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"Here in the U.S., the war has also exposed the intellectual and moral bankruptcy of an ideologically diverse set of foreign-policy commentators: the “anti-imperialists” who routinely justify blatant acts of imperial conquest, and the “realists” who make arguments unmoored from reality."

This is actually a nice list of people missing the official narrative:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/09/anti-war-c...

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Based on my limited experience, major supporters of Russia invasion among US citizens are either far-right, or far-left. Horseshoe theory has never been so evident.

Many communists in Europe openly support Russia. Maybe they never got the news about 1991. Or Maybe all that talk of anti imperialism was bullshit all along

John Mearsheimer may be conservative. But he's not far right.

And Kissinger is Kissinger.

No Mearsheimer just extremely conceited to the point he refuses to admit how dead wrong he's been about this whole thing. He actually said that there was no evidence Putin was an imperialist during a debate(the audience laughed at him).

So the same reaction this audience has to the idea of evolution? You mean similar to people in this thread openly mocking the idea Ukraine couldn't have economic growth this week?

What was the audiences reaction when they found out over 1mil died by US hands in Iraq over fabricated evidence by Dick Cheney? He's been proclaimed a hero? I see how this works.

What about the murder of Epstein to hide the fact there are some high profile pedophiles in leadership positions in Washington? I bet the story that he was killed, while all those cameras malfunctioned simultaneously has been laughed at way more often. So miracles do happen?

Laughing audiences are not a measure of how true or false something is. Only how socially enforced the viewpoint is.

Mearsheimer got it right already in 2015:

"and the end result is that Ukraine is going to be wrecked"

https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1498491107902062592