John Mearsheimer: belief

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…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 that Ukraine was the first stop on the train line. And what he wanted to do was to conquer all of Ukraine, incorporate it into a greater Russia, and then he would move on and conquer other countries. This is the conventional wisdom. My view is there is no evidence, let me emphasize, zero evidence, to support that argument. Which part? That he would… The imperialist part, the sense that he sought to conquer all of Ukraine, and move on and conquer-…

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