[coldtea]

Well, Chomsky could be dismissed as a "partisan" (activist, etc.).

But Mearsheimer and other such experts are anything but. They just belong to the realist school, as in "no BS ideological sugarcoating international relations, saying like it is".

Kissinger, for one, has written similar things.

Putin might still have gotten it wrong (eg. miscalculating the success, etc), and he's war could fuck not just Ukraine, but also Russia considerably, but that's different to a "crazy unprovoked and without long term national interests in mind war".

[readonthegoapp]

Curious who Chomsky is partisan for.