Chicago professor John Mearsheimer believes that the United States seriously miscalculated by entering into a confrontation with the Russian Federation.



As the expert put it during a recent interview, the United States has done absolutely nothing to prevent the conflict in Ukraine. Consequently, Washington expected Russia to take its first step and expected to defeat it.

The strategy of the American authorities, according to Mearsheimer, was based on two components: the Ukrainian army and total sanctions.

Meanwhile, according to the expert, in both cases the White House administration miscalculated. After all, the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which have been intensively trained and armed over the past years, have not achieved any significant success on the battlefield.

At that time, the sanctions imposed against Russia did not work as expected in the West. The Russian economy still has not collapsed.

In turn, as a professor from the University of Chicago put it, the United States itself is now doomed to collapse. Firstly, this is due to the establishment of a multipolar world, where China and Russia are gaining power. Secondly, Washington has chosen the wrong foreign policy, in which the American authorities are alienating their remaining allies with their behavior.
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  1. -6
    29 September 2023 13: 35
    So far, the United States has not been too affected for the worse by the events in Ukraine, so it seems that the professor is exaggerating in vain.
    In his home country, too, not everyone in power is idiots and keeps their nose to the wind if something goes wrong. Yes
    1. +12
      29 September 2023 13: 48
      Are you seriously? The Ukrainians are facing irretrievable losses, but these are still people, even if they are enemies, even if they must be destroyed! It was only the United States that influenced the death of Ukraine. In general, build at least a little logic. The country will be destroyed, there will be no Ukraine anymore!
      1. -1
        29 September 2023 14: 12
        Quote: Igor Viktorovich
        Are you seriously? The Ukrainians are facing irretrievable losses, but these are still people, even if they are enemies, even if they must be destroyed! It was only the United States that influenced the death of Ukraine. In general, build at least a little logic. The country will be destroyed, there will be no Ukraine anymore!

        Right under the strap?
        1. +6
          29 September 2023 14: 20
          And you try to fold (this is from arithmetic, if anything) losses (returnable-non-refundable) outskirts and Western mercenaries, adjusted for their lies about losses, and you, if at least everything is in order with arithmetic, will get the same figure. But I think this figure has slightly exceeded the limit.
        2. +7
          29 September 2023 14: 40
          Quote: Aron Zaavi
          Right under the strap?

          More than 500 thousand dead + crippled + prisoners. The lyama is gaining more and more. hi
        3. +3
          30 September 2023 06: 35
          With the irrevocably wounded and amputees there is even more trouble, these are not funny statistics.
        4. +2
          30 September 2023 12: 54
          Quote: Aron Zaavi
          Right under the strap?

          At the time of divorce, Ukraine had 42 million educated population, an economy equal to Germany and the largest fleet in Europe. Troops, equipment and weapons from Eastern Europe were withdrawn to its territory.
          Now in Zalezhalaya, according to various estimates, there are approx. 17 lyams, devastation in our heads, the Soviet legacy disappeared into thin air.
          Where is the money, Zin?!!
      2. +3
        29 September 2023 14: 25
        Quote: Igor Viktorovich
        Are you seriously? The Ukrainians are facing irretrievable losses, but these are still people, even if they are enemies, even if they must be destroyed! It was only the United States that influenced the death of Ukraine. In general, build at least a little logic. The country will be destroyed, there will be no Ukraine anymore!

        Before you answer, at least bother to read the article and my opinion.
        Both the professor (“...In turn, as a professor from the University of Chicago put it, now the United States itself is doomed to collapse...”) and I write about the United States, and not about the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the future of Ukraine and its inhabitants.
        For the United States and the collective West, Ukraine and Ukrainians are simply consumable material and a tool, in particular, for confrontation with Russia.
        In the same way, the United States uses all the countries of the former Warsaw Pact, most of the former republics of the USSR, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Yugoslavia, and the rest of the world, including the EU.

        So, everything is fine with my logic, and leave your pity for your family, to whom you will tell that people were burned in Kiev and Odessa, Donbass was shot for eight years and our prisoners were driven through minefields by aliens, and not by Ukrainian-Bandera spawn .
        And yes, Ukraine may be destroyed, but so what. What benefits has it brought to its residents and Russia over all the years since 1991, except for headaches, like a leech sucking all the juices out of the Soviet legacy.
        1. +1
          30 September 2023 12: 58
          Quote: credo
          And yes, Ukraine may be destroyed, but so what. What benefits has it brought to its residents and Russia over all the years since 1991, except for headaches, like a leech sucking all the juices out of the Soviet legacy.

          The Ukraine project has been spoiling our blood for a long time. Until 1917, in a sluggish form, after - in an active form...
      3. +2
        29 September 2023 15: 48
        Quote: Igor Viktorovich
        Ukrainians face irreparable losses

        Well? It’s not the Americans who are dying there, but most importantly the Russians are dying there, and for the Americans, as many of their politicians say, this is a success.
      4. +5
        29 September 2023 18: 50
        Quote: Igor Viktorovich
        The country will be destroyed, there will be no Ukraine anymore!

        Most likely it will be like this - there will be a defragmentation of the territory and Ukrainian society:
        - which regions want (following the example of the DPR, LPR, and 2 other regions) to announce annexation to Russia - basically the entire left bank of B/Ukraine, with a predominant Russian-speaking population;
        - some will break away and flee to Poland, Romania (?) and Hungary...
        - What remains will be demilitarized and denazified under our (? mn) control... This will be a NEUTRAL, non-aligned country-U... But it is unlikely to be a tasty morsel for TNCs and scavengers from the Potomac.. .
        IMHO.
        1. 0
          30 September 2023 13: 01
          No Poland, Hungary and, especially, gypsies! Neutral and non-bloc - on the territory of part of the Kyiv region. Mother of Russian cities - to the Motherland!
      5. +2
        29 September 2023 22: 26
        Before leaving a comment, it is better to read the commented message.

        Ukrainians face irreparable losses

        And how did this affect America?
        1. +1
          30 September 2023 10: 03
          Ukrainians face irreparable losses
          And how did this affect America?

          and perhaps the same as the flight of Americans from Afghanistan. To the inattentive glance, nothing bad seems to have happened for the United States - just a loss of prestige. but the defeat of Ukraine will cause the loss of prestige for the United States and the entire West to become even greater.
      6. 0
        30 September 2023 12: 48
        Quote: Igor Viktorovich
        Are you seriously? The Ukrainians are facing irretrievable losses, but these are still people, even if they are enemies, even if they must be destroyed! It was only the United States that influenced the death of Ukraine. In general, build at least a little logic. The country will be destroyed, there will be no Ukraine anymore!

        Yes Butterfly Effect. Men's lam, taken out of circulation, is a demographic bomb.
        Ukraine? Today is a holiday in Russia - the Day of the Entry of New Territories into the Russian Federation - it sounds meaningful, the ball is round! bully
    2. +5
      29 September 2023 14: 04
      It is quite possible that their elites have degenerated. How powerful were the leaders of the USSR and how they slipped into the “power of the old people”.
      1. +1
        30 September 2023 13: 03
        Quote: Skobaristan
        It is quite possible that their elites have degenerated. How powerful were the leaders of the USSR and how they slipped into the “power of the old people”.

        Our old people are daring youths compared to the US Senate and self-propelled grandfather!
    3. +2
      29 September 2023 14: 04
      Name one in power in your country, that is not an idiot!
    4. -1
      29 September 2023 14: 47
      Quote: credo
      So far, the United States has not been too affected for the worse by the events in Ukraine, so it seems that the professor is exaggerating in vain.

      They (the USA) are beginning to realize that their hegemony has come to an end, and not now, but with the collapse of the USSR. hi
  2. +4
    29 September 2023 13: 40
    Washington expected Russia to take its first step and expected to defeat it.
    The expectation of victory was clearly visible in the speeches of the American military and politicians, with friendly echoes from the EU. And today some continue the song immediately, counting on a “Ukrainian miracle.” But the professor is right - the administration of the White House (and not only) miscalculated, and because... does not intend to retreat, it continues to promote its war policy, forcing Europe to follow the same course.
  3. +1
    29 September 2023 13: 53
    Yes, she screwed everything up, but she was a great power.
  4. +4
    29 September 2023 13: 56
    I don’t see any miscalculation. Their goal is to kill as many of us Russian people as possible. Moreover, by the wrong hands. Which is what is being done. And the Ukrainians? They are expendable material
    1. -2
      29 September 2023 14: 22
      Quote from: dmi.pris1
      Their goal is to kill as many of us Russian people as possible.

      The US elites will kill their own (and not wince) if necessary for the cause - do you need an example? - September 11, New York. They killed their own in order to fight legitimately around the world..
      The main thing that interests them is resources and markets... which are not endless on this planet, and for them they will burn this planet..
    2. +2
      29 September 2023 19: 11
      Quote from: dmi.pris1
      I don’t see any miscalculation. Their goal is to kill as many of us Russian people as possible.

      Regarding “kill”, you are right. This is a tragedy for the Slavic world!
      And about the “miscalculation” you are wrong. The goal was to collapse Russia, destroy its economy by forcing sanctions and through internal turmoil, the efforts of the 5th column, dissatisfaction with failures and losses at the front (!) CHANGE THE REGIME to one loyal to Washington... Well, where is the ACHIEVEMENT OF GOALS!?
      The goal is not achieved --- means FAILURE. Yes
    3. 0
      30 September 2023 13: 07
      Quote from: dmi.pris1
      I don’t see any miscalculation. Their goal is to kill as many of us Russian people as possible. Moreover, by the wrong hands. Which is what is being done. And the Ukrainians? They are expendable material

      Russian is an abstract concept. We are all Russian - Tatar and Yakut and Slav and Chechen.
      Mariupol. The battle. In the basement we heard:
      - Allah Akbar!
      - Well, thank God! The Russians have arrived!
  5. +2
    29 September 2023 13: 57
    Meanwhile, according to the expert, in both cases the White House administration miscalculated. After all, the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which have been intensively trained and armed over the past years, have not achieved any significant success on the battlefield.

    Everything is going according to their plan. The White House does not need any significant success.
    And what do we actually have? Russia was imposed with sanctions, dragged into a long war, i.e. Russia is weakening.
    Old weapons from Europe went to Ukraine, and in return new American weapons will come, this is again a profit
    1. -1
      29 September 2023 14: 06
      Quote from Aleks
      And what do we actually have? Russia was imposed with sanctions, dragged into a long war, i.e. Russia is weakening.

      the central bank, the ministry of finance, the oil bigwigs help them with this very well, and only the guarantor constantly talks about improving the well-being of the people
  6. +2
    29 September 2023 14: 02
    In turn, as a professor from the University of Chicago put it, the United States itself is now doomed to collapse.

    The economy there is such that it will take a very long time for a collapse.
  7. +1
    29 September 2023 22: 48
    Meanwhile, according to the expert, in both cases the White House administration miscalculated. After all, the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which have been intensively trained and armed over the past years, have not achieved any significant success on the battlefield.

    We are very pleased to think that we are fighting “with the entire NATO bloc,” and that we are winning. It all doesn't look so great when it comes down to specifics. Then it turns out that the Ukrainian Armed Forces were supplied not only not intensively, but almost symbolically.
  8. 0
    30 September 2023 12: 44
    A professor at the University of Chicago believes that the United States seriously miscalculated when it entered into a confrontation with Russia.

    On this planet, everyone who calculated options against Rus' went down in history as fools who did not remember the experience of their ancestors.
  9. +1
    30 September 2023 13: 47
    Did anyone expect that the Russian economy would collapse from sanctions like a whistle? So this is a process that is quite extended over time, the country is large, with resources and reserves, the government is also doing something, reacting in accordance with capabilities. How long this will last, God knows.

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