Professor John Mearsheimer is one of the most accomplished and distinguished political scientists in the world. A leading authority in the field of international relations, he has authored several seminal books and lectured extensively around the globe (see his
This explains this whole situation better than anything I have read so far. Thank you for this. I will send it our to my friends. This explanation should be in every paper around the country. People NEED to KNOW this!
Two impeachments and 5 years of Ruling Intelligence State “Russian hoax” disinformation…
…was entirely so that they could initiate and BENEFIT from WWIII
Now they need actual WWIII deaths to cover the coming COVID-19 technology deaths from “god’s” creating essentially CONTAGIOUS airborne cancers…
They created the perfect delivery system for “public health “ medicines and in the process normalized the weaponization of the Airborne infectious COVID-19 spike Bioweapon platform…
Why does this great man repeat an obfuscation which even I can see through?
"....I remember the Cuban missile crisis very well. What happened there was that the Soviets put nuclear tipped missiles in Cuba. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The United States said that this was categorically unacceptable, because military forces from afar are not allowed in the Western Hemisphere. And because of that we got the Cuban missile crisis with the end result that those missiles were removed....."
Where I have placed the arrows, the great man should have said the crucial thing, which is, "because the US had previously placed its own missiles in Turkey."
The fact that he did not do so immediately removes him from the list of people whom I consider to be great men, so I stopped reading his spiel at that point, although from what went before, he seemed to be on the right track in his analysis.
He knows this very well and wrote and lectured about this incident. He just did not have the time to go into it in this short talk. Kennedy made a secret deal with Krustchev that the US would remove the Jupiter missile from Turkey. Kennedy, however, had to publicly lie about it. Mersheimer calls it a 'noble lie,' because it likely prevented a nuclear war between the two superpowers. Please watch this lecture by Mersheimer called "Why Leaders Lie." It is based on his book of the same title. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPe5f5dcrGE&t=2811s
He didn't have to "go into it", but he did need to mention it - as I have already said, he could have done that in a few short words - see how quickly I was able to do it.
Now if Kennedy could say that he was planning to "Smash the CIA into a thousand pieces", and that he planned to bring the Vietnam war to a close, and issue silver-backed dollars instead of worthless Federal reserve notes, then he could also have told the truth about the so called missile crisis.
And it wasn't Kennedy's lie to the American people that averted nuclear war, it was his action in removing those missiles.
And of course, Shakespeare has referred to what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive - and so for any lie that Kennedy told, he was merely getting himself even more potentially discredited, as Kruschev could simply have told the truth in some world forum such as the UN, and by using his shoe to emphasize the point.
As I said, this professor is not somebody I would ever hold in esteem, or further investigate, as even the very concept of a "noble lie" is an oxymoron.
Everything Mearsheimer said about what the U.S. did wrong is accurate. Less accurate is his assessment of Russian policy. It's not as simple as Russia minding its own business and then NATO came along to recklessly "poke the Bear". Putin really does have larger ambitions than keeping Ukraine neutral.
This explains this whole situation better than anything I have read so far. Thank you for this. I will send it our to my friends. This explanation should be in every paper around the country. People NEED to KNOW this!
President Trump was going to ruin Everything…
Two impeachments and 5 years of Ruling Intelligence State “Russian hoax” disinformation…
…was entirely so that they could initiate and BENEFIT from WWIII
Now they need actual WWIII deaths to cover the coming COVID-19 technology deaths from “god’s” creating essentially CONTAGIOUS airborne cancers…
They created the perfect delivery system for “public health “ medicines and in the process normalized the weaponization of the Airborne infectious COVID-19 spike Bioweapon platform…
Why does this great man repeat an obfuscation which even I can see through?
"....I remember the Cuban missile crisis very well. What happened there was that the Soviets put nuclear tipped missiles in Cuba. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The United States said that this was categorically unacceptable, because military forces from afar are not allowed in the Western Hemisphere. And because of that we got the Cuban missile crisis with the end result that those missiles were removed....."
Where I have placed the arrows, the great man should have said the crucial thing, which is, "because the US had previously placed its own missiles in Turkey."
The fact that he did not do so immediately removes him from the list of people whom I consider to be great men, so I stopped reading his spiel at that point, although from what went before, he seemed to be on the right track in his analysis.
He knows this very well and wrote and lectured about this incident. He just did not have the time to go into it in this short talk. Kennedy made a secret deal with Krustchev that the US would remove the Jupiter missile from Turkey. Kennedy, however, had to publicly lie about it. Mersheimer calls it a 'noble lie,' because it likely prevented a nuclear war between the two superpowers. Please watch this lecture by Mersheimer called "Why Leaders Lie." It is based on his book of the same title. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPe5f5dcrGE&t=2811s
He didn't have to "go into it", but he did need to mention it - as I have already said, he could have done that in a few short words - see how quickly I was able to do it.
Now if Kennedy could say that he was planning to "Smash the CIA into a thousand pieces", and that he planned to bring the Vietnam war to a close, and issue silver-backed dollars instead of worthless Federal reserve notes, then he could also have told the truth about the so called missile crisis.
And it wasn't Kennedy's lie to the American people that averted nuclear war, it was his action in removing those missiles.
And of course, Shakespeare has referred to what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive - and so for any lie that Kennedy told, he was merely getting himself even more potentially discredited, as Kruschev could simply have told the truth in some world forum such as the UN, and by using his shoe to emphasize the point.
As I said, this professor is not somebody I would ever hold in esteem, or further investigate, as even the very concept of a "noble lie" is an oxymoron.
Dude. Kennedy got shot.
And?
So, he had already gone too far. He didn't get away with telling those truths. Who are you to second-guess his risk assessments?
Good book, if you're interested: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/JFK-and-the-Unspeakable/James-W-Douglass/9781439193884
I can second guess his risk assessments as much, or as little, as I like.
Everything Mearsheimer said about what the U.S. did wrong is accurate. Less accurate is his assessment of Russian policy. It's not as simple as Russia minding its own business and then NATO came along to recklessly "poke the Bear". Putin really does have larger ambitions than keeping Ukraine neutral.
Wait…
…isn’t Russia the sitting rotating chair of the UN Security Council
Are you really that gullible, Vasko? Russia forever? Or is it the end of it?