[zelon88]

Soo... Basically Ukraine isn't allowed to have a relationship with the United States because it would make russia, the jealous ex, jealous? Pardon the analogies, but that sounds like the same argument one would use to explain that women wouldn't get sexually assaulted if they didn't dress so scantily. It's preposterous.

It's not surprising. Both Mearsheimer and Putin both subscribe to the theory of offensive realism, while most Western cultures lean more towards defensive realism.

[simonblack]

This crisis is exactly the Cuban Missile Crisis in reverse. The US got its pants in a twist in 1962, and Russia got its pants in a twist over the last few years for exactly the same reasons.

If it was good enough for the US to send in the armed forces in 1962, it's good enough for Russia to send in the armed forces today.

[lordkrandel]

Except that it wasn't, and it isn't