# Why is Ukraine the West's Fault? Featuring John Mearsheimer **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Tags:** putin, ukraine, russia, nato, europe\ **Created:** [17 April 2024 06:23 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/why-is-ukraine-the-wests-fault-featuring-john-mearsheimer/4568 "2024-04-17T06:23:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
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Russia has declared information war on the US a long time ago, and Putin has restarted it, and now teamed up with other state actors. This isn’t over. > [@Tocqueville on the Emergence of Despotism](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/tocqueville-on-the-emergence-of-despotism/1956/15): > > I grew up in NYC in 1940s, 1950s surrounded by Red Diaper Babies whose parents were if not card-carrying members of Communist Party USA were sympathetic. What we are seeing in US today and to a lesser extent perhaps in UK is the success of Stalin’s “ideological subversion” described by KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov in 1984. [[FULL INTERVIEW with Yuri Bezmenov: The Four Stages of Ideological Subversion (1984)] ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yErKTVdETpw) Even though Soviet Union is gone, the influence operation succeeded now with … Mearsheimer is a tool in this war. --- _[View the full topic](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/why-is-ukraine-the-wests-fault-featuring-john-mearsheimer/4568)._